Just When You Thought It Couldn't Get Any Weirder

Olympian Films Wolf Stalking Her Hotel Hallway, The Dark Power Of Fraternities, Don't You Hate Shirts?, What Happens When You Make The Internet Share A Video Game, The Rags-To-Riches Tale Of WhatsApp The Daily Digg Thursday, February 20, 2014 THE SOCHIEST MOMENT OF SOCHI Olympian Films Wolf Stalking Her Hotel Hallway digg.com Olympian Kate Hansen tweeted out a video of what appears to be a wolf trotting down her hotel hallway with the message, "I'm pretty sure this is a wolf wandering my hall in Sochi." BEST LEDE EVER, OR BEST LEDE EVER The Dark Power Of Fraternities theatlantic.com A yearlong investigation of Greek houses reveals their endemic, lurid, and sometimes tragic problems—and a sophisticated system for shifting the blame. STARTUPS WE DIGG SPONSORED Don't You Hate Shirts? bonobos.com We did too. Then we learned about Bonobos. Now we love shirts and our HR department is happy. THE THEOCRACY OF 'POKÉMON' What Happens When You Make The Internet Share A Video Game digg.com If you go to this stream you'll see a grayscale boy in a hat running in circles. What you might not realize is that you're watching quite possibly the most interesting social experiment of all time. WHAT'S COOL? PROVING EVERYONE WRONG The Rags-To-Riches Tale Of WhatsApp forbes.com Jan Koum picked a meaningful spot to sign the $19 billion deal to sell his company WhatsApp to Facebook - the office where Koum, 37, once stood in line to collect food stamps. Read more on Digg.com → MORE PROOF THE BIATHLON IS AMAZING Norway's Tiril Eckhoff shoots during the mixed biathlon relay at the 2014 Winter Olympics, Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2014, in Krasnaya Polyana, Russia. Credit: AP Photo/Lee Jin-man Digg for iPhone & iPad   •   Twitter   •   Facebook digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2014 News.me Inc. 416 West 13th Street #203, NY, NY 10014

The Hunt For The World's Weirdest Whale

The Hunt For The Sea Unicorn, Waking Up To The Issues Of Pilot Fatigue, This Is How Strong A Modern Plane Is, Dear Asus Router User: You've Been Pwned, Survey: NFL Players Don't Actually Seem To Mind If Their Teammates Are Gay The Daily Digg Tuesday, February 18, 2014 THE WORLD'S WEIRDEST WHALE The Hunt For The Sea Unicorn newscientist.com With its spiraled horn and elusive ways, the narwhal is a thing of legend. Isabelle Groc joins an expedition braving Arctic waters to meet it face to tusk. FLYING THE SLEEPY SKIES Waking Up To The Issues Of Pilot Fatigue nycaviation.com Fatigue rules and regulations in the early days of commercial aviation were simple: there were none. And the ones we have today are inadequate. MAYBE DON'T WATCH BEFORE FLYING This Is How Strong A Modern Plane Is digg.com What happens when 120 tons of landing Boeing 767 encounters severe turbulence just above the runway? You get to see the incredible strength of modern engineering. Watch the wings flex and the landing gear absorb the shock. AT LEAST THE HACKER LET YOU KNOW Dear Asus Router User: You've Been Pwned arstechnica.com Hackers expose eight-month-old Asus weakness by leaving note on victims' drives. DOES THIS COUNT AS PROGRESS? Survey: NFL Players Don't Actually Seem To Mind If Their Teammates Are Gay espn.go.com If Missouri defensive end Michael Sam is drafted in May and becomes the NFL's first openly gay player, he'll walk into a league that seems to be moving closer to acceptance but is still dealing with growing pains as it does so. Read more on Digg.com → AN URN? Construction workers install glass panels on the new European Council building in Brussels on Monday, Feb 17, 2014. The building, in the shape of an urn, will accommodate a new EU summit meeting room and a headquarters for the European Council President. Credit: AP Photo/Virginia Mayo Digg for iPhone & iPad   •   Twitter   •   Facebook digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2014 News.me Inc. 416 West 13th Street #203, NY, NY 10014

What We Mean When We Say Hello

The Original 'Robocop' Was A Christ Allegory, Debunking The Myth Of Kitty Genovese, Lessons In Ruthlessness From Frank Underwood, What We Mean When We Say Hello, How The North Ended Up On The Top Of The Map The Daily Digg Monday, February 17, 2014 ROBOCHRIST The Original 'Robocop' Was A Christ Allegory gizmodo.com The original "Robocop," released back in 1987 and directed by Paul Verhoeven, was not only one of the best science fiction films of the last three decades — or, as Tom Scocca described it on Gawker, "a brilliant comedy operating in the guise of an ultraviolent action movie" — but it was also a Christian allegory. MISREADING MURDER Debunking The Myth Of Kitty Genovese nypost.com In 1964, New York became internationally infamous as a city filled with thoughtless people who didn't care about one another; where people could watch their neighbors get stabbed on the street without lifting a finger to help, leaving them to die ­instead in a pool of their own blood. LET SLIP THE DOGS OF WAR Lessons In Ruthlessness From Frank Underwood digg.com Even if you haven't finished binge-watching season 2 yet, here's your (spoiler free) compilation of the best advice Washington's most cutthroat fictional politician has to offer. GOODBYE What We Mean When We Say Hello theatlantic.com The curious geography of American greetings. NORTH IS JUST REALLY INTO DOMINATION How The North Ended Up On The Top Of The Map america.aljazeera.com A cartographic history of what's "up." Read more on Digg.com → WHICH WAY IS UP? David Wise of the United States gets air during men's freestyle skiing half pipe training at the Rosa Khutor Extreme Park, at the 2014 Winter Olympics, Sunday, Feb. 16, 2014, in Krasnaya Polyana, Russia. Credit: AP Photo/Andy Wong Digg for iPhone & iPad   •   Twitter   •   Facebook digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2014 News.me Inc. 416 West 13th Street #203, NY, NY 10014