The Doomsday Cult Of Bitcoin

The Doomsday Cult Of Bitcoin, The Ten Habits Of Highly Unflabby People, The DIY Engineer Who Built A Nuclear Reactor In His Basement, A Map Of China, By Stereotype, What Does The Shape And Color Of Your Poop Mean? The Daily Digg Wednesday, March 5, 2014 IT'S OVER The Doomsday Cult Of Bitcoin nymag.com Proselytizing is a psychologically normal response for prophetic groups whose central predictions fail to come true. And today, you can see something similar going on with another group of failing zealots. I'm talking about the cult of Bitcoin. STAND UP The Ten Habits Of Highly Unflabby People gq.com So you want to keep an eye on the old waistline, but you hate diets. Join the club. Rather than give you recipes for "yummy" quinoa-kelp granola, we suggest following these simple rules, rituals, and metabolic sleights of hand. DISRUPTING NUCLEAR ENERGY The DIY Engineer Who Built A Nuclear Reactor In His Basement digg.com Doug Coulter used to build signal processing and radio gadgets for our favorite three-lettered intelligence agencies, but for the past decade or so, Doug's chosen to explore his engineering interests in the isolated backwoods of Virginia. 'EATS MONKEYS' A Map Of China, By Stereotype foreignpolicy.com Auto-complete results by the country's largest search engine shed light on how Chinese view one another. PANTONE FOR POOP What Does The Shape And Color Of Your Poop Mean? lifehacker.com The color of your poop does mean something, but often times it has more to do with what you eat than what horrible things could be happening in your body. Read more on Digg.com → TOP SELFIE A Royal Danish Air Force F-16 pilot snaps a selfie while firing an AIM-9L/M Sidewinder missile. Credit: Royal Danish Air Force Digg for iPhone & iPad   •   Twitter   •   Facebook digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2014 News.me Inc. 416 West 13th Street #203, NY, NY 10014

Rob Ford's Surprise Roast

Putin Has No Idea What He Wants In Ukraine, My (Brief) Detention By Iran's Morality Police, Here Is Rob Ford's Brutal 'Kimmel' Interview, Giant Virus Resurrected From 30,000-Year-Old Ice, How Does A Snake Eat A Crocodile? The Daily Digg Tuesday, March 4, 2014 BORED AFTER THE OLYMPICS Putin Has No Idea What He Wants In Ukraine newrepublic.com Over the last few days, I have carefully read all the statements made by Russian officials; I've spoken with many of them. I've heard dozens of explanations of Russia's actions in the Crimea: the defense of military bases, the defense of Russian citizens, reacting to an untrustworthy new government in Kiev. And yet I couldn't get a clear answer to the simple question of "why?" I SHOULD HAVE RAN My (Brief) Detention By Iran's Morality Police npr.org My introduction to the morality squad began with shouts and threats and ended with fruit juice and a hug from a lady cop in a black chador that covered bleached blonde hair and a snug red leather jacket. CRACK UNDER THE STRAIN Here Is Rob Ford's Brutal 'Kimmel' Interview digg.com Everyone's favorite crack-smoking-hard-drinking-body-slamming-reggae-dancing-football-playing mayor, Rob Ford, was a guest on "Jimmy Kimmel Live" Monday night and the host did not let him off easy. Why a man who seems to sweat so easily put himself in the hot seat, we'll probably never know. But here, in four parts, are the brutal consequences of that decision. SCIENCE, WHAT HAVE YOU DONE? Giant Virus Resurrected From 30,000-Year-Old Ice nature.com In what seems like a plot straight out of a low-budget science-fiction film, scientists have revived a giant virus that was buried in Siberian ice for 30,000 years — and it is still infectious. SOUNDS LIKE A CHILDREN'S BOOK GONE WRONG How Does A Snake Eat A Crocodile? bbc.com Here's how a snake manages to put down and consume something as large as a crocodile. Read more on Digg.com → ARE THOSE PLATES? Performers from the Sao Clemente samba school parade during carnival celebrations at the Sambadrome in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Monday, March 3, 2014. Credit: AP Photo/Felipe Dana Digg for iPhone & iPad   •   Twitter   •   Facebook digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2014 News.me Inc. 416 West 13th Street #203, NY, NY 10014

The Housing Market With Nowhere To Go

Why The Crimean War Is Not A New Cold War, The Housing Market With Nowhere To Go, The 86th Oscars In Under 2 Minutes, How Our 1,000-Year-Old Math Curriculum Cheats America's Kids, Inside The Billion-Dollar Hacker Club The Daily Digg Monday, March 3, 2014 MISLEADING METAPHORS Why The Crimean War Is Not A New Cold War ricknoack.com References to the Cold War have flourished in official statements and newspaper headlines throughout the weekend. However, these comparisons are misleading. BUT UP The Housing Market With Nowhere To Go bits.blogs.nytimes.com Not long ago the pink house at 1829 Church Street, in the Glen Park neighborhood here, hit the market for $895,000. It sold for $1.425 million — $530,000 over the asking price — in less than two weeks. POOR LEO The 86th Oscars In Under 2 Minutes digg.com If you don't think the Oscars are a big deal, then maybe you haven't properly assessed the "Gravity" of the situation. NOBODY FALLS IN LOVE WITH MULTIPLICATION How Our 1,000-Year-Old Math Curriculum Cheats America's Kids latimes.com By hiding math's great masterpieces from students' view, we deny them the beauty of the subject. THE w00w00 MAFIA Inside The Billion-Dollar Hacker Club techcrunch.com "Everyone talks about the PayPal mafia, but nobody talks about the w00w00 mafia," says a person familiar with the group, comparing the impact its participants have made on the tech industry to the much-publicised successes of ex-PayPal employees and founders. Read more on Digg.com → THAT POOR SUIT "The Tonight Show" host Jimmy Fallon, center, exits the water during the Chicago Polar Plunge, Sunday, March 2, 2014, in Chicago. Fallon joined Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel in the event. Credit: AP Photo/Andrew A. Nelles Digg for iPhone & iPad   •   Twitter   •   Facebook digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2014 News.me Inc. 416 West 13th Street #203, NY, NY 10014