When In Doubt, Make A World War II Movie

Manipulate, Deceive, And Destroy, Best-Picture Math, Put A Propeller On It: The Golden Age Of Tinkering, How Was The Most Massive Object In The Universe Created?, Can You Solve This? The Daily Digg Tuesday, February 25, 2014 GLENN GREENWALD EXPLAINS Manipulate, Deceive, And Destroy firstlook.org One of the many pressing stories that remains to be told from the Snowden archive is how Western intelligence agencies are attempting to manipulate and control online discourse with extreme tactics of deception and reputation-destruction. It's time to tell a chunk of that story, complete with the relevant documents. WHEN IN DOUBT, MAKE A WORLD WAR II MOVIE Best-Picture Math vanityfair.com Data crunching may not help Oscar-hungry producers or office-pool bettors. Still, the themes, motifs, and plots from 85 years of best-picture-nominated movies do tell a story. MAD PROPS Put A Propeller On It: The Golden Age Of Tinkering theappendix.net Once upon a time, motorcycles, trains, and even UFOs were driven by propellers. Personal flying machines roamed the streets of Paris, and people were afraid that marauding anarchist Zeppelins might destroy their cities. No, it's not a steam punk novel. It was the turn of the Twentieth Century, and the golden age of tinkering. MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS How Was The Most Massive Object In The Universe Created? nautil.us The galaxy known prosaically as M87 doesn't look like much. The source of a jet emanating from that galaxy is far from prosaic, however: It's a black hole 6.6 billion times the mass of the Sun. SURPRISE, IT'S NOT THE OBVIOUS ANSWER Can You Solve This? digg.com Can you figure out the rule behind this sequence of three numbers? Read more on Digg.com → BUT DOES SHE HAVE HER SOMETHING BLUE? A Bulgarian Muslim bride Kadrie Avdikova has her face decorated with a special wedding makeup at the end of a two-day wedding ceremony in the Rhodope Mountains village of Ribnovo, 200 kilometers (124 miles) south of capital Sofia, Sunday, Feb. 23, 2014. The remote mountain village of Ribnovo in southwest Bulgaria has kept its traditional winter marriage ceremony alive despite decades of Communist persecution, followed by poverty that forced many men to seek work abroad. The wedding ritual was resurrected with vigor among the Pomaks - Slavs who converted to Islam under Ottoman rule. The highlight of the ceremony is the painting of the bride's face, where in a private rite, her face is covered in thick, chalky white paint and decorated with colorful sequins. Credit: AP: Valentina Petrova Digg for iPhone & iPad   •   Twitter   •   Facebook digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2014 News.me Inc. 416 West 13th Street #203, NY, NY 10014