'Star Wars' Ships Make No Sense

The Ships In 'Star Wars' Make No Sense And Other Facts, When Correctional Officers Carry Shotguns, The Result Is Death And Mayhem, The Procrastinator's Gift Guide, How Online Vigilantes Take Down Cheating Runners, Get Last-Minute Gift Advice From The Experts At The Wirecutter, Why Your Brain Prefers Eggs With Orange Yolks The Daily Digg Friday, December 18, 2015 WHAT WE LEARNED THIS WEEK The Ships In 'Star Wars' Make No Sense And Other Facts digg.com ​Welcome to What We Learned This Week, a digest of the most curiously important facts from the past few days. This week: everything wrong with ships in 'Star Wars,' corporate America's undoing of the Red Cross and molten aluminum meets water beads. THE SHOOTING GALLERY When Correctional Officers Carry Shotguns, The Result Is Death And Mayhem highline.huffingtonpost.com Guards inside prisons shouldn't have guns. That's pretty much an accepted fact. Except in Nevada. DIGG STORE SPONSORED The Procrastinator's Gift Guide store.digg.com Yep, it's nearly Christmas and you still don't have anyone's gifts yet. Lucky for you, we've pulled together some kick-ass gifts that will help you save face come Christmas morning. GUMSHOES How Online Vigilantes Take Down Cheating Runners outsideonline.com LetsRun.com's web vigilantes are some of the Internet's most tenacious sleuths. Cheat at your own peril. DIGG DIALOG Get Last-Minute Gift Advice From The Experts At The Wirecutter digg.com AH! You still haven't gotten your [insert person here] anything for the holidays?? Come talk to the gift-giving experts from The Wirecutter and The Sweethome at 1pm. You're a mess! They'll help you get your life together. YOLK'S ON YOU Why Your Brain Prefers Eggs With Orange Yolks digg.com If you think something tastes better, it really does taste better, even if it doesn't taste better. Get more stories on Digg.com DREAMING OF A LITE-BRITE CHRISTMAS ​Demetri Masincup, 8, sits on the top a car while visiting the Christmas light show in Briery Branch, Va., on Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2015. The 35-minute long show had lights choreographed with music that played on the radio. Credit: Austin Bachand/Daily News-Record via AP Digg iOS app   •   Digg Android app Twitter   •   Facebook   •   Tumblr   •   YouTube Advertise on Digg digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2015 Digg Inc. 50 Eldridge St, NY, NY 10002