Digg Editions Morning · Sat, Sep 14

Digg Editions Morning · Sat, Sep 14

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CULTURAL IMPACT FACTOR CALLOWAY, SPILLED CAFE, CULTURAL CACHE This Week’s Funniest Memes, Ranked digg.com It’s an internet fight and only the funniest memes will survive. This week’s challengers? Jonah Hill’s dropped coffee, Caroline Calloway’s Yale plates, and cultural impact graphs. FREAKS AND GEEKS, WALKS AND TALKS ‘Freaks and Geeks’ Vs. ‘The West Wing’: TV At A Crossroads In 1999 www.rollingstone.com How two iconic series debuting days apart — one a long-running crowd-pleaser, the other a cult favorite — represented television’s past and its future. ROSES ARE RED, STANDARDS ARE MOOT I Faked My Way As An Instagram Poet, And It Went Bizarrely Well vice.com I decided to find out whether Instagram poetry took real talent, or if the whole thing is a sham, by becoming the worst poet the internet has ever seen. JUST DESERTS The Suburbanites Making The Desert Bloom With McMansions wired.com Growing up in the 1960s and ’70s, Steven B. Smith couldn’t wait to escape the small, nearly all-Mormon town of Springville, Utah. In those Cold War years, many Mormons believed the apocalypse was imminent, in the form of a nuclear holocaust. DENIM WE DIGG | SPONSORED These Ex-Under Armour Guys Are Making The Best Jeans Of 2019 revtownusa.com After years in athletic apparel, Revtown’s founders took the best parts of workout gear — comfort, flexibility and durability — and applied them to denim. The result? Crazy comfort and solid style at a killer price. PICTURE THIS PICTURE THIS The ‘Vertical Graveyards’ Of Hong Kong, And More Of The Best Photography Of The Week digg.com The dangers of the New York City Subway in 1980, London’s shades of gray and other best photos of the week. HOW YA FEELIN’? SUCH NOT SO GREAT HEIGHTS Hypoxia City vis.sciencemag.org At 5100 meters’ elevation, a Peruvian gold mining town is the world’s highest settlement — and a good place to study how life at extremely low oxygen levels ravages the body. THE BRAIN *IS* THE STRONGEST MUSCLE The Grandmaster Diet: How To Lose Weight While Barely Moving espn.com You wouldn’t think that chess players, who sit for hours on end and only extend their arms from time to time, would struggle with weight loss. But they do. Inside the very real, very bizarre metabolic phenomenon gripping chess. DOES NOT COST PEANUTS How Peanuts Became A $4,200 Drug theatlantic.com A new, billion-dollar pharmaceutical to treat peanut allergies is up for approval. It’s simply peanut flour. VIDEO OF THE DAY END OF THE LINE Fisherman Tries To Reel In Fish, Ends Up With A Catch Way More Than He Bargained For rumble.com Some catches you hold on to, and some you most definitely should let go — like this one. DIGG PICKS A Six-Figure Project Management Career Starts With This Certification Training store.digg.com The 60-hour Project Management Professional Certification Training Suite covers essential project management concepts and will prepare you to pass PMP exams. Get it for 96% off today. Reel in the big one: a Saturday afternoon nap. View the Edition at Digg.com »

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