The Week's Best Videos: Bees, Beyonce and Burnt Rice

Slow-Mo Captures Why You Should Never, Ever Use Water To Put Out A Grease Fire, The Gentle Art Of Bee-Removal In India, Is This The New 'Inception Noise' For Movie Trailers?, The 'Single Ladies' Dance Aligns Perfectly With The 'Ducktales' Theme, An Interview With The Grapefruit Blowjob Lady, The Reason You Can Never Seem To Cook Rice Correctly The Daily Digg Sunday, May 31, 2015 FLAMES. FLAMES EVERYWHERE Slow-Mo Captures Why You Should Never, Ever Use Water To Put Out A Grease Fire digg.com The Slow Mo Guys show us bad decision-making in 2,500 frames per second. Be safe out there, amateur fry cooks. THE BEE WHISPERER The Gentle Art Of Bee-Removal In India digg.com It's not every day you see a man picking up bees by the handful without any protection on. Make sure to stick around until 4:40 to see how the bees react to an unprotected queen. BWAAAAAMP 2.0 Is This The New 'Inception Noise' For Movie Trailers? digg.com You've probably heard that weird "powering down" noise in every trailer for the past few years and didn't even realize how redundant it was getting. What's worse is that, unlike the *BWAAAAMP* that "Inception" made infamous, it's almost impossible to come up with a good onomatopoeia for it. A MASHUP MOST FOWL The 'Single Ladies' Dance Aligns Perfectly With The 'Ducktales' Theme digg.com Of all the cosmic coincidences, this is one of the strangest. ADULT CONTENT An Interview With The Grapefruit Blowjob Lady digg.com Adult entertainment star Kimberly Kane sets out to meet sex educator Auntie Angel after learning about her viral video featuring the "grapefruit blowjob method." Kim meets Angel at a grocery store in Downtown LA, where Kim tags along as Angel picks up supplies for a sex class she has later that day. ILL-GOTTEN GRAINS The Reason You Can Never Seem To Cook Rice Correctly digg.com In short: it's because rice is fussy and the type of rice, heat, and cooking vessel can all drastically change how it comes out. That said, America's Test Kitchen decided to come up with some helpful tips. Get more stories on Digg.com → FULL-SCREEN IS ADVISED In her heyday, Namie Amuro was the reigning queen of J-pop. We don't know if this is a comeback record or what, but we know a good pop song when we hear one, and the video is just delightful. Credit: Namie Amuro 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

Your Salad Is Killing Leather

How Math's Most Famous Proof Nearly Broke, Your Salad Is Killing Leather And Other Facts, The Prison Where Murderers Play For Manchester United, Pics Or It Didn't Happen, VIDEO: 'Kung Fury' Is 30 Minutes Of '80s Nostalgia And Explosions, These Chimps Helped Us Find A Hepatitis Vaccine. Now They've Been Left To Die The Daily Digg Friday, May 29, 2015 THE BURDEN OF PROOF How Math's Most Famous Proof Nearly Broke nautil.us Andrew Wiles thought he had a solution to an age-old puzzle. Until it began to unravel. WHAT WE LEARNED THIS WEEK Your Salad Is Killing Leather And Other Facts digg.com This week we learned that not eating enough steak hurts the leather industry, there's a heated debate over the hottest place on Earth and the machines will eventually kill us all. THEY'VE ALL GONE INTO THE BOOK The Prison Where Murderers Play For Manchester United theguardian.com Luzira was once the most notorious prison in Uganda. Now it's home to what is surely the world's most elaborate prison football league – and a model for the transformative power of the beautiful game. WHEN OP DELIVERS Pics Or It Didn't Happen nytimes.com It's a glib reply to a comrade's boasting — coming out of Internet gaming forums to rebut boasts about high scores and awesome kills — but the fact is we like proof. OR: KARATE COP VS. KUNG FU HITLER VIDEO: 'Kung Fury' Is 30 Minutes Of '80s Nostalgia And Explosions digg.com Here is all you need to know: Kung Fury is a renegade cop who needs to travel back in time to kill Hitler. If that doesn't make you want to hit play then you're a robot or Hitler. Or RoboHitler. WE'RE THE ANIMALS These Chimps Helped Us Find A Hepatitis Vaccine. Now They've Been Left To Die motherboard.vice.com The 66 chimps are currently surviving on a reduced feeding schedule paid for through emergency funds pieced together by the Humane Society and the personal donations of a handful of individual conservationists. But they only have enough money to support the chimps' care for a few more weeks. Get more stories on Digg.com → CAN YOU BEE-LIEVE IT? Vanya Shivashankar, second from left, 13, of Olathe, Kan., and Gokul Venkatachalam, right, 14, of St. Louis, are greeted onstage by their families as co-champions after winning the finals of the Scripps National Spelling Bee, Thursday, May 28, 2015, in Oxon Hill, Md. Credit: AP Photo/Andrew Harnik 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

Monkey Trial 2.0

Thinking Outside The Pillbox, Digg Summarizes The Things You Didn't Have Time To Read, Chimpanzee Rights Get A Day In Court, Death Of A Domestic Terrorist, The Hardy Boys, Nancy Drew, And The Secret Ghostwriters Of Children's Fiction, Holy Crop: How Federal Dollars Are Financing The Water Crisis In The West The Daily Digg Thursday, May 28, 2015 LEMON AID Thinking Outside The Pillbox newrepublic.com Many doctors dismiss nutritional therapies as quack medicine. But many patients disagree, and they're taking matters into their own hands — sometimes to the detriment of their health. Can food cure disease? And are doctors ready to think outside the pillbox? MOUNTAINS, RACISM, AND HUMAN EXPERIMENTS Digg Summarizes The Things You Didn't Have Time To Read digg.com ​In this week's edition of the Long-Reader's Digest: Climbing the Unclimbables, un-teaching racism, and the strange history of child research subjects. NOT WHAT SCOPES HAD IN MIND Chimpanzee Rights Get A Day In Court wired.com At stake: the question of whether only human beings deserve human rights. BY KNIFE OR BY BULLET Death Of A Domestic Terrorist digg.com On this week's episode of the "Reply All" podcast — talking to a woman victimized by the pioneer of online death threats. WRITING JALOPY COPY The Hardy Boys, Nancy Drew, And The Secret Ghostwriters Of Children's Fiction theatlantic.com Along with the Nancy Drew series, almost all of the thrillers in the popular teenage franchise were produced by ghostwriters, thanks to a business model that proved to be prescient. THE PROBLEM WITH COTTON Holy Crop: How Federal Dollars Are Financing The Water Crisis In The West digg.com Cotton comes at enormous environmental expense, a price the American West may no longer be able to afford. Get more stories on Digg.com → FULL OF HOT AIR Activists of the international campaigning and advocacy organization ONE install illuminated balloons with portraits of the G7 heads of state in front of the Frauenkirche cathedral (Church of Our Lady) prior the G7 Finance Ministers meeting in Dresden, eastern Germany, Wednesday, May 27, 2015. The G7 Finance Ministers meeting is to be held in Dresden from May 27 to May 29, 2015. Credit: AP Photo/Jens Meyer 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

Death Of A Stuntman

Horrible Movie Set Accidents You Might Not Know About, Sending Ice To Antarctica, Shorts You Can Wear To Work, Meet The 'Dark Money' Phantom, The Creepy Fundamentalist Homeschool Cult That Trained The Duggars, Scientists Have Mummified A Human Leg Using Ancient Egyptian Methods The Daily Digg Wednesday, May 27, 2015 DEATH OF A STUNTMAN Horrible Movie Set Accidents You Might Not Know About digg.com Stunt doubles don't get the credit they deserve. Imgur user FatherUzzi put together a list of notable movie set accidents, some of which were fatal and gruesome. COLD STORAGE Sending Ice To Antarctica bbc.com Scientists are planning to ship ice to the Antarctic. They're afraid that mountain glaciers around the world are melting as a result of climate change and want to store samples of ice in a new vault in the coldest place on Earth. SHORTS WE DIGG SPONSORED Shorts You Can Wear To Work ministryofsupply.com If you're into wearing shorts to work, these pups are your best bet. Editor's note: They also look good on the weekends. CONSIDER THE SOURCE Meet The 'Dark Money' Phantom publicintegrity.org Just outside Cincinnati, tucked among insurance agencies, hair salons and a yoga studio, is the nexus of one of the nation's most mysterious networks pouring secret money into elections. DUGG DEEPER The Creepy Fundamentalist Homeschool Cult That Trained The Duggars gawker.com You know about the Duggars, the evangelical Christian family whose 19 children catapulted them to fame through Discovery Health specials and TLC show, "19 Kids and Counting." But we've still just barely scratched the surface of the insane, terrifying homeschool cult that the Duggars and thousands more across the country subscribe to: the Advanced Training Institute. WALKING LIKE AN EGYPTIAN Scientists Have Mummified A Human Leg Using Ancient Egyptian Methods popsci.com Most of what we know about mummies comes from the written accounts of historians like Herodotus, who lived in the 400s BC and recorded how the ancient Egyptians mummified cadavers. But how do we know we can trust this Herodotus guy? Instead of taking his word for it, scientists decided to test whether the ancient methods worked, taking a human body and mummifying it themselves. Get more stories on Digg.com → GRAVE CONCERNS An abandoned cage is photographed at a camp found in Wang Burma at the Malaysia-Thailand border outside Wang Kelian, Malaysia on Tuesday, May 26, 2015. Malaysian forensic teams exhumed a body from a shallow grave at an abandoned camp on Tuesday that was used by human traffickers, the first of what police predicted would be more grim findings as they combed through a cluster of jungle camps on the border with Thailand. Credit: AP Photo/Joshua Paul 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

Now This Is How You Park A Bike

Where Did The Cocktail Come From?, The Way They Park Bicycles In Japan Is Awesome, The Experiment That Changed Superheroes Forever, Being 5'9'' Doesn't Stop This Guy From Dunking Over A Dude Sitting On Another Dude's Shoulders, The World's A Lot More Violent Than Reported, Why Mobile Calls Are Still Subpar, And How That's Changing The Daily Digg Tuesday, May 26, 2015 SHOULD YOU SHAKE IT OR STIR? Where Did The Cocktail Come From? digg.com In addition to its peculiar history as a medicinal tonic, plenty of hard science lies behind the perfect cocktail, from the relationship between taste perception and temperature to the all-important decision of whether to shake or stir. WHEELIE COOL The Way They Park Bicycles In Japan Is Awesome digg.com Forget chaining your ride to a parking meter. This intricate underground system puts all of that to shame. THE SECRET HISTORY OF ULTIMATE MARVEL The Experiment That Changed Superheroes Forever vulture.com It was a compendium of stories that saved the company that launched it, revolutionized the comics medium, and became the foundation of the multi-billion-dollar Marvel cinematic empire. PEOPLE NOT WEARING A TRENCH COAT Being 5'9'' Doesn't Stop This Guy From Dunking Over A Dude Sitting On Another Dude's Shoulders digg.com Ilya Kroshka, a 20-year-old Ukrainian man, shows off his skills and proves once and for all that white men can jump. A NEW HISTORY OF VIOLENCE The World's A Lot More Violent Than Reported historynewsnetwork.org It has a dreary name: "On the tail risk of violent conflict and its underestimation." But this new paper by social scientists Pasquale Cirillo and Nassim Nicholas Taleb could rewrite the history of violence. IDLE CHATTER Why Mobile Calls Are Still Subpar, And How That's Changing technologyreview.com Wireless companies and a few ambitious startups are racing to make your cell-phone calls better. Get more stories on Digg.com → BORING BUDDHA BIRTHDAY A shaven-headed young boy yawns during a special service to celebrate the 2,559th birthday of Buddha at the Chogye Temple in Seoul, Monday, May 25, 2015. Buddhists prayed for the unification between South and North Korea at the service. Credit: AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon 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