'Star Wars' Tanks Are Dumb

Tanks In 'Star Wars' Make No Sense And Other Facts, What Burden?, How Do You Save Rhinos From Extinction? Mail Them To A Better Place, What We Owe The 'MythBusters', I Replaced All My Coffee With Weed K-Cups, How Tech Visionaries Became The New Gordon Gekkos The Daily Digg Friday, November 6, 2015 WHAT WE LEARNED THIS WEEK Tanks In 'Star Wars' Make No Sense And Other Facts digg.com ​​Welcome to What We Learned This Week, a digest of the most curiously important facts from the past few days. This week: why the AT-AT is bad, a huge crack grows in Wyoming and welding wood. THE UNBEARABLE WHITENESS OF BEING What Burden? thewalrus.ca Being a white man means never having to speak for anybody but yourself. DIGG DIALOG How Do You Save Rhinos From Extinction? Mail Them To A Better Place digg.com Years of poaching have pushed Africa's Black Rhinos to the edge of extinction. A determined conservationist aims to reverse that- one 3,000-pound airmail delivery at a time. Mark Adams wrote about the project and will be here to talk about it at 12pm EST. MYTH BUSTED, SCIENCE STRENGTHENED What We Owe The 'MythBusters' nytimes.com Americans have worried about the state of science literacy in our country since the days of Sputnik. Educators who want to improve our prospects in this field would do well to take a few pages from the "MythBusters" handbook. ALMOST WENT FULL DOWD I Replaced All My Coffee With Weed K-Cups 7deadlymag.com "I figured it would be just like snacking on an brownie with my daily cup of Joe, but in liquid form. It was not. What happened turned out to be the weirdest day of my life." CONSPICUOUS DISRUPTION How Tech Visionaries Became The New Gordon Gekkos digg.com It's difficult to overstate the impact someone like Steve Jobs has had on our world. After watching the entire cinematic sub-genre of movies about him, it's clear that this still is Steve Jobs' world; he was just condescending enough to let all of us inhabit it. Get more stories on Digg.com THEY'RE ON THE BOARD ​Men engaged to change match scores sit inside a giant scoreboard during a warm up match between Zimbabwe and Bangladesh Cricket Board XI in Fatullah, Bangladesh, Thursday, Nov. 5, 2015. Credit: AP Photo/Bernat Armangue Digg iOS app   •   Digg Android app Twitter   •   Facebook   •   Tumblr   •   YouTube Advertise on Digg digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2015 News.me Inc. 29 Little West 12th Street, NY, NY 10014