Bite The Bullet (Train)

How The Law Turns Battered Women Into Criminals, The Train That Made Modern Japan, What We Learned This Week, A Secret History Of Mormon Heavy Metal, What Doesn't David Fincher Do?, What Would It Take To Turn New York Into A Megacity? The Daily Digg Friday, October 3, 2014 A FAILURE TO PROTECT How The Law Turns Battered Women Into Criminals buzzfeed.com Arlena Lindley's boyfriend Alonzo Turner beat her for months and murdered her child — so why was she sent to prison for 45 years? THE MOVEMENT OF CAPITAL The Train That Made Modern Japan theguardian.com At 10am on 1 October 1964, with less than a week and a half to go before the start of the Tokyo Olympic Games, the two inaugural Hikari Super Express Shinkansen, or "bullet trains," arrived at their destinations, Tokyo and Osaka. They were precisely on time. DIGG PICKS What We Learned This Week digg.com This week we learned why cyclists shave their legs, how to use an app for consensual sex and why this cat is a hero. 'WAR IN HEAVEN' IS PRETTY BRUTAL A Secret History Of Mormon Heavy Metal deathandtaxesmag.com For a brief, blaring onslaught in the early 1970s, Utah's most famous musical Mormons proudly put themselves in league with Satan. That's right: the Osmonds went heavy metal. AND THE OTHER WAY IS WRONG What Doesn't David Fincher Do? digg.com For sheer directorial craft, there are few people working today who can match David Fincher. And yet he describes his own process as "not what I do, but what I don't do." Join Tony Zhou today in answering the question: What does David Fincher not do? NO NEED FOR STREET JUDGES What Would It Take To Turn New York Into A Megacity? io9.com Something bizarre happened overnight: New York City's population grew to the size of Shanghai's, swelling from 8 million people to 24 million. It's like a natural disaster, but this tidal surge is made of human needs. Here's how we'll rebuild the city to make room for them all. Read more on Digg.com → THE BUS GOT ITS GOATS Goats look out of a bus window, while being transported to a near by livestock market, to be displayed for sale in preparation for the upcoming Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha, or "Feast of Sacrifice", on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan, Thursday, Oct. 2, 2014. Muslims around the world will mark Eid al-Adha, as the biggest holiday of the Islamic calendar. It commemorates the willingness of the prophet Ibrahim or Abraham, as he is known in the Bible to sacrifice his son in accordance with God's will, though in the end God provides him a sheep to sacrifice instead. Credit: AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen Digg for iPhone & iPad   •   Twitter   •   Facebook digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2014 News.me Inc. 416 West 13th Street #203, NY, NY 10014