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Pakistan's Earthquake Was So Powerful It Created A New Island, The Best Way To Find A Cheap Airplane Ticket, Somebody Stole 7 Milliseconds From The Federal Reserve, The Myth Of Steve Jobs' Constant Breakthroughs, Scientists Unravel Secrets Of Monster Black Hole At Center Of Milky Way The Daily Digg Wednesday, September 25, 2013 TOTALLY HAS DINOSAURS Pakistan's Earthquake Was So Powerful It Created A New Island theatlanticwire.com A major earthquake struck southwestern Pakistan earlier today killing over 100 people; injuring thousands more; collapsing building and houses; and, incredibly, causing a small island to form in the sea off Pakistan's coastline. ACCORDING TO GUYS WHO SET FARES The Best Way To Find A Cheap Airplane Ticket businessweek.com Travelers often bemoan the gambling in airline ticket-shopping: Do I buy now or wait to see if the fare decreases? FASTER THAN THE SPEED OF LIGHT Somebody Stole 7 Milliseconds From The Federal Reserve motherjones.com Last Wednesday, the Fed announced that it would not be tapering its bond buying program. This news was released at precisely 2 pm in Washington "as measured by the national atomic clock." It takes 7 milliseconds for this information to get to Chicago. However, several huge orders that were based on the Fed's decision were placed on Chicago exchanges 2-3 milliseconds after 2 pm. How did this happen? INCREMENTALISM The Myth Of Steve Jobs' Constant Breakthroughs techland.time.com Most of Apple's improvements have always been incremental -- and there's nothing wrong with that. IT'S GOING TO EXPLODE... AGAIN Scientists Unravel Secrets Of Monster Black Hole At Center Of Milky Way news.nationalgeographic.com For years astronomers have been puzzled as to why our Milky Way galaxy's "volcano"—a supermassive black hole (SMBH) at its core—is dormant today. Read more on Digg.com → HOW TO SAVE AN EMPTY SEAT A man training in martial arts rests on a bench along a business street in Beijing on September 24, 2013. The seven-day holiday built around China's National Day on October 1 sees millions of members of China's newly wealthy and mobile middle-class travel locally and abroad. Credit: AFP PHOTO / WANG ZHAOWANG ZHAO/AFP/Getty Images Digg for iPhone & iPad   •   Twitter   •   Facebook digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2013 News.me Inc. 416 West 13th Street #203, NY, NY 10014