Friday, July 1, 2016

This Email Goes To Eleven

Your Car's LED Daytime Running Lights Are Dangerous And Other Facts
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Morning · Fri, Jul 01
WHAT WE LEARNED THIS WEEK
WHAT WE LEARNED THIS WEEK
Your Car's LED Daytime Running Lights Are Dangerous 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: LED daytime running lights are bad, how architecture catches thieves and why you shouldn't hit the trails with a bike from Walmart.
WHAT'S HAPPENING
Austria's Highest Court Orders Repeat Of Presidential Runoff
Alleged Planner Behind Istanbul Airport Bombing Named
Joe Biden Says Sanders Will Endorse Clinton
ICYMI: Adnan Syed — Of 'Serial' — Granted A New Trial
CARRY-ONS WE DIGG | SPONSORED
A Smarter Carry-On For High-Tech Travelers
geniuspack.com
Genius Pack's luggage has integrated charging and compression technology so that you can stay connected and pack what you need while taking up less room.
DON'T BE A BAD SPORT
WITH A PADDLE, WITHOUT A CLUE
Chasing Niagara Falls In A Kayak
sports.vice.com
In 2011, pro kayaker Rafa Ortiz set himself an ambitious, maybe crazy goal: to paddle off Niagara Falls, a 150-foot drop.
PROBABLY ALL THE BLOWS TO THE HEAD?
Why Are So Many MMA Fighters Truthers, Conspiracists, And Just Plain Weird?
deadspin.com
Take Ronda Rousey, who in 2013 took a break from dominating the women's bantamweight division to find out the truth about the Sandy Hook massacre. Or Tim Kennedy, the UFC middleweight/Army Ranger who appears on Alex Jones and has the beliefs of a John Birch Society conspiracist who was cryogenically frozen and revived in the late 2000s.
'BLOCKS 4 TOTS'
WATCH: Just A Bunch Of NBA Players Wrecking Kids At Their Basketball Camps
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Now that the NBA season is officially over, it's time for America's greatest professional basketball players to give back to their communities. And by "give back," we mean block the heck out of some middle schoolers.
THIS ONE GOES TO ELEVEN
RUMBLE IN THE CONCRETE JUNGLE
It's Gonna Get Loud: Inside Tokyo's Underground Noise Scene
huckmagazine.com
The late 70's and early 80's saw an explosive new scene emerge in Japan: noise. Photographer Gin Satoh was there to record the violence and volume; now for the first time his photos are being exhibited outside Japan.
SCHOOL HOUSE METAL
The Story Of The World's Most Brutal Middle-School Metal Band
vice.com
The new documentary "Breaking A Monster" paints an absorbing portrait of Unlock the Truth, three thoroughly normal adolescent kids from Flatbush, Brooklyn who happen to confident, disciplined, and extremely impressive metal musicians.
DARK LORDS
Punks, Goths, Disco Queens, Rockers And Ravers: Portraits Of UK Nightlife
medium.com
Four decades of images capturing alternative London's unique counter-cultural history.
BEFORE YOU GO
AIRBRUSHING
A Very Cool Timelapse Captures The Painting Of An Airplane Over 15 Days
digg.com
This is the Emirates Airbus A380, the world's largest commercial aircraft. It is so large that the entire repainting process took 34 professionals and nearly 15 days to complete, setting a company record.
That's it! Hope your weekend gets off to a flying start.