Less Is Snore

Can A Little Calculus Make A Total Novice Into A Gambling Pro?, How We Could Evolve To Need Less Sleep, How To Get The Best Sleep Ever, Make Better Steak By Listening To It, How Thalidomide Went From Medical Disaster To Miraculous Cancer Treatment, WATCH: Turning A 700-Year-Old Cave Dwelling Into A Dream Home The Daily Digg Tuesday, January 19, 2016 DIGG DIALOG Can A Little Calculus Make A Total Novice Into A Gambling Pro? digg.com Mental Floss editor-at-large Nick Greene lacks every quality required of good poker players, but with the help of an MIT graduate-level course he decided to tackle the tables at Atlantic City. Read his story and talk to him today at 2pm EST. Leave your comments now! LESS IS SNORE How We Could Evolve To Need Less Sleep motherboard.vice.com Forget the classic model of a bed, a rectangular mattress and four legs, because it could soon be history. Now imagine sleeping in a bubble-shaped pod. PRODUCTS WE DIGG SPONSORED How To Get The Best Sleep Ever digg.com Hint: it's not repeatedly hitting the snooze button. SIZZLE REEL COOKING Make Better Steak By Listening To It digg.com In cooking, sound is the forgotten sense. But the sizzle a piece of meat makes when it hits a hot pan informs you that a vital (and delicious) chemical reaction is taking place. UNEXPECTED RETURNS How Thalidomide Went From Medical Disaster To Miraculous Cancer Treatment atlasobscura.com Thalidomide's legacy goes far beyond disaster. Despite ushering in much medical terror in its heyday, the drug has resurfaced in unexpected ways in recent years. A LITERAL MAN CAVE WATCH: Turning A 700-Year-Old Cave Dwelling Into A Dream Home digg.com Real-life caveman Angelo Mastropietro has made his hermit dream a reality — by spending over $230,000 turning a 700-year-old cave, carved into a 250 million-year-old cliff, into his dream home. Get more stories on Digg.com REMEMBERING DR. KING Doris Gray sits with a program during the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. holiday commemorative service at Ebenezer Baptist Church where King preached, Monday, Jan. 18, 2016, in Atlanta. Credit: AP Photo/David Goldman Digg iOS app   •   Digg Android app Twitter   •   Facebook   •   Tumblr   •   YouTube Advertise on Digg digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2016 Digg Inc. 50 Eldridge St, NY, NY 10002