Cheese Shaped Western Civilization

The Sorry State Of Hitting In Modern Baseball, Cheese Changed The Course Of Western Civilization And Other Facts, The Quartz Daily Brief: Everything You Should Know About the World, in Five Minutes, What Exactly Is Neoliberalism?, Sweet Beats Made From The Sounds Of A Car Factory, The Horror Of Amazon's New Dash Button The Daily Digg Friday, April 3, 2015 SLUGGISH SLUGGING The Sorry State Of Hitting In Modern Baseball nytimes.com The question for Rob Manfred, as he begins his first season as commissioner of Major League Baseball, is whether he should find ways to legally boost offense. Many hitters would welcome a stimulus package, of sorts, in an age when every new edge seems to benefit pitchers. WHAT WE LEARNED THIS WEEK Cheese Changed The Course Of Western Civilization And Other Facts digg.com This week we learned that cheese culture shaped western civilization, wasps are no match for a shop vac and 7:00 p.m. is everyone's favorite time of day. PARTNER WE DIGG SPONSORED The Quartz Daily Brief: Everything You Should Know About the World, in Five Minutes qz.com 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 Nigerian elections and somehow knows about the existence of a dating site specifically for UFO believers. Sign up here. IT'S THE ECONOMY, SORT OF What Exactly Is Neoliberalism? dissentmagazine.org Climate change, a crippled welfare state, the 2008 financial crisis, skyrocketing income inequality, political disappointments reaching back decades, terrible superhero movies grossing billions of dollars, and Tinder—these are just a few of the sins attributed to neoliberalism. But what exactly is it? WAIT FOR THE DROP TOP Sweet Beats Made From The Sounds Of A Car Factory digg.com This is how you do branded content: make it stuff you'd like anyway. STRAIGHT FROM THE MIND OF GEORGE SAUNDERS The Horror Of Amazon's New Dash Button newyorker.com Shopping should make you feel bad, if only for a second. Pressing a little plastic button is too much fun. Get more stories on Digg.com → HOPEFULLY NOT HIS FIRST RODEO A South American cowboy known as a gaucho tries not to be thrown off a wild horse during the Criolla del Prado rodeo in Montevideo, Uruguay,Thursday, April 2, 2015. Credit: AP Photo/Matilde Campodonico 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

Welcome To The Outrage Machine

Welcome To The Outrage Machine, 'Unquestionable Greed' — The Startup CEO Who Stole $765k From His Friends, Broken Men And Their Broken System, Here's How Much Water California Needs To Save This Year, Why We Need The Veto, When A Brand's April Fools' Day Prank Is Just A Lie The Daily Digg Thursday, April 2, 2015 GOOD LUCK GETTING OUT Welcome To The Outrage Machine digg.com On this week's Reply All — how quickly, easily, and thoroughly the Internet can ruin someone.​ TAKE THE MONEY AND RUN 'Unquestionable Greed' — The Startup CEO Who Stole $765k From His Friends arstechnica.com Jon Mills had moved to California five years ago with a dream to hit it big in Silicon Valley. The company he founded, Motionloft, uses small sensors to perform analytics on in-store foot traffic. Everything worked. The company continues to succeed, and celebrity venture capitalist Mark Cuban remains its sole investor. But that success wasn't enough. PERSONNEL FOUL Broken Men And Their Broken System medium.com The NFL is doing a great disservice to its ex-players. What's worse, the situation is an avoidable one. NO MORE BATHS, CALIFORNIA Here's How Much Water California Needs To Save This Year wired.com To put it one way, roughly the same volume as 1,766 Empire State Buildings. VETO POWER POWER Why We Need The Veto politico.com How else will we know what our politicians really think? CHUTE THE SHIT When A Brand's April Fools' Day Prank Is Just A Lie dailydot.com This year marketing company Boogie tried their hand at a "prank" that wasn't very funny. The agency created a landing page and a brand design for an application called Chute that supposedly protects your phone from shattering when dropped on the ground. Get more stories on Digg.com → PARTY CRASHERS A pigeon dips its head in a water fountain as they take a bath in suburban Quezon city, east of Manila, Philippines on Wednesday, April 1, 2015. Credit: AP Photo/Aaron Favila 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 Rig Is Up

A Guide To Defeating Robotic Swarms, That Musky Smell, VIDEO: And That's How You Escape A Tow Truck, Collective Independents, Public Shamings, The Hidden Consequences Of Low Oil Prices The Daily Digg Wednesday, April 1, 2015 TRY PLAYING 'TIME CRISIS 4' A Guide To Defeating Robotic Swarms warontherocks.com While swarming provides numerous opportunities to expand U.S. combat effectiveness by enabling greater range, persistence, daring, mass, coordination, intelligence, and speed on the battlefield, it may be enemy swarms that are the real game-changer. I MUSK HAVE IT That Musky Smell todayifoundout.com Prized since ancient times for its alluring fragrance, today musk can mean any of a number of substances used to scent perfumes. However, while in our modern era most musk is synthetically produced, when it first came on the scene, musk was only found in a scrotum-like sac on the bellies of male musk deer. ♫ I WANT TO BREAK FREEEE ♫ VIDEO: And That's How You Escape A Tow Truck digg.com Getting towed sucks. So instead of following alternate side parking rules, just buy a car that can overpower a tow truck. SOLITARY CONFUNMENT Collective Independents maisonneuve.org For the first time in Canadian history, homes with a single occupant outnumber those with nuclear families. On the new domestic frontier. PRIDE GOETH BEFORE JAIL TIME Public Shamings themarshallproject.org Why judges sometimes opt for sandwich boards, chicken suits, and other embarrassing punishments. THE RIG IS UP The Hidden Consequences Of Low Oil Prices theatlantic.com From Russia to your local gas station, the consequences of low fuel prices are clear. But the consequences of those consequences are less apparent. Get more stories on Digg.com → GOTTA HAND IT TO HER Faith Lennox, 7, left, shows her mother Nicole her newly 3-D printed hand at the Build it Workspace in Los Alamitos, Calif., on Tuesday, March 31, 2015. Build It Workspace is a 3-D printer studio that teaches people to use high-tech printers and provides access to them for projects. Faith's new hand is the result of an emerging technology that is revolutionizing prosthetics, said Build It's Mark Lengsfeld, especially for children like Faith, who quickly outgrow expensive prosthetic limbs and have trouble even using them because of their size and weight. Credit: AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes 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