If It's Broke, Don't Fix It

Who's Richer: Hollywood Or Silicon Valley?, Let's Leave The Washington Monument Broken, Scientists Solve A 14,000-Year-Old Ocean Mystery, Zimmerman Wants To Go To Law School To Help Others Like Him, Meet The Teach For America Resistance Movement That's Growing From Within The Daily Digg Monday, July 15, 2013 'DARK KNIGHT RISES' OR INSTAGRAM Who's Richer: Hollywood Or Silicon Valley? bits.blogs.nytimes.com Both the 'Dark Knight Rises' and Instagram made about $1 billion in 2012. Which would you rather own? IF IT'S BROKEN, DON'T FIX IT Let's Leave The Washington Monument Broken washingtonpost.com The Washington Monument is broken — and it hasn't looked so good in years. ICE-COLD CASE Scientists Solve A 14,000-Year-Old Ocean Mystery phys.org At the end of the last Ice Age, as the world began to warm, a swath of the North Pacific Ocean came to life. During a brief pulse of biological productivity 14,000 years ago, this stretch of the sea teemed with phytoplankton, amoeba-like foraminifera and other tiny creatures, who thrived in large numbers until the productivity ended—as mysteriously as it began—just a few hundred years later. GOOD LUCK GETTING A GOOD STUDY GROUP Zimmerman Wants To Go To Law School To Help Others Like Him reuters.com After his acquittal on murder charges for fatally shooting Trayvon Martin, George Zimmerman may go to law school to help people wrongly accused of crimes like himself. GETTING RE-EDUCATED Meet The Teach For America Resistance Movement That's Growing From Within theatlanticwire.com A network of Teach for America alumni and corps members is organizing this weekend as part of the national Free Minds, Free People conference. The group's aim is no less than overthrowing the non-profit organization's dominant role in educational reform. Read more on Digg.com → TAKING IT TO THE STREETS Protesters get a round of applause as they spell out their opinions with giant letters across the street from the federal courthouse in Tampa. Credit: Dirk Shadd/ZUMA Press/Newscom Digg for iPhone & iPad   •   Twitter   •   Facebook digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2013 News.me Inc. 416 West 13th Street #203, NY, NY 10014