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THEN AGAIN, THE ACADEMY HATES NETFLIX...

Amy Adams Probably Will Win Her Oscar For 'Hillbilly Elegy' And That's A Damn Shame

0 diggs Salon Entertainment Culture Movies

Knowing the Academy, Ron Howard's Netflix adaptation of J.D. Vance's facile "culture in crisis" book is a sure bet.

UNACCEPTABLE

Man Receives Citation, Shows What Seems To Be Pretty Clear Police Entrapment

29 diggs Law Video

This was done on a Sunday during church hours in an area horrible for visibility of pedestrians.

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SOMETIMES GEESE ARE GOOD

Don't Mess With Geese Unless You're Willing To Pay The Price

1 digg rumble.com Animals Video Funny

One young woman learns this lesson the hard way.

SECRET'S OUT

Trump Removes Secret Service Director Amid 'Near-Systematic Purge' Of Agency

0 diggs theguardian.com News Politics Donald Trump

Randolph Alles says he was not fired, describing the shift as part of an "orderly transition in leadership" across homeland security.

TODAY'S BEST SHORT

Climate Change Has Destroyed Agriculture, And The Final Remaining Avocado Might Fetch A Pretty Penny

0 diggs Vimeo Short Film Video Climate Change Fiction

Directors Trevor Rothman and Alex Kugelman knocked it out of the park with this short, employee an uneasy combination of absurdity and dread. We can only hope that "The Last Ripe Hass" never mirrors real life too accurately.

INFLUENCE IN THE LONG RUN

Why Car Manufacturers Spend Millions On Concept Cars They Often Don't End Up Making

0 diggs Cars Video Business

Concept cars are often associated with outrageous designs that you rarely see in the actual models produced by automakers. Why is it then that companies still insist on making them?

'THE SAD REALITY OF CLIMATE CHANGE'

The Disturbing Walrus Scene In 'Our Planet'

0 diggs The Atlantic TV Nature

A shocking sequence shows the huge mammals scaling steep cliffs, then falling to their death.

PRICE SHOCK

The Absurdly High Cost Of Insulin, Explained

2 diggs vox.com Health

Cigna, a major insurer, is capping monthly insulin costs at $25. It’s a Band-Aid on a much bigger problem.

FRIENDLY PUNCHES

A Kangaroo Joey Tusslin' With A Dog Is The Cutest Thing You'll Watch Today

3 diggs Animals Video

Of course, it's cute now, but once that 'roo is fully grown, a kick from those hind legs will probably be the last thing the dog sees.

LET IT FLOW THROUGH YOU, BRO

The Dark Power Of 'Is This Guy Bothering You?'

0 diggs melmagazine.com Human Nature Sex Relationships Gender Language

"Is this guy bothering you?" may well be the most storied move in pickup culture, far predating whatever some dude in a fedora taught you about "negging." When it works, you've become an instant hero. When it doesn't, oh boy is it ever a mess.

THE TIMES THEY ARE A CHANGIN'

At Cosmopolitan Magazine, Data Is the New Sex

0 diggs The New York Times Media Gender

Jessica Pels, the editor, is trying to save the magazine from the jaws of Instagram.

FROM THE DIGG STORE

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WHO, US?

America Used To Have An Overseas Empire. What Happened To It?

3 diggs New York Magazine World

"One of the truly distinctive features of the United States' empire is how persistently ignored it has been."

MAY EXPERIENCE HAIR LOSS

Guy Tries The 'One-Punch Man' Workout, Gets Pretty Darn Good Results In Only 30 Days

7 diggs Anime Health Video

Inspired by the famous anime, investor Sean Seah decided to give the workout a go in real life and the results were anything but fictional.

START THINGS OFF WITH A BANG

Dad's Plan To Celebrate Son's Birthday With Confetti Backfires Horribly

4 diggs Funny Fail Video

Karma works in this world in the strangest ways.

IF EGG-BEATERS COULD FLY

After More Than A Century, The Cyclocopter Is Making A Comeback

0 diggs Popular Mechanics Aviation Technology

When the flying car finally glides into our lives, it will not have jets or rotors, but paddlewheels — at least according to Russian engineers.

WHAT IS FROZEN MAY NEVER DIE

If Mars Had Water, Where Did It Go?

0 diggs Gizmodo Space Science

By what majestic geological processes do massive bodies of space-liquid just disappear?

GREAT CAMERA WORK, TOO

This Controlled Detonation Of River Ice Is Unexpectedly Spectacular

5 diggs Video

Authorities in China blew up ice on the Amur River to help prevent spring flooding, and it looked absolutely awesome.

COLD CUTS

Researchers At This Base In Antarctica Eat Better Than You Do

9 diggs atlasobscura.com Food World

And the chef does it with just one food shipment a year.

FLIP IT AND REVERSE IT

She Lived For 99 Years With Organs In All The Wrong Places And Never Knew It

1 digg CNN Health

A condition called situs inversus with levocardia, along with a host of other weird but wonderful abnormalities, made Rose Marie Bentley a sort of medical unicorn.

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IS IT FLUBBER?

Scientists Find A New Phase Of Matter That's Solid And Liquid At The Same Time

2 diggs National Geographic Science

"It would be like holding a sponge filled with water that starts dripping out, except the sponge is also made of water."

A MEATY SOLUTION

Guys Figure Out A Brilliant Hack To Get Free Food From A McDonald's POS Machine

7 diggs How-To Video

Of course, now they have 10 patty-less buns to deal with, but it was all worth it for that feeling of outsmarting The Man.

NO MORE SMOOTH SAILING FROM HERE

Stanford Expels Student Admitted With Falsified Sailing Credentials

0 diggs stanforddaily.com Education

No other enrolled or admitted students are known to be associated with the admissions scandal.

GOOD QUESTION

How Should I Handle My Coworker Getting Engaged To My Ex, And Other Advice Column Questions

3 diggs Good Question

A roundup of the most interesting, thought-provoking and surprising questions that our favorite columnists addressed in recent days.

OUCH

A Vet Removing A Rock Trapped In An Axolotl's Throat Is Grossly Satisfying

1 digg Gross Video

After this slippery one made the mistake of trying to swallow a relatively large rock, a vet had to sedate the creature and fish it out.

THE LANNISTERS ARE NOT GOOD PEOPLE

Power Ranking The Top 25 Villains In 'Game of Thrones' History

2 diggs theringer.com Game Of Thrones TV

The Night King may be on the verge of annihilating the living — but entering Season 8, he has some ground to make up on our list of the best villains in the land of ice and fire.

'FROZEN IN TIME'

Chile's Wild Pirate Island

2 diggs BBC Curious World

This small and remote isle has played host to buccaneers, explorers, shipwrecks and one very famous whale.

WE CAN'T LOOK AWAY

'Wendy Williams Except There's No Talking' Is The Perfect Surreal Internet Video

2 diggs Internet Video

You haven't experienced discomfort until you've watched clips from "The Wendy Williams Show" with no music or words.

GULLIVER'S TRAVAILS

The End Of Satire

1 digg The New York Times Culture

The toxic disinformation of social media has rendered traditional forms of humor quaint and futile.

MIND THE GAP

How Much Longer Women Live Than Men Around The World, Visualized

1 digg Data Viz Health World

Women, in general, tend to outlive men, but depending on the country, the gap can be as small as two years and as large as 14 years.

GOD IS A WOMAN

Universe Takes A Clear Side In A Spousal Argument

2 diggs Fail Funny Video

Leaving the house to take a breather after an argument with his wife, this man was presented with some instant karma.

GANG'S ALL HERE

I Tried Skype's New 50-Person Video Calling Feature, My Personal Hell

1 digg Motherboard Internet

Skype's conferencing feature now allows double the participants, so I tested it out.

'PRIVILEGED'

NBA Player Kyle Korver On Racial Injustice And Realizing His Privilege

2 diggs theplayerstribune.com Personal Essay Race

Writing in The Players' Tribune, the Utah Jazz's Kyle Korver reflects on the Thabo Sefolosha incident, the racist treatment of Russell Westbrook and his role and duty as a white NBA player.

WORD? WORD.

Have Your Brain's Language Centers Blown Apart By The 2018 Scrabble Championship

1 digg Toys Video Language Long Views Curious

Nigel Richards and Joel Sherman have much better vocabularies than you or I or anyone else you've probably ever met.

SHAKER HEIGHTS AND PARMA

A Tale Of Two Suburbs

5 diggs fivethirtyeight.com Politics Real Estate Long Reads

White Democrats' culture clash has been long in the making.

A LOST WAGER

Ghostly Photos Of An Empty Atlantic City

8 diggs theguardian.com Photos Cities

When Trump won the election, photographer Brian Rose made straight for the gambling town — to show the reality behind his billionaire boasts. The broken city he captured speaks volumes about today's America.

WHY...

This Is One Of The More Inexplicable Soccer Fails We've Ever Seen

5 diggs Sports Video

PSG tied Strasbourg 2-2 in their Ligue 1 match on Sunday, but they probably should have won, if not for this mind-numbingly weird play from Jean-Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting.

'A RACE TO THE BOTTOM'

Who Pays The Price For Selling $10 Bills For $5?

7 diggs theengineeringmanager.com Business

Something doesn't seem quite right, does it? Well, despite the absurdity of this situation, it isn't too far from the truth for the world of tech unicorns.

A TERRIBLE WAY TO GO

This Video Of Antlions Trapping And Attacking A Beetle Is Mildly Horrific

2 diggs Nature Horror Video

The larvae of antlions, a species of fly, make for aggressive, well-adapted predators.

50 SHADES OF HADER

Bill Hader Is Not Your Clown

12 diggs Esquire Culture TV

The former SNL star is much more serious than you'd think. Season Two of his Emmy-winning HBO series "Barry" proves how dark and deep the writer and actor can really get.

HUBRIF GOETH BEFORE THE FALL

How I Lost $10K Building The Netflix For African Short Films

1 digg failory.com Business

"Even though our goal was noble and our market was a niche, it was just too small."

REALITY TRAMPLES, AND THEN BITES

Suspected Poacher Gets Trampled To Death By Elephant Then Eaten By A Pride of Lions

7 diggs VICE News

Only the man's skull and his pants were retrieved by rangers at South Africa's Kruger National Park.

FULLY OUT IN THE OPEN

These Radio Stations For Spy Communications Are Hiding In Plain Sight

1 digg Warfare Video

Spies don't care if you stumble across these "number stations" because there is no way you would be able to decode their messages.

DIGG GIVEAWAYS

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Want Apple's latest and greatest but don't have the cash lying around to plunk down on it? Well, we're giving away $2,500 in gadgets for free.

CLASS DISMISSED

The Death Of An Adjunct

3 diggs The Atlantic Work Education Death

Thea Hunter was a promising, brilliant scholar. And then she got trapped in academia's permanent underclass.

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Whiskey Cocktails By Van Flandern

2 diggs amazon.com Digg Pick

These recipes from the mind of America's top mixologist are all shot against the backdrop of such legendary New York City bars as the Brandy Library, Dead Rabbit Bar and McSorleys

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The Danner Mountain 600 Is The Boot You Need

3 diggs huckberry.com Digg Pick

Classic mountain style, modern comfort and damn good looks for $200.

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'The Birth Of Loud' And The Battle Over The First Electric Guitar

8 diggs amazon.com Digg Pick

A riveting saga in the history of rock ‘n’ roll: the decades-long rivalry between the two men who innovated the electric guitar’s amplified sound — Leo Fender and Les Paul — and their intense competition.