Saturday, 22 August 2015

Reddit Daily Herald for Saturday, August 22, 2015

A daily recap of what's been happening on reddit over the past 24 hours.
 

What's going on?


  • Jimmy Carter: 'I would like the last Guinea worm to die before I do', from /r/news link
  • North Korea warns it 'will attack South at 8.30am Saturday' as Kim Jong-un declares state of war, from /r/worldnews link
  • How Nudity Became the New Normal: Millennials have no problem with nakedness, as long as they're in control, from /r/inthenews link
  • Family returns to home destroyed by forest fire to find their cat survived., from /r/UpliftingNews link
  • Amazon employee who wrote a rebuttal to The New York Times worked 100-hour weeks at a different tech company, from /r/technology link
  • Safeway paid $8.9 million to Michael Jordan for an ad that resulted in a total of two redeemed coupons towards the purchase of a steak., from /r/sports link
  • Federal Judge Orders DEA to Release Information about Illegal Mass Surveillance, from /r/law link
  • What is going on with the Chinese economy?, from /r/outoftheloop link

 

Get Smarter


  • Do animals that hibernate appear to require less sleep the rest of the year? Does hibernation slow aging in the animal? Any other interesting tidbits about hibernation?, from /r/AskScience link
  • ELI5:Why does it feel like HD movies are more HD than real life?, from /r/explainlikeimfive link
  • TIL there is a fine dining restaurant located inside a gas station in Texas. Sometime around 2003, Nigerian born Franson Nwaeze was denied a bank loan to open a restaurant. Undeterred, Franson applied for a loan to open a gas station instead, which the bank approved. The result: Chef Point., from /r/todayilearned link
  • Breakdown of U.S. energy consumption, 1776-2014, from /r/dataisbeautiful link
  • How to respond to an online review, from /r/HowTo link
  • Why are men in the military required to shave their head but women aren't?, from /r/NoStupidQuestions link
  • Perspective illusion, from /r/damnthatsinteresting link
  • Stingrays migrate twice annually, like birds, from /r/Awwducational link

 

Get Better


  • LPT: Apologizing too much can become a problem. It shows insecurity and untrustworthy attributes. Only apologize when absolutely needed., from /r/LifeProTips link
  • Guy shows how "Before-After" pictures can be taken only 4 hours apart. (x-post from /videos), from /r/fitness link
  • [Text] "I think a hero is an ordinary individual who finds strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles" - Christopher Reeve, from /r/GetMotivated link
  • [REQUEST] Remove Fruitopia stain from carpet?, from /r/lifehacks link

 

Nerd Corner


  • Science AMA Series: We are living in Concordia station, Antarctica, researching glaciology, climate and physiology. We haven’t seen the Sun for 4 months and 4 months to go before fresh supplies are flown in. The temperature outside is –67.8°C. AMA!, from /r/science link
  • Sumatran Rhinoceros Declared Extinct in the Wild in Malaysia, from /r/EverythingScience link
  • Stayed up until 4am to get a shot of Pleiades with my DLSR, from /r/space link
  • A Magnetic Wormhole, from /r/physics link
  • How Astronomers Could Observe Light Sails Around Other Stars, from /r/astronomy link
  • Jimmy Carter is trying a brand-new drug to fight his cancer. "It's really a whole new class of therapy... it allows our own immune system to fight a cancer", from /r/futurology link
  • Electricity generating power stations in the USA, 2015. [2176×1512], from /r/mapporn link
  • SQLite looks to be adding JSON support, from /r/programming link
  • Updated Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition is back! Pre-loaded and pre-tested with all available Linux drivers., from /r/linux link

 

Reddit Culture


 

Are You Not Entertained?


  • The Darker Side of Maple Syrup (2015) - A barrel of maple syrup from Quebec is worth more today than a barrel of crude oil. Producers are reaping the benefits, but not all agree with the tactics that whipped the supply chain into shape. [4:32], from /r/Documentaries link
  • Trump: What's the Deal? (1991) [720p], from /r/fullmoviesonyoutube link
  • Just finished watching Avengers: Age of Ultron. Question: Has there ever been a movie with twins were one twin DOESN'T mention who was born X minutes before/after the other?, from /r/movies link
  • Slash Reveals That He and Axl Rose Are on Friendly Terms Again, from /r/music link
  • Atom and His Package - If You Own The Washington Redskins, You're a Cock [punk/electronic] (2001), from /r/listentothis link
  • Just play all these videos together and enjoy, from /r/internetisbeautiful link

 

Eye Candy


  • I put my baby bunnies in their new bed, and then this happened, from /r/aww link
  • The Caribbean is far more than just pristine beaches. I feel like I'm in a whole other world when boating through these mangroves [OC] [5184 x 3888], from /r/earthporn link
  • An Amazonian girl and her pet sloth, from /r/pics link
  • [OC] How do you feel about out of focus Space Porn? [2048 x 1638], from /r/spaceporn link
  • Beautiful sunset in Colorado last night, thanks to wildfires in the west. [OC] [1280x960], from /r/skyporn link

 

Random!


 

Closing Thoughts


  • Touch-free soap dispensers are pretty pointless if the soap actually works., from /r/showerthoughts link
  • Allow Xbox One to stream gameplay to the Xbox 360, from /r/lightbulb link
  • "Billy was guided by dread and the lack of dread. Dread told him when to stop. Lack of it told him when to move again. He stopped." -Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five, from /r/quotes link

 



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