The Dying Sea

What will California sacrifice to survive the drought? Read Full here via Digg Top Stories http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/05/04/the-dying-sea

Enemies Of The States

Three days in Beijing with Ai Weiwei, Jacob Appelbaum and Laura Poitras, the global dissident elite. Read Full here via Digg Top Stories http://fusion.net/story/125475/ai-weiwei-jacob-appelbaum-and-laura-poitras/

Valve Kills Paid Mods On Steam

Just a few days after launching paid mods on Steam through the Skyrim Workshop, Valve is removing the payment option, citing customer feedback. Valve says it will refund Steam users who purchased a "Skyrim" mod on Steam. Read Full here via Digg Top Stories http://www.polygon.com/2015/4/27/8505883/valve-removing-paid-mods-from-steam

Time Warner Cable Open To Being Acquired By Charter

Time Warner Cable Inc is open to merger discussions with Charter Communications Inc following a failed $45 billion bid by Comcast Corp CMSA.O, according to people familiar with the matter. Read Full here via Digg Top Stories http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/04/27/us-timewarnercable-m-a-charter-idUSKBN0NI2DA20150427?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews

Number Of Syrian Christians Abducted By ISIS Rises To 220

The number of Christians abducted by the Islamic State group in northeastern Syria has risen to 220 in the past three days, as militants round up more hostages from a chain of villages along a strategic river, activists said Thursday. Read Full here via Digg Top Stories http://bigstory.ap.org/article/480d5cd14e734303a72c5381a45173b1/activists-number-christians-abducted-rises-220

That Was A Thing: Sports Phone, The 1980s Way To Get Real-Time Scores

The concept couldn’t be simpler: You call a number and hear a minute-long message with the latest scores and sports news. A half hour later, if you want another update, you call again — and pay another dime. Read Full here via Digg Top Stories http://grantland.com/the-triangle/that-was-a-thing-sports-phone-the-1980s-way-to-get-real-time-scores/

'Weird' Fern Shows The Power Of Interspecies Sex

Botanists say this plant is the fern equivalent of a human-lemur love child. Read Full here via Digg Top Stories http://www.npr.org/2015/02/24/388515559/-weird-fern-shows-the-power-of-interspecies-sex

The Geography Of Box Office Success

In honor of the Oscars, Citylab tried mapping where 2014's biggest movies were set and shot. Read Full here via Digg Top Stories http://www.citylab.com/work/2015/02/the-geography-of-box-office-success/385595/

Rest In Peace For Less With Coffins Made In China

Armed with cheap Chinese imports, a Las Vegas entrepreneur takes on Big Casket. Read Full here via Digg Top Stories http://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2015-02-20/casket-industry-fends-off-chinese-imports-favored-by-vegas-entrepreneur?hootPostID=013c9cb6d1c3d8216bc385c548dd4f8e

Welcome To The Wild, Weird World Of Trademarking The Alphabet

What a recent dust-up between a financial services startup and Major League Baseball reveals about letters and the law. Read Full here via Digg Top Stories http://www.fastcompany.com/3042515/wtf-inside-the-wild-weird-world-of-trademarking-the-alphabet#2

Problems Too Disgusting To Solve

We can make water out of recycled poop — can we get people to drink it? Read Full here via Digg Top Stories http://www.newyorker.com/science/maria-konnikova/recycled-water-problems-disgusting-solve

The Old Man And The League

Kobe Bryant has always done things on his own terms. The end of his NBA career won't be any different. Read Full here via Digg Top Stories http://sportsworld.nbcsports.com/the-old-man-and-the-league/?

The Journalism Of Terror

How do we bear witness when everybody is a witness? Read Full here via Digg Top Stories https://medium.com/@Storyful/the-journalism-of-terror-how-do-we-bear-witness-when-everybody-is-a-witness-749344c7a45a

Don’t Read The Comments — They Can Make You Mistrust Real Experts

If you claim you're a doctor online, people may trust you more than the CDC. Read Full here via Digg Top Stories http://arstechnica.com/science/2015/02/dont-read-the-comments-they-can-make-you-mistrust-real-experts/

19-Year-Old Girl Allegedly Can't Prove Her American Citizenship, Birth, Anything

When you have your kid off the grid, you can really screw them over. A woman by the name of Alecia Faith Pennington is using YouTube to help solve her life's problem: proving that she actually has a life. Born at her parents' house, homeschooled and never hospitalized, there is no evidence of Pennington's birth or upbringing. Now she allegedly can't get a job, can't travel and can't even get a driver's license. Read Full here via Digg Top Stories https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPtpKNyaO0U

Facebook Will Tag Every Photo Ever Taken Of You — Whether You Like It Or Not

Facebook is getting smarter at faces — a lot smarter. Read Full here via Digg Top Stories http://www.dailydot.com/technology/facebook-deepface-science/

Pronouns Matter When Psyching Yourself Up

It’s a matter of how you talk when you silently talk to yourself, as you probably do often, especially when you’re confronted with a difficult task. Do you say something like “It’s up to me”? Or “I can do it”? Or do you say “It’s up to you” or address yourself by your own name? Read Full here via Digg Top Stories https://hbr.org/2015/02/pronouns-matter-when-psyching-yourself-up

Child, Bride, Mother

In Guatemala, the legal age of marriage is 14 with parental consent, but in Petén, in the northern part of the country, the law seems to be more of a suggestion. Underage brides are everywhere. Read Full here via Digg Top Stories http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/02/08/opinion/sunday/exposures-child-bride-mother-stephanie-sinclair.html

The Hidden Cost of a Flexible Job

It's nice to be able to work from home once in a while, but workers wind up compensating with longer, more intense hours. Read Full here via Digg Top Stories http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/02/the-hidden-cost-of-a-flexible-job/385170/

Use Finger Length — Not Genetics — To Predict Promiscuity

A new study further debunks the myth that men and women inherently think one way about sex. It's more about the size of your fingers, actually. Read Full here via Digg Top Stories http://www.psmag.com/health-and-behavior/men-and-women-both-vary-when-it-comes-to-sex