Losing Your Marbles

This Is The Story Of The Hamburger, Shia LaBeouf Believes In You, And Other News, How Is Critical 'Life or Death' Software Tested?, The Grim History Of A Sunken Slave Ship, VIDEO: Watching 11,000 Marbles Go Down A Marble Run At The Same Time Is Immensely Satisfying, Let's Just Re-Engineer The Climate The Daily Digg Monday, June 1, 2015 A MEATY STORY This Is The Story Of The Hamburger grubstreet.com Its rise from a lowly patty of chopped meat to the aristocracy of foods; its charismatic and delicious descendants; the arguments it inspires­ — over ethics and blends and tastes; and Silicon Valley's attempt to replace it with a meat that is not meat at all. WHAT YOU MISSED THIS WEEKEND Shia LaBeouf Believes In You, And Other News digg.com Shia LaBeouf's psycho pep talk, Korea's gargantuan shipyard, and Eva Braun's traveling underpants. VERY CAREFULLY How Is Critical 'Life or Death' Software Tested? motherboard.vice.com Your average scripter also isn't writing software for jet airliners or nuclear power plants or robotic surgeons. But somebody is — and the odds are pretty good that your life has been in their hands very recently. How do you know they're not a complete hack? Well, you don't really. Which raises the question: How is this sort of code tested? DEPTHS OF HISTORY The Grim History Of A Sunken Slave Ship nytimes.com The story of the São José, like the slave trade itself, spanned continents and oceans, from fishing villages in Africa to sheikhdoms where powerful chiefs plotted with European traders to traffic in human beings to work on plantations in the New World THIS GUY'S LOST HIS MARBLES VIDEO: Watching 11,000 Marbles Go Down A Marble Run At The Same Time Is Immensely Satisfying digg.com Sometimes less is more. With marbles, though, more is definitely more. CLIMATE CHANGERS Let's Just Re-Engineer The Climate medium.com Well, maybe not. Geo-engineering isn't the easy and painless fix for climate change that many proponents say it is. Get more stories on Digg.com → SUN'S OUT, TONGUES OUT A participant of dog race competes with his sled dogs during the Baltic cup sled dog race competition in a park outside St. Petersburg, Russia, Sunday, May 31, 2015. Credit: AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky Digg iOS app   •   Digg Android app Twitter   •   Facebook   •   Tumblr   •   YouTube Advertise on Digg digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2015 News.me Inc. 416 West 13th Street #203, NY, NY 10014