Not His First Rodeo

How Police Harassment At Methadone Clinics Makes Quitting Heroin Even Harder, Why Do My Viral Videos Keep Ending With 9/11 Footage?, Waitin' On Sage, The Upside Of Waiting In Line, Working As A Night Guard Rules And Other Facts From This Week, The Time Everyone 'Corrected' The World's Smartest Woman The Daily Digg Friday, February 20, 2015 SMACK AND GRAB How Police Harassment At Methadone Clinics Makes Quitting Heroin Even Harder buzzfeed.com With heroin addiction skyrocketing, methadone remains the gold standard for narcotics dependence treatment. Yet cops nationwide target heavily regulated methadone clinics to turn vulnerable addicts into informants, with little public outcry, reaffirming the medicine's enduring, deadly stigma. DISTURBING AND POTENTIALLY OFFENSIVE Why Do My Viral Videos Keep Ending With 9/11 Footage? digg.com 2015 has been a boon for the "unexpected thug life" video meme. Now formula has developed a spinoff whose implication on race and current events are just as muddled, and the community around it is growing at an alarming rate. THIS ISN'T HIS FIRST RODEO Waitin' On Sage stories.californiasunday.com On the road and in the dirt with Sage Kimzey, the 20-year-old king of rodeo. A NEW VIEW ON THE QUEUE The Upside Of Waiting In Line nytimes.com Waiting in line got a bad rap as an ever-present part of the Communist Soviet Union. It could turn out to be a big part of America's urban future, because some lines are actually useful. WHAT WE LEARNED THIS WEEK Working As A Night Guard Rules And Other Facts From This Week digg.com This week we learned working the night shift a museum isn't as bad as Ben Stiller makes it out to be, scientists want to regrow foreskins like salamander legs, and a nice man wants you to drink from a fake baby's head. BIRTH OF THE MANSPLAIN The Time Everyone 'Corrected' The World's Smartest Woman priceonomics.com When vos Savant politely responded to a reader's inquiry on the Monty Hall Problem, a then-relatively-unknown probability puzzle, she never could've imagined what would unfold: though her answer was correct, she received over 10,000 letters, many from noted scholars and Ph.Ds, informing her that she was a hare-brained idiot. Get more stories on Digg.com → NOT A COKE AD Two polar bear cubs follow their mother as they venture outside their enclosures for the first time since they were born at Ouwehands Zoo in Rhenen, Netherlands, Thursday, Feb. 19, 2015. Credit: AP Photo/Peter Dejong Digg iOS app   •   Digg Android app Twitter   •   Facebook   •   Tumblr   •   YouTube Advertise on Digg digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2015 News.me Inc. 416 West 13th Street #203, NY, NY 10014