There's A Map For That

We're In The Platinum Age Of Maps, Russian Meteor Shockwave Circled Globe Twice, The IIT Entrance Exam Is Probably The Most Competitive Test In The World, Peeing During Filibusters, Explained, ESPN Employee Salaries Leaked The Daily Digg Friday, June 28, 2013 THERE'S A MAP FOR THAT We're In The Platinum Age Of Maps news.discovery.com With the ubiquity of GPS devices, navigational maps have more or less gone the way of the horse and buggy. But maps themselves are seeing a renaissance as the landscape of digital information needs plotting. DOUBLE THE AMOUNT OF DASHCAM VIDEOS Russian Meteor Shockwave Circled Globe Twice bbc.co.uk The shock wave from an asteroid that burned up over Russia in February was so powerful that it travelled twice around the globe, scientists say. FOR ONE, LIKE 10 PAGES OF SUDOKU The IIT Entrance Exam Is Probably The Most Competitive Test In The World priceonomics.com This is the story of India's Joint Entrance Examination, the yearly attempt to pick out the ten thousand most intelligent students in a country of 1.2 billion people. ADMIT IT, YOU WERE WONDERING Peeing During Filibusters, Explained motherjones.com A filibuster requires a politician to speak for hours without interruption. So just how do they deal with the usual, necessary bodily functions? WHO'S MAKING 16K? ESPN Employee Salaries Leaked deadspin.com Want to know what a vice president of production makes at ESPN? We can give you a pretty good idea. An ESPN source sent us the company's pay-grade charts. Read more on Digg.com → THE POINT OF NO RETURN President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama look out from the Door of No Return while touring the House of Slaves, or Maison des Esclaves, at Goree Island off the coast of Dakar on June 27, 2013. Obama and his family toured the museum at the site where African slaves were held before going through the door and being shipped off the continent as slaves. Credit: SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images/Newscom Digg for iPhone & iPad   •   Twitter   •   Facebook digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2013 News.me Inc. 416 West 13th Street #203, NY, NY 10014