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Welcome to What We Learned This Week​, a digest of the most curiously important facts from the past few days. This week: it's not just the bees that are dying at an alarming rate, at least one guy bowled a perfect game on 9/11 and there was a big earthquake that no one felt.

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BAD BEHAVIORS WHAT WE LEARNED THIS WEEK Insects Are Dying At An Alarming Rate And That Should Terrify You, 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: it's not just the bees that are dying at an alarming rate, at least one guy bowled a perfect game on 9/11 and there was a big earthquake that no one felt. 'IT'S REALLY A NIGHTMARE' A School Made Headlines For Sending Black Kids To Elite Colleges. Here's The Reality nytimes.com T.M. Landry, a school in small-town Louisiana, has garnered national attention for vaulting its underprivileged black students to elite colleges. But the school cut corners and doctored college applications. DAMPEN! ENHANCE! Is 'SmartWater CSI' The Future Of Crimefighting Or A Scam? medium.com California farmers are marking their property with an invisible solution to battle thieves THE WINNERS KEEP WINNING The Cities That Amazon HQ2 Left Behind theringer.com Amazon's yearlong search for the location of its second headquarters was billed as a chance to transform an American city. In reality, it made plain an economic system that increases inequality, monopoly power and political polarization. DEALS WE DIGG | SPONSORED Save Your Money And Up Your Computing Power With A Great Deal From Dell Small Business dell.com Whether you need a notebook for yourself, a workstation for your small business or a 2-in-1 laptop/tablet as a gift, Dell has its lowest prices of the year on everything. ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED? TIME TO GET NAUSEOUS 'Rocko's Modern Life': Inside The Barely Contained Chaos Of A Nickelodeon Classic vanityfair.com Creator Joe Murray and his team reminisce about their weird, wild, occasionally obscene cartoon — which was even loonier behind the scenes. INHERITOR'S GUILT What Happened When I Unwittingly Married Into Money thecut.com I first realized my in-laws had money, real money, when they bought a second house — to store their boat. Fewer than two miles separate their homes, making this renovated boat house a tricky thing to explain to friends. I try not to bring it up. It raises too many questions. HAIR AND BACK AGAIN The Rise And Decline Of Furcadia vrvblog.co Furcadia is an online social game that hovers at the far reaches of the definition of "game," similar to classic "multi user shared hallucations." VIDEO OF THE DAY KARMA IS REAL Thief Tries To Snatch Woman's Purse, Gets So Much More Than He Bargained For digg.com Crime doesn't pay, but sometimes it does punch and kick. IN THE NEWS Marriott Says Data Breach Compromised Info Of Up To 500 Million Guests A Single, Mystery Ballot Could Sway Control Of Alaska's State Government The Trump Organization Planned To Give Vladimir Putin The $50 Million Penthouse In Trump Tower Moscow Far-Right Activist Laura Loomer Handcuffs Herself To Twitter HQ Door After Getting Banned, Rants To Uninterested New Yorkers DIGG PICKS 13 Gifts For That Hard-To-Buy-For Kid In Your Life digg.com Buying gifts for adults can be stressful. The pressure to pick out that perfect gift for a child can be almost unbearable. We're here to help. Here's a list of 13 gifts that would make any child happy this holiday season. We hope you have a Really Really Big Weekend. View the Edition at Digg.com »

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When it comes to using computers to steal money, few can come close to matching the success of Russian hacker Evgeniy Bogachev.

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AN INSIDE LOOK THE WORLD'S MOST-WANTED CYBERCRIMINAL The $100 Million Bot Heist nautil.us When it comes to using computers to steal money, few can come close to matching the success of Russian hacker Evgeniy Bogachev. NEARLY 19,000 STRUCTURES DESTROYED The Camp Fire's Destruction, Shown In 360-Degree Imagery digg.com The Camp Fire, the most destructive in California's history, has finally been contained. To get a sense of the scale of the destruction, this interactive map collects drone imagery of destroyed structures. KEEPING UP WITH THE 'GRAM Meet Alexa: Inside The Mind Of A Digital Native 1843magazine.com She is 24 and Instagram is her life, even though she sometimes wishes it wasn't. But what happens when she meets a guy who doesn't feel the same way about social media? MAXIMALISM IS THE NEW BLACK The Anxiety Of The Minimalist Closet gq.com Wearing black helped one writer deal with anxiety. And then it became a source of anxiety itself. DEALS WE DIGG | SPONSORED Forget Cyber Monday — Dell Small Business Is Celebrating Cyber Week dell.com Whether you need a notebook for yourself, a workstation for your small business or a 2-in-1 laptop/tablet as a gift, Dell Small Business has its lowest prices of the year on everything. THE FAULTS IN OUR PAST LET THE RIGHT FREQUENCIES IN Inside The Great Electromagnetic Resistance narratively.com Convinced wireless technology is making them sick, they're covering their homes in tinfoil or moving to the desert. Now they're terrified that the 5G revolution will leave them with nowhere else to go. WILLFUL BLINDNESS Sins Of The Fathers washingtonpost.com The Confederacy was built on slavery. How can so many Southern whites still believe otherwise? THE DECLINE OF TRUST Why We Stopped Trusting Elites theguardian.com The credibility of establishment figures has been demolished by technological change and political upheavals. But it's too late to turn back the clock. VIDEO OF THE DAY WAVE HELLO People Staying On The Fourth Floor Of A Waterfront Hotel Get A Big, Scary Ocean Surprise digg.com How strong are those windows, anyway? IN THE NEWS Michael Cohen Set To Plead Guilty To Lying To Congress In Collusion Probe Deutsche Bank Offices Are Searched In Money Laundering Investigation US Life Expectancy Declines Again, A Dismal Trend Not Seen Since World War I Senators Back Effort To Suspend US Support For Saudi-Led Campaign In Yemen Trump Says Pardon For Paul Manafort Still A Possibility DIGG PICKS 8 Gift Ideas For The Tech Lover In Your Life digg.com It's not easy buying for the tech savvy human in your life but don't worry. We've got you covered with everything from laptop cases and fitness trackers to drones and VR experiences. Never underestimate the power of the ocean, that's all we're sayin'. View the Edition at Digg.com »

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