The History Of The Trapper Keeper

NASA Will Pay You To Stay In Bed For 70 Days, The History Of The Trapper Keeper, Why Do Smart People Believe In Astrology?, The Price Of Beer At Oktoberfest Completely Defies Economic Logic, How A Kids' Cartoon Created An Real-Life Invasive Army The Daily Digg Friday, September 20, 2013 GET PAID FOR BEING A WASTE OF SPACE NASA Will Pay You To Stay In Bed For 70 Days outsideonline.com Who says there's a job crisis in America? NASA is currently looking to pay a number of volunteers $18,000 to lie in bed for 70 days. USED TO BE THE TRAPPER PORTFOLIO The History Of The Trapper Keeper mentalfloss.com In the fall of 1981, second grader Mike Ryan was walking through the halls of his new school when he realized something terrible: He was the only kid without a Trapper Keeper. SIGNS OF IRRATIONALITY Why Do Smart People Believe In Astrology? psmag.com With little to no scientific evidence backing them, why do so many people still look at their horoscopes? TOO DRUNK TO NOTICE The Price Of Beer At Oktoberfest Completely Defies Economic Logic qz.com Beer is what economists call an elastic good; the more it costs, the less of it people buy. But at Oktoberfest, Germany's debaucherous annual beer festival in Munich, the rule doesn't exactly hold. In fact, it gets flipped on its head. ADORABLE MONSTERS How A Kids' Cartoon Created An Real-Life Invasive Army nautil.us Tales of monsters invading Japan are a longstanding tradition. At this very moment, the country is engaged in just such a war, with an entire army of invasive creatures, but they're both less fearsome and more adorable than Godzilla or Mothra. Read more on Digg.com → BEER HALL, BEFORE THE BEER Employees sit in an empty beer tent as preparations are under way for the Oktoberfest beer festival at the Theresienwiese fair grounds in Munich, southern Germany. This year's edition of the world's biggest beer festival will open on September 21 and runs until October 6, 2013. Credit: CHRISTOF STACHE/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