WHEN SHAME IS THE COMPANION TO NEED
I Spent Five Years With Some Of Trump's Biggest Fans. Here's What They Won't Tell You.
How Donald Trump took a narrative of unfairness and twisted it to his advantage.
IT'S A DISASTER
Why Homeland Security Unleashed An 'Alien Virus' On Silicon Valley
The Wireless Emergency Alert system should be more advanced than the Emergency Broadcast System, if only the telecom industry would let it.
BUILT TO BE DESTROYED
Carbon Fiber Looks And Sounds Like It Was Meant To Be Crushed By The Hydraulic Press
We don't totally understand why this feels right in every fiber of our being, but we're not complaining.
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A WHOLE NEW WORLD
Planet Found In Habitable Zone Around Nearest Star
Careful analysis of orbital data has indicated the presence of a planet with a mass at least 1.3 times that of the Earth, orbiting about 7 million kilometers from Proxima Centauri — only 5% of the Earth-Sun distance.
DISCOUNT DOUBLE-BLIND
Busting The Billion-Dollar Myth
A non-profit organization is proving that developing new drugs doesn't have to cost a fortune. Can its model work more broadly?
WILL IT BALANCE?
This Guy Is Good At One Thing, And That's Balancing Weird Shit On His Face
Similar to such beloved classics as "LET'S MELT THIS" and "Hydraulic Press Channel," "Balance Anything" is a YouTube channel devoted to answering one specific question: what can't this strange Canadian man balance on his face? The answer may surprise you.
IT'S STRESSING US OUT
The Slippery Appeal Of The Biggest New Band In America
Twenty One Pilots are selling out arenas on their current world tour while remaining nearly invisible to those outside their active fan base.
WHAT COULD GO WRONG?
One Man’s Plan To Stop Global Warming By Shooting Particles Into The Atmosphere
Scientists borrowed the idea from nature: earlier volcanic eruptions have cooled worldwide temperatures by blasting massive amounts of sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere. The particles help to reflect more of the Sun’s light back into space, which means less of its heat reaches the Earth.
UNDERSTANDABLY NSFW
The Art Of The Hollywood Sex Scene
This is one zippy breakdown of scopophilia, the techniques filmmakers use to arouse an audience.
TURNING THE WATERCOOLER INTO WINE
The Curious Case Of Sports Writers Who Switch To Wine
The general consensus: It’s the storytelling, stupid. Both the style and the substance. Each topic begs for savvy but conversational prose.
DEVELOPING
American University In Kabul Attacked
The American University of Afghanistan in Kabul came under assault today, as security forces exchanged gunfire with the attackers.
SHARE IF YOU AGREE
Inside Facebook’s (Unintentionally Gigantic, Totally Insane) Political-Media Machine
How a strange new class of media outlet has arisen to take over our news feeds.
THERE WILL BE DISAGREEMENTS
The Best 100 Films Of The 21st Century, According To 177 Film Critics Around The World
Is "Mulholland Drive," David Lynch’s unsettling, hallucinatory meditation on Hollywood culture, really the best film of this century so far? According to 177 of the world’s foremost movie experts, yes. Yes it is.
DIGG'S TRUMP CHANNEL IS LIVE
Everything The Internet Is Saying About Donald Trump In One Easy Feed
The best way to keep up with the Republican candidate is by keeping this tab open all day.
DIGG'S CLINTON CHANNEL IS LIVE
Everything The Internet Is Saying About Hillary Clinton In One Easy Feed
She hasn't done a press conference in a while, but that doesn't mean she isn't making news. Check here to see the latest on the Democratic candidate.
HOOLI ALWAYS WINS
Google Is Using Neural Networks To Compress Photos (Just Like On HBO’s 'Silicon Valley')
Researchers at Google are working on a way to use neural networks, the building blocks of modern artificial intelligence, to make our picture files smaller without sacrificing quality.
BOLD STRATEGY, COTTON
Lil Dicky Talks Shit And Tries To Jam Rob Gronkowski
Lil Dicky keeps arguing that his "technique" will triumph over Gronk's "physique" due to the lessons he learned from his seventh grade PE teacher Dr. Guerney.
TOO BIG TO SAIL
World's Largest Aircraft — The Blimp That Looks Like A Butt — Crash Lands On Second Test Flight
The Airlander 10, which is notable for looking like a giant flying pair of buttocks, had a rough go of things on its second test flight. Luckily no one was hurt.
COMPARING CLINTONS AND ORANGES
Your Food Policy Guide To The 2016 Election
Where Hillary and Trump stand on food security, minimum wage, and sustainable agriculture.
IT'S THE LITTLE THINGS THAT DESTROY YOU
Just How Dangerous Is It To Travel At 20% The Speed Of Light?
At that speed, even individual atoms can damage the vehicle, and a collision with a bit of dust could be catastrophic.
TOO BIG TO FAIL
The Hedge Fund Trader Who Beat The Feds
Hedge fund manager Todd Newman’s successful career was upended when he was prosecuted for insider trading. After his conviction was thrown out on appeal, the case became a landmark in Wall Street regulation. An inside look at what it’s like to be stalked by the feds — and not back down.
THEY DON'T CARE ABOUT ANYTHING
Self-Driving Cars Don't Care About Your Moral Dilemmas
Would it be better to hit a granny or swerve to hit a toddler? It seems like a dilemma, but the designers of self-driving cars say otherwise.
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FELINE AIDS IS NO LAUGHING MATTER
A Hilarious Supercut Of SNL Cast Members Breaking Character
It's easy to lose it when you live in a van down by the river.
CHILDISH PURSUITS
Donald Glover’s Community
The comic turns his eye to his hometown — and black America — in "Atlanta."
UNFRIENDLY SKIES
Secret Cameras Record Baltimore’s Every Move From Above
Since January, police have been testing an aerial surveillance system adapted from the surge in Iraq. And they neglected to tell the public.
GOOD PLUCK
This Chopstick Piano Makes Some Seriously Beautiful, Chill Sounds
Kick up your feet, throw on some headphones and zen real hard with this gorgeous sound contraption.
64 DAAAYYYS (UNTIL IT HITS THEATERS)
The Sequel To 'The Ring' Gets A Fresh, Terrifying Trailer
Bad news, you can never escape. No matter how far you run.
DISASTER
Over A Hundred Dead After 6.2 Magnitude Earthquake Destroys Italian Towns
At least 120 people were killed in the 6.2 magnitude quake, which sent residents fleeing their homes and running into the streets. The mayor of Amatrice said "the town doesn't exist anymore."
NO RED MENACE
Ketchup And Eggs Is Good And Right
Eggs are not difficult but they are tricky. If they are a part of your life, you will mess them up every once in a while and it’s important to have safeguards, like it is to have water wings or bowling lane bumpers.
ONLY PARTLY A LAUGHING MATTER
Comedy's Serious Effects
A good joke can make us laugh. But what else can it do? Meet the performers and researchers who say that comedy can change how we think and even how we act.
PIN KINGS
Wrestling Teammates. Drug War Adversaries.
The astonishing story of how two wrestling teammates from Miami came to oppose each other in the cocaine wars — one as a drug smuggler, the other as a DEA agent.
DRUNK DRAWING
Blame Jordan's Odd Border On A Very Liquid Lunch
After drawing the boundary lines of what was then known as the Trans-Jordan territory, Winston Churchill is supposed to have bragged that he basically created a country “with one stroke of a pen, one Sunday afternoon in Cairo.”
GET IT TOGETHER, HILLARY
Seth Meyers Reads Some Of Hillary's Emails And Realizes She Sounds Like A Mob Boss
With the Trump campaign crumbling apart before our very eyes, Hillary should be smoothly sailing along towards the presidency. And yet, another treasure trove of sketchy-as-hell emails has been released.
MKBFD
The Kid Who Revolutionized YouTube Tech Reviews
22-year-old Marques Brownlee has become an internet celebrity and earned the label of “best technology reviewer on the planet."
A LITTLE HARD TO SWALLOW
An MIT Scientist Claims That This Pill Is The Fountain Of Youth
Leonard Guarente is certain he’s succeeded where doctors (and quacks) before him have failed. His pill will either extend lives or tarnish his career.
ON THE OFFENSIVE
Turkey Sends Tanks Into Syria On Anti-ISIS Operation
In a televised speech broadcast live, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said the operation — dubbed "Euphrates Shield" — was aimed at diminishing the threat of "terror" groups like ISIS and a Syrian Kurdish militia.
SWEET SERENDIPITY
Stephen Colbert's Touching Story About The Strangest Thing That Ever Happened To Him On The Street
Stephen completely ignores the actual question asked by an audience member, instead detailing a beautiful coincidence that occurred while he was hanging out in Arizona with "The Daily Show" crew.
WHERE'S THE REAL CRIME HERE?
The Philippines' War On Drugs Kills Over 1,900 In Seven Weeks
Police operations have reportedly killed about 750 people, with the majority coming resulting from vigilante killings. All after Rodrigo Duterte won the presidency with his hard-line policy to eradicate drugs.
