That Happy Woman

Our Bizarre Infatuation With That 'Happy Woman', Veritasium Shows You Five Cool Physics Phenomena, littleBits Now Lets You Build A DIY Smart Home, The Weirdest Micronations That Have Ever Existed, Fellow Commuters Push A Train Off A Trapped Man, Quaaludes, Gemstone Mining And Musical Redemption The Daily Digg Thursday, August 7, 2014 MONA LISA MANIA Our Bizarre Infatuation With That 'Happy Woman' biographile.com Leonardo da Vinci's model has stirred more than adulation. A vandal threw acid at the lower part of the painting. A young Bolivian flung a rock, chipping the left elbow. A Russian woman distraught over being denied French citizenship hurled a souvenir mug. SCIENCE IS WEIRD, IN A GOOD WAY Veritasium Shows You Five Cool Physics Phenomena digg.com You can try most of these out right now, but we're not responsible for anything you break. STARTUPS WE DIGG SPONSORED littleBits Now Lets You Build A DIY Smart Home littlebits.cc Holy crap this is cool. With littleBits, hacking hardware has never been so easy. If you can put two magnets next to each other, you can build your own Internet-connected creation. HAIL CELESTIA! The Weirdest Micronations That Have Ever Existed io9.com Living in a regular country, with a normal government, can get annoying sometimes. Taxes, laws, political disputes... it's all kind of a bummer. So why not go live in a tiny country of your own? IN CASE YOU DIDN'T SEE THIS Fellow Commuters Push A Train Off A Trapped Man digg.com After a man slipped and became wedged in between the gap of the platform and the train in Perth, Australia — dozens of passengers managed to tilt the train car far enough to set him free. WE'RE A ZAMBIAN BAND Quaaludes, Gemstone Mining And Musical Redemption theappendix.net Zamrock was the energetic sound of a nation that had just thrown off the British colonial yoke. With its fuzzed-out guitars, propulsive beats and cosmopolitan outlook, Zamrock provided the soundtrack to this hoped-for future. Read more on Digg.com → TRAPPED An aerial view shows houses cut-off by monsoon floods in Kendrapara district of eastern Orissa state, India.The annual monsoon season, which runs from June through September, is vital for the largely agrarian economies of South Asia but every year also brings floods and landslides that kill thousands and submerge hundreds of villages. Credit: AP Photo/Biswaranjan Rout Digg for iPhone & iPad   •   Twitter   •   Facebook digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2014 News.me Inc. 416 West 13th Street #203, NY, NY 10014