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THE ROOM WHERE IT HAPPENED

The Man Who Witnessed The Birth Of ISIS

7 diggs Foreign Policy Warfare Long Reads

Since its creation, we have learned about the Islamic State from its enemies. That is about to change. This is the story of Abu Ahmad, a Syrian operative for ISIS who witnessed the group’s lightning expansion firsthand and spent months among its most notorious foreign fighters.

A SECRET SQUIRREL

Scientists Finally Found Zenkerella, The World’s Most Mysterious Mammal

1 digg Washington Post Animals Science

Members of the Zenkerella genus are creatures of another world, "living fossils" that have evolved very little over the past 49 million years. When they first arose, Australia was still connected to Antarctica, and the Himalayas didn't even exist yet.

RUNNING FROM NOTHING

Scenes From The Terrifying, Already Forgotten JFK Airport Shooting That Wasn’t

2 diggs New York Magazine News

In a country that has spent 15 years focused compulsively on securing its airports, in a city with a terrifyingly competent anti-terror police unit, an airport was transformed into a scene of utter bedlam by the whisper of a (nonexistent) threat.

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80% Of People Don’t Fit Into Industry Standard Sizes. Do You?

30 diggs sonofatailor.com Sponsored

There’s a good chance you’ve been buying the wrong size t-shirt this whole time. Son Of A Tailor designs custom-fitted tees, so they know a thing or two about fit. Take their four-question quiz and see what your ideal shirt size is.

IT WILL MESS YOU UP

Do Not, Under Any Circumstances, Stand Behind An Active Table Saw

5 diggs Video Explainer Video

Ken Spitulski's table saw caught a piece of wood and hurled it 20 feet across his workshop, where it went 8 inches into his wall and punched a dent in the workshop's steel siding. So yeah, be safe with those table saws.

APPLE OF YOUR EYE

What If You Had Bought Apple Stock Instead Of Having A Kid?

6 diggs whatifiboughtappleinstead.com Economics Data Viz

Have you ever wondered how different your financial situation would have been if you'd invested in Apple stock instead of having a child? Well even if you haven't, now you can find out.

IN YOUR FACETIME, APPLE

Google Just Launched Duo, An All-New Video Calling App

0 diggs Daily Dot Technology News

On Tuesday, Google released its new video chat app called Duo. Announced earlier this year at Google I/O, the one-to-one video app is the search giant's attempt at simplifying the often too complicated task of video calling.

The Legend Of Question Six, One Of The Hardest Math Problems Ever

2 diggs Video Science Histories Video

Australia hosted the 1988 International Math Olympiad, and the final question was so hard, that one competitor — a future Fields Medalist — was only able to score partial credit.

THE XXX-FILES

The Great Pennsylvania Government Porn Caper

45 diggs Esquire Archive Law Long Reads Politics

On Monday, Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane was found guilty on charges of perjury and obstruction. Here's the backstory, which includes a trove of pornographic emails sent by top state officials, illegal leaks and a revenge scheme.

HIT SUBSCRIBE AND VOTE FOR KIM JONG-UN!

YouTube Stars Are Now Being Used For North Korean Propaganda

3 diggs Vanity Fair Internet World

British vlogger Louis Cole just wants to focus on the positive things about one of the world’s most oppressive nations.

A GOLD MEDAL AND SOME SKINNED KNEES

Runner Wins 400m By Straight Up Diving Across The Finish Line

7 diggs Video Sports Video

You know that thing where, half-jokingly, you throw your tennis racket to try to hit a ball that's beyond your reach? The Bahamas' Shaunae Miller basically did that, but in the Olympic final for the 400m — and it worked.

THE PRICE OF GOLD

If You're A Small, Rich Country, You Can Buy An Olympic Medal

0 diggs Deadspin Sports Economics World

There are plenty of legitimate reasons why athletes choose to compete for countries besides their home nations. And then there's money.

THE LAUNCH ON THE WAR ON LEAKS

The Leak Prosecution That Lost The Space Race

1 digg The Atlantic Histories Law Long Reads Space

He was the first whistleblower charged under the Espionage Act — and his trial set the pattern for how the government treats unauthorized disclosure of classified information.

THIS IS TOO MANY BIG CATS

Leopard Attempts To Tackle Man Playing With Lions, Gets Tackled By A Tiger Instead

39 diggs Video Animals Video

While we can't really tell whether this is just playing around or a serious attack, it doesn't change the fact our palms are sweating. Quite a lot.

WE WONT

Kegs, Climbing, Kombucha: This Is Co-Working Now

4 diggs Bloomberg Business Long Reads

WeWork’s success has spawned new boutique spaces to help you find your “authentic self.”

CHOOSE A SIDE

In The Shadow Of Trump’s Wall

9 diggs CNN World Politics

South Texas understands acutely, because it has to, what so much of the country chooses to ignore. The wall is not a construction project; it is an ideology.

FROM THE DIGG STORE

The $12 Universal Lens Kit

4 diggs store.digg.com Digg Store

Just clip the 3-in-1 lens to your phone and start taking DSLR-quality photos.

A SWAGWAY, MINUS A WHEEL AND SOME SWAG

Is Solowheel The Future Of Public Transportation?

10 diggs The Stranger Technology

A week living in a nerdy, battery-powered world that may never come.

ALL DOWNHILL FROM HERE

104-Year-Old Cyclist Named World’s Greatest Centenarian Athlete

1 digg New Scientist Sports Health Human Nature

Researchers have analyzed the performances of the world’s oldest record-breakers and named a 104-year-old cyclist champion.

INTRODUCING THE PENTATHLON

A Gentleman’s Sport, Now With Lasers

2 diggs New Republic Sports

The last time you had to deliver a message, what did you do? Type with your thumbs for ten seconds and press send? That’s what I did. But what if you had to sword-fight, swim, ride a horse, run, and shoot a pistol before handing over your emojis in person? You might find you’d rather keep your thoughts to yourself.

NO SUCH THING AS FREE LUNCH DELIVERY

The Failed Promise Of Postmates And The Uber-For-Everything Model

9 diggs Quartz Business

Success in on-demand delivery means becoming a routine convenience rather than a luxury. But as the high and even exorbitant fees on Postmates and similar apps show, the economics just don’t work.

YES, OBAMA FOUNDED ISIS, YES

Trump Campaign Surrogates Are Truly Awful, But Their Jobs Are Miserable

6 diggs cc.com Video Late Night Election 2016 Video

As much as we hate Trump's campaign cronies, sometimes you gotta feel just a little bit bad for them.

BUT THEY'RE STRONG AT... COMPUTERS?

Today’s Men Are Not Nearly As Strong As Their Dads Were

6 diggs Washington Post Studies

A new study in press at the Journal of Hand Therapy (yes, a real thing) finds that millennial men may have significantly weaker hands and arms than men the same age did 30 years ago.

NEVER INVEST IN GOLD

Hosting The Olympics Is A Terrible Investment

5 diggs FiveThirtyEight Cities Economics

The modern Olympic Games are wildly expensive — and wildly more so than host cities expect when they make their bids.

EVERYTHING IS KIND OF A LIE

How Natural Are Nature Documentaries?

3 diggs The Verge Nature Animals Entertainment

Any attempt to film nature will introduce some artificialities (among them, a narrative) and leave out some of the gruesome or boring details. Does that make it fake?

HOLA, WHOPPERITO

Reviewing The Burger King Whopperito

5 diggs Video Food Funny Internet Video

This is probably a more thorough and better quality review than anything called "the Whopperito" deserves.

TOO SLOW, TUVALU

What It Would Look Like If The Fastest Man From Every Country Raced

5 diggs hindustantimes.com Sports Data Viz

In Sunday night's men's 100m final, 8 runners lined up, including 2 each from Jamaica and the US. But what if the fastest man from every single country competed in a race? Here's what that would look like.

SO TRUMP KILLED PRINT?

I Survived 'Trump' Magazine — Barely

9 diggs POLITICO Long Reads Politics

Bills went unpaid. They turned off the electricity. Our paychecks started bouncing. I got cancer and they canceled my health coverage. Here’s what it was like to work for Donald Trump’s failed magazine.

IT'S SO BEAUTIFUL

How 'Stranger Things' Nailed The Perfect '80s Title Sequence

5 diggs Video Design TV Video

One of the best things about this summer's breakout television hit is that it captures the '80s almost flawlessly. And the title sequence is no exception.

RECORD HIGHS

Internet Drug Sales Tripled After Silk Road Shut Down

4 diggs vocativ Internet Business Drugs

After the FBI shut down online drug market Silk Road in 2013, it gloated about its ability to net some of the dark web’s biggest players. Three years later, and it seems as if the dark web’s consortium of online drug peddlers interpreted the FBI’s threat as more of a challenge.

HALF-BUTTERFLY, HALF-FISH

The Murky History Of The Butterfly Stroke

4 diggs The New Yorker Sports Histories

As with other paradigm-shifting inventions, the butterfly stroke is the result of a series of small innovations rather than any single big one.

STEPPING UP YOUR MUSIC GAME

This Organ Made Out Of Stepper Motors Is Pure Genius

5 diggs Video Music Curious Design Video

We're not exactly sure how it works, but feel free to read the super long description on the original video. Or just sit back and enjoy the music.

DON'T SHAVE THE PLAYOFF BEARD

Superstitions Yield Real Athletic Advantages, Say Psychologists

3 diggs Quartz Studies Human Nature Sports

While doing things like wearing lucky socks or alternating sips between two identical water bottles may seem like weird, paranoid tendancies, psychologists say such customs make perfectly good sense.

CANNED FEAT

Beyond Spam

4 diggs Bloomberg Food Business Culture Long Reads

Hormel's secret weapon for predicting the future of food.

IF YOU CAN'T YOU'RE A LOSER/BIMBO. SAD!

Can You Tell Which Tweets Donald Trump Wrote Himself?

21 diggs Slate Magazine Election 2016 Internet Language Politics

There's a theory out there that says the tweets from @realDonaldTrump are always tweeted from an Android device, while Trump's social media team uses iPhones. But can you tell them apart?

YOU CAN'T OUT-SWIM THE TAX MAN

Congrats, You Won A Gold Medal! Here's Your Tax Bill

10 diggs CNNMoney Economics Sports

America's Olympic medalists must pay state and federal taxes on the prize money they get for winning.

LET'S MAP THIS OUT

Visualizing Just How Wrong The World Map Is

67 diggs Video Maps Video

Some of us might already know that the world map isn't horribly accurate because it stretches a globe-shape onto a flat surface, but this video goes deep into specific comparisons of what things should look like.