Bats And The Corn-Industrial Complex

The Black Family In The Age Of Mass Incarceration, The Most Honest Channel On YouTube Started As Way To Troll Pedophiles, Win Everything You Need To Make Your Kid Brilliant, VIDEO: David Blaine Performs A Nerve-Wracking Trick For Kanye West, Brian Cranston And Many Other Stars, Kids Are Getting Turnt On Hand Sanitizer, Dwindling Bat Population Could Be Devastating For Crops And Farmers The Daily Digg Tuesday, September 15, 2015 LONG ROAD, LONG READ The Black Family In The Age Of Mass Incarceration theatlantic.com Politicians are suddenly eager to disown failed policies on American prisons, but they have failed to reckon with the history. Reconsidering Daniel Patrick Moynihan's report on "The Negro Family," 50 years later. FRUITS OF THE WEB The Most Honest Channel On YouTube Started As Way To Troll Pedophiles digg.com How food falling over, 4Chan and the incomparable weirdness of Sweden coalesced to form one of the best (and strangest) channels on the Internet. BACK TO SCHOOL STUFF WE DIGG SPONSORED Win Everything You Need To Make Your Kid Brilliant fatherly.wishpond.com If they had this stuff when you were growing up, you'd be a certified genius. Thankfully, signing up for this sweepstakes is also a pretty smart move. OH GOOD GOD, WE CAN'T WATCH... VIDEO: David Blaine Performs A Nerve-Wracking Trick For Kanye West, Brian Cranston And Many Other Stars digg.com No one should willingly smash their hand into a potential ice pick, unless they're David Blaine. DRINK YOURSELF CLEAN Kids Are Getting Turnt On Hand Sanitizer munchies.vice.com To many kids, booze is booze. If you can't get your hands on a bottle of Louis XIV as a 14-year-old, a sun-bleached bottle of Mike's Hard Lemonade found in the woods near your house will do just as well. Purell, though its marketed use is to kill germs, just sounds like a cheaper and more readily available form of hooch than, say, Smirnoff. And that's the problem: According to one report, American children are getting drunk off hand sanitizer like they never have before. TO BE REPLACED BY VAMPIRES Dwindling Bat Population Could Be Devastating For Crops And Farmers bbc.com Scientists carried out a series of experiments to assess the economic and ecological importance of the nocturnal insect-eating mammals to farmers. Bats provide a service worth an estimated $1 billion globally by controlling pests on corn crops, a study has suggested. Get more stories on Digg.com → ASHES TO ASHES ​Adam Bailey, left, looks through the still smoldering remains of his home as his father-in-law Joel Miller looks on Monday, Sept. 14, 2015, in Cobb, CA. Bailey escaped the flames with his baby Saturday, just before fire roared through the neighborhood of about two dozen homes. Two of California's fastest-burning wildfires in decades overtook several Northern California towns, killing at least one person and destroying hundreds of homes and businesses and sending thousands of residents fleeing highways lined with buildings, guardrails and cars still in flames. Credit: AP Photo/Elaine Thompson 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