Anime Is Real

The Future According To Anime, The Peak Of Satanic Art And Other Facts, The Misfits Of Reddit Aren't Leaving, This Alleges To Be The Most Boring Viral Video, Inside The Secret World Of NSA Art, Could Neurons Have Evolved Twice? The Daily Digg Friday, June 12, 2015 ANIME IS REAL The Future According To Anime hopesandfears.com While Western audiences constantly look to science fiction to get a feel for what the future might look like, anime is often overlooked when they pull out their crystal balls. This is a shame because the talented forces behind one of the world's most popular art forms have an extremely distinctive outlook on what is to come. WHAT WE LEARNED THIS WEEK The Peak Of Satanic Art And Other Facts digg.com This week we learned that demonic art peaked in the 18th century, how to make a steak with meat glue and what code is. BUT MAYBE THEY'LL GROW UP The Misfits Of Reddit Aren't Leaving digg.com A vocal minority of Redditors are threatening a mass exodus of the site after the banning of five totally indefensible subreddits. This is why they're probably not going anywhere. KONY2012 DETHRONED This Alleges To Be The Most Boring Viral Video digg.com At present, this video is not terribly boring, and it has not yet gone viral. It is, however, a good idea to get money to those who need it most. THE MFA AT THE NSA Inside The Secret World Of NSA Art firstlook.org Over 17 years, David Darchicourt worked with the National Security Agency as a graphic designer and art director, illustrating top-secret documents about government surveillance programs. Now he is the unwitting central character in a new exhibition that puts the spotlight on the spy agency's imagery. SECOND TIME'S THE CHARM Could Neurons Have Evolved Twice? digg.com According to traditional evolutionary biology, neurons evolved just once, hundreds of millions of years ago, likely after sea sponges branched off the evolutionary tree. But one researcher thinks it happened twice, calling into question the origins of the brain and the evolutionary history of animals Get more stories on Digg.com → WELCOME TO EARTH Russian cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov rests in a chair outside the Soyuz TMA-15M space capsule after he and U.S. astronaut Terry Virts and Italian astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti landed in a remote area outside the town of Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan, on Thursday, June 11, 2015. Credit: AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev, Pool 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