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Does Reading Actually Change The Brain, The Police Car Of The Future, Surviving Life In A '70s Sex Commune, The Coolest Science Of 2013, In GIFs, Amazon's Best-Selling Holiday Items Reveal The American Id The Daily Digg Friday, December 27, 2013 HE DIDN'T HAVE A BEARD WHEN HE STARTED Does Reading Actually Change The Brain futurity.org After reading a novel, actual changes linger in the brain, at least for a few days, report researchers. IT'S WATCHING YOU The Police Car Of The Future online.wsj.com To the untrained eye, it looks like almost any other New York Police Department cruiser combing the city's streets—but this squad car has just as much brains as it does brawn. THANK GOD DISCO IS DEAD Surviving Life In A '70s Sex Commune thedailybeast.com Three decades after growing up in a European free-love commune, Paul-Julien Robert plunged into the film archives to make the extraordinary documentary, "My Fathers, My Mother and Me." IT'S THE ONLY WAY YOU'LL CLICK The Coolest Science Of 2013, In GIFs blogs.smithsonianmag.com This year, we saw dissolving electronics, flying meteors, gravity-defying chains and rotting pineapples. AMERICANS STILL BUY MIRACLE-GRO? Amazon's Best-Selling Holiday Items Reveal The American Id qz.com Amazon just wrapped up a successful holiday shopping season. It sold 36.8 million items on Cyber Monday alone, or 426 items per second. The company also revealed the most popular holiday purchases in a range of categories. Some of the items are kind of surprising. Read more on Digg.com → #NOFILTER Sailors aboard the guided-missile cruiser USS Monterey (CG 61) stand at attention during morning colors as the ship is moored in Funchal, Portugal, for a port visit. Credit: U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Billy Ho/Released Digg for iPhone & iPad   •   Twitter   •   Facebook digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2013 News.me Inc. 416 West 13th Street #203, NY, NY 10014

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Featured designer: Jonathan Quintin Posted: 25 Dec 2013 04:07 PM PST Jonathan Quintin is the designer behind StudioJQ. He has created inspirational work at the world's top design studios for clients including Bosch, Intel, Mitsubishi Motors, Moscow Raceway, NBC Sports Network and Rockstar Energy Drink. The post Featured designer: Jonathan Quintin appeared first on Design daily news.Are you a blogger? Turn your posts into eBooks very quickly using MagPress, our Premium WordPress plugin.

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That Soft White Underbelly

Why Do Animals Have Soft White Underbellies?, The Best Apps For All Your New Devices, Did Dinosaurs Get The Flu?, The Tricorder Is Real (Kinda), Google Punishes Rap Genius By Making Site Unsearchable The Daily Digg Thursday, December 26, 2013 SO YOU KNOW WHERE TO RUB Why Do Animals Have Soft White Underbellies? slate.com The phrase "soft white underbelly" describes the anatomy of a broad spectrum of animals ranging from sharks to amphibians to birds and even some mammals. Why is the most notorious biological vulnerability on Earth so ubiquitous? HOW TO GET FULLY-LOADED The Best Apps For All Your New Devices theverge.com Maybe it's a new PlayStation 4, or an iPhone 5C, or the Windows tablet you've been not-so-subtly asking for all year. You've unwrapped it, torn the box to shreds, and turned it on. Now what? DINO-SORE Did Dinosaurs Get The Flu? popsci.com Investigating diseases of prehistory. WE'RE STUNNED The Tricorder Is Real (Kinda) bits.blogs.nytimes.com When Walter De Brouwer puts his head to something, he can produce single-handedly what usually takes several hospital machines and labs. His single hand, it should be said, holds a small and promising device with which Mr. De Brouwer, the co-founder and chief executive of Scanadu, hopes to remake medicine. HATE THE PLAYERS AND THE GAME? Google Punishes Rap Genius By Making Site Unsearchable searchengineland.com If you go to Google and search for "rap genius," rapgenius.com will not be found on the first page. Instead you will find links to their Twitter account, Facebook page, Wikipedia profile and stories like this about them being penalized by Google. But you won't find rapgenius.com on the first page. Read more on Digg.com → THAT OTHER SAVIOR A giant balloon with the shape of Superman participates in the Christmas parade in Acapulco, Guerrero state , Mexico, on December 25, 2013. Credit: PEDRO PARDO/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

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Freebies wednesday Posted: 24 Dec 2013 04:50 PM PST Every wednesday, we share a few freebies that'll make your designer toolbox a bit more useful. Vector ecology icon These unique free icons focus on environmental issues, from solar power to wind turbines, recycled clothes to cycling. Free newspaper advert mockup Wanting to show a client how their advert would look when printed in the newspaper, easily create a mockup with this free PSD file. Nautilus Pompilius A nice free display script font that reminds me a bit of Lobster. Pricing table A useful web design template for creating pricing tables. The post Freebies wednesday appeared first on Design daily news.Are you a blogger? Turn your posts into eBooks very quickly using MagPress, our Premium WordPress plugin.

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Featured illustrator: Orazio Marino Posted: 23 Dec 2013 04:41 PM PST Orazio Marino is a Sicilian art director, illustrator and motion designer who lives and work in Milano. The post Featured illustrator: Orazio Marino appeared first on Design daily news.Are you a blogger? Turn your posts into eBooks very quickly using MagPress, our Premium WordPress plugin.

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Easy Box

The Cardboard Box Just Got Way Better (Seriously), Our Plan To Rescue Dennis Rodman From A North Korean Prison, The Year In Digg, How Russia's Once-Richest Man Hid His Last $170 Million From Putin, I Signed Up For Health Care And All I Got Was This, Well, I'm Not Really Sure Yet The Daily Digg Tuesday, December 24, 2013 EASY BOX The Cardboard Box Just Got Way Better (Seriously) digg.com Every year, one billion cardboard boxes are produced in the U.S. Every one of them is terrible. These two engineering students have come up with a genius replacement. MISSION: HYPOTHETICAL Our Plan To Rescue Dennis Rodman From A North Korean Prison thewire.com What if, instead of leaving North Korea today, Dennis Rodman didn't make it out and was instead thrown into a prison camp by the country's erratic young dictator Kim Jong-un? And what if two brave bloggers had to save him? DIGGS WE DIGG (SPONSORED BY DIGG) The Year In Digg digg.com In the last year, we here at Digg have posted 21,303 stories, tweeted 25,088 times, and drank over 1,000 beers. But these numbers only tell part of the tale. That's why we've compiled the most noteworthy stats and stories from 2013 into something we like to call, "The Year In Digg." PUTIN THE WOOL OVER HIS EYES How Russia's Once-Richest Man Hid His Last $170 Million From Putin qz.com Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the Russian ex-oligarch who was just freed after 10 years in jail, told journalists at a press conference in Berlin two days ago that he didn't know how much money he had left. Leonid Bershidsky, a columnist for the Russian edition of Forbes, thinks he has an idea. BLACKHOLE MARKET I Signed Up For Health Care And All I Got Was This, Well, I'm Not Really Sure Yet psmag.com One man's attempt to navigate HealthCare.gov. Read more on Digg.com → AND DAVID BLAINE THOUGHT HE WAS SO COOL A woman and a child stand in the "Step into the Void" glass skywalk overlooking the French Alps on top of a 3842-meter peak in Chamonix on December 23, 2013. The installation, which opened to the public after three years of development, is made of three layers of glass and can withstand winds of up to 200kmph. Credit: JEAN-PIERRE CLATOT/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

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This week on Pinterest Posted: 22 Dec 2013 04:49 PM PST Pinterest has become a great source of inspiration for me. Each week I share my favorite pins of the week. If you don't want to miss any pin, make sure to follow me on Pinterest. Blue Train Cool illustrated cover for this John Coltrane album. Via nfgraphics.com. Vintage dust jacket A 1966 dust jacket from Czechoslovakia. Via Flickr. Identity by Morse Studio Nice minimalist corporate identity created by Morse Studio. Via Ffffound. Xmas Bash XMAS BASH by Gordon Montgomery. Via Behance. Amen cover A beautiful typographic cover dating from circa 1965. Via Typophonic. Gravity poster A new minimalist poster for Gravity. Via Rope of Silicon. Kopf und Kragen A great looking logo design. Via Dribbble. The post This week on Pinterest appeared first on Design daily news.Are you a blogger? Turn your posts into eBooks very quickly using MagPress, our Premium WordPress plugin.

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