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A SHOCKING IDEA

The People Who Believe Electricity Rules The Universe

4 diggs Motherboard Curious Space

The Thunderbolts Project believes that electric currents flow along plasma filaments while shaping and powering galaxies; that currents stream into stars, powering them like fluorescent bulbs; and that they induce the births of planets.

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A MEOWTAIN OF CATS

Why Am I Obsessed With A Cellphone Game About Collecting Cats?

"Neko Atsume: Kitty Collector" is a cellphone game about collecting cats. It is not a complicated game. It is, in fact, barely a game at all. And yet I have become obsessed with it.

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STAY AWAY FROM MY BACKDOOR!

Apple To Challenge Court-Ordered Backdoor As 'Unreasonably Burdensome'

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Apple has confirmed that it will challenge a court order that would force the company to aid the FBI's decryption of certain iPhones.

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Need More Screen Space? Just Add iPad

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Just not enough room on your laptop screen for all your tabs? Duet Display lets you easily use your iPad as an external display.

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DON'T WORRY, BE HATTY

How A Master Hatmaker Crafts Beautiful Felt Hats By Hand

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Nick Fouquet crafts all of his custom felt hats by hand. The master hatmaker walks Bloomberg through his very chill hat-making process.

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WHAT IS A BURBOT?

Fishing In An Icy Lake For The Bigfoot Of Fish

3 diggs beltmag.com Animals Curious Long Reads Nature

Fishing addiction is a strange thing to behold. Two dozen men, most of them woefully ill-equipped with tiny rods and light jackets but standing against the cold lake nonetheless, had convened on this spot with the half-baked idea that they might catch one of Lake Erie’s strangest gamefish — the burbot.

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DRIVING THE POINT HOME

My Story As A DMV Edge Case: How To Battle Bureaucracy And Win

4 diggs How-To Explainer

When I showed up with paperwork for my low-vision condition, the DMV was totally baffled. Here’s how I walked them through an edge case and how you can use the strategies yourself.

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IN BAD FAITH

Donald Trump Attacks The Pope — Here's What's Going On

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It's a day ending in –day, which means Donald Trump is feuding with somebody. And today, that person is... the Pope. Here's what happened.

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LOCKS OF LOVE

Why We Use Hair To Remember The Dead

New Republic Human Nature Culture Curious

People have long cherished hair as memory pieces or religious relics, but the fascination grew in popularity at the time of the English Civil War following the execution of King Charles I.

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LAND GRAB OF THE FREE

How A Fringe Political Group Is Trying To Take Over A Shrinking Montana Town

7 diggs splcenter.org Politics Curious News

On a decaying former Air Force base, antigovernment 'sovereign citizens' are battling the few remaining locals for control.

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FREEZE SOME RUBBER, MAN

Drifting Tanks Will Make America Great Again

12 diggs Video Warfare Cars Video

Next time it snows, take your M1 Abrams tank out and just go crazy.

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SLITHERING UNDER THE RADAR

How A Deadly Fungus Could Lead To A Lucrative Salamander Black Market

The Verge Animals Law Science

A ban on potential exotic carriers of a deadly fungus, may lead to an increase in smuggling of exotic reptiles.

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A TRUE REIGN IN BLOOD

The Weird Global Appeal Of Heavy Metal

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The president of Indonesia wears Metallica and Napalm Death T-shirts. And that's just the start.

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TREADING HEAVILY

Military-Grade Hoverboard Can Turn Into Any Vehicle You Want

10 diggs Video Warfare Technology Video World

THeMIS is a completely modular Military robot with infinite possibilities. Estonian defense company Milrem debuted it at this week's Singapore Airshow with a machine gun.

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1 RT = 1 VOTE

The New Mind Control

23 diggs aeon.co Internet Human Nature Politics

The Internet has spawned subtle forms of influence that can flip elections and manipulate everything we say, think and do

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GOING VIRAL

How Ebola Infected Twitter

6 diggs nautil.us Internet Human Nature

When it comes to sharing online, nothing spreads like fear.

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HANG IN THERE

Nepalese Kids Have A Very Dangerous School Commute

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Because of the way the Trishuli River runs through the Benighat district of central Nepal, villagers often have to undergo dangerous crossing multiple times every day. Kids even cross the treacherous river to go to school.

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WAITING FOR THE MONEY SHOT

What Startups And The Male Anatomy Have In Common

2 diggs Medium Business Sex Technology

We need to redesign an industry that's all about seed funding and upward growth.

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A LATTER-DAY INVENTION

The Mormon Internet Crisis

6 diggs Reply All Audio Beliefs Internet

On this week's episode of "Reply All": There’s been a big crisis in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and it has to do with the Internet and what it allows Mormons to do — factcheck the Church's history.

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FROM THE DIGG STORE

Want To Learn How To Capture And Edit Seriously Cool Videos?

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With 8 courses and 33 hours of instruction, this videography e-bundle will do the trick.

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A BRAND NEW YOU

An Expensive Suit Might Actually Make You Better at Your Job

9 diggs Bloomberg Human Nature Style

When you slap on some brand names, you feel better about yourself and your talents.

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'WAIT A MINUTE — DON'T GET FUNKY'

A Grandmaster Faces Off Against A Park Chess Hustler

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Chess Grandmaster Maurice Ashley returned to the Washington Square Park tables where he used to play and took on a regular.

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WEEKNIGHT UPDATE

Seth Meyers Is Getting Late-Night Right — And No One Is Watching

29 diggs Daily Dot Entertainment Culture Late Night Long Reads TV

Seth Meyers made a show that’s practically anti-late-night in every way.

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THE MOTOR OF SUCCESS

Inside Mercedes' Top-Secret Formula 1 Engine Factory

11 diggs The Verge Cars Technology

Downsizing and downspeeding produced an all-conquering F1 juggernaut.

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EYES IN THE SKIES

How Satellites Are Used To Spy On Us All

10 diggs Lapham's Quarterly Technology Explainer Science Space

Beginning in the 1950s, the first series of US satellites were launched to acquire images of Soviet airfields and missile sites. Today, there are countless more in orbit.

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WHATEVER WORKS FOR YOU!

What Is A 'Normal' Sex Life?

17 diggs BBC Sex Data Viz

Trying to describe the “normal” sex life is something of a fool’s errand; the variety is so great that a single statistic is never going to capture how most people feel. But looking at the full spectrum is one place to start.