Death Sells (And Everyone's Buying)

How To Win 'Jeopardy!', The Art Of Persuasion, Explained In 59 Seconds, The Day We Pretended To Care About Ukraine, Muscle Made From Fishing Wire Is 100x Stronger Than Yours, Old Time Farm Crime: The Opium Wars The Daily Digg Friday, February 21, 2014 LUCK AND A QUICK THUMB How To Win 'Jeopardy!' psmag.com Answer: Win this show and the general population will believe you are smart. Question: "What is Jeopardy!"? DO US THIS ONE FAVOR The Art Of Persuasion, Explained In 59 Seconds digg.com ...and that's how fascism starts. DEATH SELLS (AND EVERYONE'S BUYING) The Day We Pretended To Care About Ukraine politico.com What does our addiction to disaster porn say about us? WHAT A CATCH Muscle Made From Fishing Wire Is 100x Stronger Than Yours gizmodo.com A research team led by University of Texas at Dallas Professor Ray Baughman just turned all of that around, making wickedly strong artificial muscle fibers from nothing more than fishing wire. POWDER KEG Old Time Farm Crime: The Opium Wars modernfarmer.com It was a major drug bust with more than 1,600 arrests and the confiscation of 11,000 pounds of a highly addictive substance. No, this wasn't a DEA raid of a major meth operation. It was the year 1839 and the Chinese government was cracking down on British importation of opium. Read more on Digg.com → NO END IN SIGHT An anti-government protester holds a crucifix as he prays at Independence Square in Kiev, Ukraine. Credit: Marko Drobnjakovic/AP Digg for iPhone & iPad   •   Twitter   •   Facebook digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2014 News.me Inc. 416 West 13th Street #203, NY, NY 10014