Slow Your Kroll

Nick Kroll's Walk In The Park, How Is Polio Still A Thing?, The Quartz Daily Brief: Everything You Should Know About The World, In Five Minutes, The Firefighter's Workout, The Gangsters Of Ferguson, Why Your Brain Hates Slowpokes The Daily Digg Friday, March 6, 2015 SLOWING HIS KROLL Nick Kroll's Walk In The Park buzzfeed.com Comics work their whole careers to land their own successful, acclaimed, eponymous Comedy Central sketch show. But after three seasons, and with his show at its creative and commercial peak, Nick Kroll is leaving it all behind for destinations unknown — because he can. REASON TO SALK How Is Polio Still A Thing? medium.com We're so close to eradicating it, but here's the block: Superstition, suspicion — and the C.I.A. PARTNER WE DIGG SPONSORED The Quartz Daily Brief: Everything You Should Know About The World, In Five Minutes bit.ly Being a responsible, informed person doesn't have to be boring. The Quartz Daily Brief email feels like it was written by that one weird, smart friend of yours who can tell you all about the Greek financial bailout and somehow knows about a plant in Chile that eats sheep. Sign up here. FEEL THE BURN The Firefighter's Workout digg.com Working in a firehouse is like having a free gym membership, except for that whole saving lives and facing constant danger thing. BLUE ON BLACK CRIME The Gangsters Of Ferguson theatlantic.com Darren Wilson was innocent. If only the city's cops offered their own citizens the same due process he received. GOTTA GO FAST Why Your Brain Hates Slowpokes nautil.us The high speed of society has jammed your internal clock. Get more stories on Digg.com → TICKLED PINK The Smithsonian Institution Building, known as The Castle, is visible behind Mia Molnar, 6, of Tampa, Fla., who plays in the snow on the National Mall in Washington, Thursday, March 5, 2015. Credit: AP Photo/Andrew Harnik 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

The Tortoise Always Wins

Jeb In The Wilderness, Authoritarian Outfitters, Why Are Mattresses So Expensive?, VIDEO: Here's A Tortoise Chasing A Dog, The Uncertain Legal Future Of Net Neutrality, A Campaign To Put A Woman On The Twenty-Dollar Bill The Daily Digg Thursday, March 5, 2015 GREEN PARTY Jeb In The Wilderness politico.com The time Florida's Republican governor took on the biggest environmental restoration project in American history. DRESSING TO OPPRESS Authoritarian Outfitters newrepublic.com German neo-Nazis' favorite clothing brand is expanding throughout Europe. STARTUPS WE DIGG SPONSORED Why Are Mattresses So Expensive? tuftandneedle.com Mattresses are marked up 6-12 times from manufacture to point of sale. That means you're mostly paying for bad TV commercials, retail markups, sales commissions, and wholesaler's profits. Sounds like a waste of money to us. Luckily Tuft & Needle is here to fix the problem. IN DOGGED PURSUIT VIDEO: Here's A Tortoise Chasing A Dog digg.com The tortoise never stands a chance, but you have to respect the hustle. WON THE BATTLE, NOT THE WAR The Uncertain Legal Future Of Net Neutrality dailydot.com Net neutrality advocates are celebrating the Federal Communications Commission's approval of strong rules designed to protect the open Internet, but the FCC and its opponents in the cable and wireless industries are already preparing for the next step: a legal war. JACKSON WAS A NO-GOOD ANYWAYS A Campaign To Put A Woman On The Twenty-Dollar Bill newyorker.com Each of the eleven denominations in circulation, from the one-dollar bill to the ten-thousand-dollar bill, depicts a man. Barbara Ortiz Howard and Susan Ades Stone want to change that. Get more stories on Digg.com → SIXTY CANDLES Thai Buddhist monks pray and gather at Wat Dhammakaya temple in Pathum Thani province to participate in Makha Bucha Day ceremonies Wednesday, March 4, 2015. Makha Bucha, a religious holiday that marks the anniversary of Lord Buddha's mass sermon to the first 1,250 newly ordained monks 2,558 years ago. Credit: AP photo/Sakchai Lalit 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

Everyone Gets A Fish

7.3 Billion People, One Building, VIDEO: You've Been Eating Bagels Wrong Your Entire Life, Don't Get Trashed On St. Patrick's Day, The Fisherman's Dilemma, In Praise Of Greg Gutfeld, The Conservative Jon Stewart, Race To The NBA's Bottom! The Daily Digg Wednesday, March 4, 2015 CRUNCHING PEOPLE (AND NUMBERS) 7.3 Billion People, One Building waitbutwhy.com How big a building would you need to fit all the people in the world in it? It's a question that's tantalized almost no one through the ages, and today we're gonna tackle it hard. SCHMEAR CAMPAIGN VIDEO: You've Been Eating Bagels Wrong Your Entire Life digg.com Remember: the only thing that should go in the hole is more cream cheese. STARTUPS WE DIGG SPONSORED Don't Get Trashed On St. Patrick's Day flaviar.com Irish whiskey, unlike other styles, is usually distilled three times, making it one of the smoothest on the palate. From a traditional option, the Jameson 18 Year Old, to the new kid on the block, Uisce Beatha, these are the Irish whiskeys you need to have on hand this St. Patrick's Day. WILL THERE BE PLENTY OF FISH IN THE SEA? The Fisherman's Dilemma stories.californiasunday.com Off the coast of California, a radical experiment has closed hundreds of miles of ocean to fishing. Will it lead to better catches for years to come? GUT CHECK In Praise Of Greg Gutfeld, The Conservative Jon Stewart newyorker.com For more than eight years, Fox News has been broadcasting an odd and often funny 3 A.M. program called "Red Eye." Its sensibility is snarky and surreal, thanks to its host, Greg Gutfeld, who adopts a tone of half-sarcastic alarm, as if he can't decide which is more annoying: the politician he is talking about, or the fact that he has to talk about politicians. It sounds like faint praise to call "Red Eye" the funniest and most unpredictable program on cable news, but that's what it is — or, rather, that's what it was. KNICKS ARE SPRINTING FULL TILT RIGHT NOW Race To The NBA's Bottom! medium.com With draft position for the league's worst teams at stake, there's just one thing to do: Lose. And lose spectacularly! Get more stories on Digg.com → PUPS FOR PEACE A small dog peers from a car at an Ukrainian army checkpoint near Kurakhove, Ukraine, Tuesday, March 3, 2015 on a road leading to Russia-backed separatists held territory. Ukraine's president signed a decree Monday opening the way to a formal request for international peacekeepers to be stationed in eastern regions where government forces are battling Russian-backed separatists. Credit: AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda 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