Screwing With Shakespeare

Why We (Mostly) Stopped Messing With Shakespeare's Language, Stopping The Next Mass Shooter And Other Great Political Writing, You Don't Need Those 1,000 Thread Count Sheets, Baby, I'm A Secret Agent, Alien-Hybrid Here To Save The World, The Story Of 'Liquid Ass,' The World's Worst Smell, Humans Are Still Evolving And We Don't Know What Will Happen Next The Daily Digg Wednesday, October 7, 2015 YOU CAN CALL HIM BILL Why We (Mostly) Stopped Messing With Shakespeare's Language newyorker.com Critics of a project that will translate Shakespeare's plays into modern English may have forgotten the long history of the Bard's scripts undergoing heavy editing for the stage. THE ENTHUSIASM GAP Stopping The Next Mass Shooter And Other Great Political Writing digg.com This week in "The Enthusiasm Gap" we cover the origin story of the Republican Party's malady, a third-degree Bern and the frontline of defense for preventing the next mass shooting. LINENS WE DIGG SPONSORED You Don't Need Those 1,000 Thread Count Sheets linenspa.com The idea that higher thread count means better sheets is a myth — good sheets start with quality fibers that are made into the best fabrics and carefully finished to look and feel great. Which is what you'll find at Linenspa. A STORY THAT'S OUT OF THIS WORLD Baby, I'm A Secret Agent, Alien-Hybrid Here To Save The World playboy.com When Jeffrey Alan Lash died, his body was rotting in an SUV and authorities found $5 million worth of guns at his condo. His lovers were convinced he was an alien-hybrid. So who was this man? 'BUTT CRACK, WITH A HINT OF DEAD ANIMAL' The Story Of 'Liquid Ass,' The World's Worst Smell digg.com Back in the mid-2000s, auto engineers Andrew Masters and Allen Wittman released Liquid Ass as the be-all and end-all of olfactory gags (literally, gags). On this week's episode of "The Leap," the strange story of the world's worst smell. WHERE DID YA COME FROM, WHERE DID YA GO? Humans Are Still Evolving And We Don't Know What Will Happen Next hopesandfears.com When did modern humans branch off as an independent species? What have been our most important adaptations? And, most importantly, what is the next evolutionary step for humanity? Get more stories on Digg.com → AIR ON THE SIDE OF CAUTION Window washers use cables to lower themselves from a skyscraper while working on a polluted day in Beijing, Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2015. Air quality readings in the city on Tuesday were at levels considered hazardous by international measuring standards.​ Credit: AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein Digg iOS app   •   Digg Android app Twitter   •   Facebook   •   Tumblr   •   YouTube Advertise on Digg digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2015 News.me Inc. 416 West 13th Street #203, NY, NY 10014