Flower Power

What Is The Trump Endgame?, It's Tough Being A Billionaire, And Other News, Send Better Email, The Oliver Sacks Reading List, The Solar Sunflower: Harnessing The Power Of 5,000 Suns, The Secret History Of 'Y'all' The Daily Digg Monday, August 31, 2015 MAKING AMERICA GREAT AGAIN? What Is The Trump Endgame? nymag.com How the Donald will play a huge — yuuuge — role in deciding the next president. WHAT YOU MISSED THIS WEEKEND It's Tough Being A Billionaire, And Other News digg.com Mo' money is indeed a recipe for mo' problems, supermarkets are charging you a lot mo' money for organic produce for no reason, and Kanye had mo' fun than ever at the VMAs. PRODUCTS WE DIGG SPONSORED Send Better Email mailchimp.com Email marketing just got easier. MailChimp allows you to easily design, customize and send beautiful email newsletters. HIS WORDS LIVE ON The Oliver Sacks Reading List theatlantic.com Writer and neurologist Oliver Sacks passed away Sunday morning — he leaves behind a body of work that reveals a lifetime of asking difficult questions with empathy. FLOWER POWERED The Solar Sunflower: Harnessing The Power Of 5,000 Suns arstechnica.com The two constituent technologies of the Solar Sunflower — concentrated solar thermal power and photovoltaic solar power — are both very well known and understood at this point, and not at all exciting. What's special about the Sunflower, however, is that it combines both of the technologies together in a novel fashion to attain much higher total efficiency. SECRET LANGUAGE The Secret History Of 'Y'all' salon.com The phrase "y'all" might not simply be the shortened form of "you all" — but something far more complex. Get more stories on Digg.com → ROCKET MAN ​Preparations for launching Russian Soyuz TMA-18M spaceship that will carry a new crew to the International Space Station, ISS, are under way in an assembly shop in Russian leased Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, Sunday, Aug. 30, 2015. Start of the new Soyuz mission is scheduled on Wednesday, Sept. 28. The Russian rocket will carry Kazakhstan's cosmonaut Aydyn Aimbetov, Russian cosmonaut Sergei Volkov and De Credit: AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky 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

Netflix And Chill

You Don't Need To Drink So Much Water And Other Facts, Mr. Cook Goes To Washington, These People Willingly Jump Out Of Planes Half-Naked, WATCH: Ruptured Hydrant And High Voltage Line Cause Bizarre Explosions In Hollywood, How 'Netflix And Chill' Became Teen Slang For Having Sex, Your Fitness Community Sickens Me The Daily Digg Friday, August 28, 2015 WHAT WE LEARNED THIS WEEK You Don't Need To Drink So Much Water And Other Facts digg.com This week we learned that it's okay to be a little thirsty, why we must go back to the Moon and that you're a dad. Congrats! APPLE VERSUS DC Mr. Cook Goes To Washington politico.com Steve Jobs famously disdained DC. Tim Cook's quietly taking it on. UNDIES WE DIGG SPONSORED These People Willingly Jump Out Of Planes Half-Naked meundies.com MeUndies is highlighting people who live boldly. In this installment, skydiving instructor Clinton Moore, who was born to be in the sky — so much that he'll do it in just his underwear. NO INJURIES WATCH: Ruptured Hydrant And High Voltage Line Cause Bizarre Explosions In Hollywood digg.com Early this morning a woman lost control of her car and hit a fire hydrant. The resulting geyser made contact with power lines above it, creating the circumstances for this unusual explosion. LIKE PARKING, OR GOING TO THE MOVIES How 'Netflix And Chill' Became Teen Slang For Having Sex fusion.net It's a phrase that means, roughly, "hooking up." But it's a lot more complicated than that. "Netflix and chill" is a classic case of social media-fueled semantic drift LOSING YOUR SOUL AT SOULCYCLE Your Fitness Community Sickens Me gawker.com SoulCycle. A room full of stationary bikes improbably masquerading as a lifestyle. Get more stories on Digg.com → EL VIAJE MISTERIOSO DE NUESTRO JOMER A protester dressed as the cartoon character Homer Simpson steps between demonstrators and police, in an attempt to stop clashes at the end of a student march in Santiago, Chile, Thursday, Aug. 27, 2015.​ Credit: AP Photo/Luis Hidalgo 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

Put On Your Moon Boots

The Best Articles Of The Week: A Facebook Suicide And The Suicide Girls, How We Plan On Colonizing The Moon, You'll Be Glowing In This Jacket — Literally, The Summer of Censors, VIDEO: Liquids Are Good For Hydration — And Awesome Science Tricks, Mobile Banking Could Take Over The Developing World The Daily Digg Thursday, August 27, 2015 THE LONG-READER'S DIGEST The Best Articles Of The Week: A Facebook Suicide And The Suicide Girls digg.com A troubled veteran takes his life live on Facebook, a history of the Suicide Girls, and the teens behind the Slender Man stabbing. HECKUVA COMMUTE How We Plan On Colonizing The Moon macleans.ca The Moon landing was a giant leap. The next leap is staying there. JACKETS WE DIGG SPONSORED You'll Be Glowing In This Jacket — Literally betabrand.com Stand out with Betabrand's hyper-reflective Flashback Photobomber Hoodie. With its glass nanosphere coating, there's no way you'll fall into the background. CLEANED UP REAL NICE The Summer of Censors medium.com From Jane's Addiction to Body Count, music censorship swelled in the early 1990s A MAGICIAN NEVER SPILLS HIS SECRETS VIDEO: Liquids Are Good For Hydration — And Awesome Science Tricks digg.com YouTuber brusspup demonstrates that high-fructose corn syrup, while bad for you, is good for cool science tricks. And we still can't figure out what's going on with the last one. THE WORLD'S BANK Mobile Banking Could Take Over The Developing World buzzfeed.com A new Brookings Institution report says financial tech is helping to close the economic gender gap and connect marginalized communities that lack access to banks. Get more stories on Digg.com → A BLOOD-RED BATH Two women lie in a puddle of squashed tomatoes during the annual "tomatina" tomato fight fiesta, in the village of Bunol, 50 kilometers outside Valencia, Spain, Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2015. Credit: AP Photo/Alberto Saiz 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

Have You Been A Dad This Whole Time?

Unearthing The Lost World Of Dimetrodon — Ancestor To The Dinosaurs, Have You Been A Dad This Whole Time?, Blue Apron Delivery > Lukewarm Takeout, New York Has A Problem With Nipples, Behind The Scenes Of An Escape Room, The Growing Global Battle Against Ticks The Daily Digg Wednesday, August 26, 2015 OLDER THAN DIRT Unearthing The Lost World Of Dimetrodon — Ancestor To The Dinosaurs texasobserver.org Sixty million years before the first dinosaur, it slept, basked, chased and killed. It breathed. It was alive. IT'S A DAD, DAD, DAD, DAD WORLD Have You Been A Dad This Whole Time? digg.com In his Product Hunt LIVE bio, Chris Sacca describes himself as both "father" and "dad." Which got us thinking: is there a difference between the two? MEALS WE DIGG SPONSORED Blue Apron Delivery > Lukewarm Takeout thetestkitchen.com Why bother with the hassle of grocery shopping? With Blue Apron you get the perfect amount of the freshest ingredients delivered right to your door. Easy shopping, easy recipes and easy cooking — it really doesn't get much better than this. Oh wait, it does — get your first 2 meals free! WHAT WE'RE READING IN POLITICS THIS WEEK New York Has A Problem With Nipples digg.com Welcome to "The Enthusiasm Gap," a weekly digest that aims to bridge the gap between interest and enthusiasm in politics by bringing you the best political and electoral writing of the week.​ LOCKED IN Behind The Scenes Of An Escape Room makezine.com Escape rooms have become a popular tourist attraction, team-building activity, and general form of entertainment in the U.S., powered not only by the players who can't get enough of the real-life puzzles, but also by the makers, who pour creativity, technology, and love into every design. TIME IS TICKING The Growing Global Battle Against Ticks nature.com Scientists have no shortage of ideas about how to stop tick-borne illnesses. What is holding them back? Get more stories on Digg.com → OUT IN FORCE Tens of thousands of protestors from Gujarat's Patel community participate in a rally in Ahmadabad, India, Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2015. The members of the community from this western Indian state are demanding affirmative action for better access to education and employment.​ Credit: AP Photo/Ajit Solanki 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