What The Hell Happened In East New York?

Broken, Drinking A Gallon Of Water A Day Is Fine And Other Facts, Finally, A Way To Understand How Visitors Use Your Site, What Makes A Person Creepy?, How The Rest Of The World Caught Up To Tegan And Sara, How 'American Idol' Became The Nation's Post-9/11 Therapy The Daily Digg Friday, April 8, 2016 WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED IN EAST NEW YORK? Broken digg.com Civic leaders want to fix East New York. Do they know what they're up against? WHAT WE LEARNED THIS WEEK Drinking A Gallon Of Water A Day Is Fine And Other Facts digg.com Welcome to What We Learned This Week, a digest of the most curiously important facts from the past few days. This week: drinking a lot of water will not kill you, the world's most flattest floor and the most useless machine ever. SERVICES WE DIGG SPONSORED Finally, A Way To Understand How Visitors Use Your Site hotjar.com Want to understand your website's users without the hassle of combing through dense analytics? Let Hotjar do it for you. Hotjar provides and all-in-one analytics and feedback tool that provides the most useful heatmaps, funnels and interactive views of your site. AN UNNATURAL PROPENSITY FOR FAVA BEANS What Makes A Person Creepy? blogs.discovermagazine.com When someone is creepy, you can just feel it, but what qualities actually add up make a person creepy. One study tried to find out. CLOSER THAN EVER How The Rest Of The World Caught Up To Tegan And Sara buzzfeed.com In 2016, the mainstream looks and sounds like this boundary-pushing Canadian sister act. Now that the former outsiders have survived misogynist critics, a fickle industry, and each other, the stars are aligned for them to become two of the biggest names in pop. WRAPPED IN RED, WHITE, AND BLUE How 'American Idol' Became The Nation's Post-9/11 Therapy digg.com "American Idol" was "born" exactly nine months after 9/11. The timing was significant, because since its premiere on June 11, 2002, the show has become an integral part of the country's coping strategy — a kind of guidebook for our difficult entry into the 21st century. Get more stories on Digg.com BABY LOVES TO DANCE IN THE DARK ​Dancers from the Hofesh Shechter Company perform "Sun" during a rehearsal at the National Theater Concert Hall in Taipei, Taiwan, Thursday, April 7, 2016. The work will be performed from April 8 through April 10 at the National Theater Concert Hall in Taipei. Credit: AP Photo/Chiang Ying-ying Digg iOS app   •   Digg Android app Twitter   •   Facebook   •   Tumblr   •   YouTube Advertise on Digg digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2016 Digg Inc. 50 Eldridge St, NY, NY 10002