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Chris Rock Rips The Academy Awards Apart In His Opening Monologue, Lots Of Parents Don't Want Their Kids To Be Born On Leap Day, Banking For People Who Like to Be Treated Like People, A Couple Of Guys Give Their Sperm To A Couple Of Girls And Other News, Would You Buy Meat From A Robot Butcher?, Why Its Feels So Good To Scratch An Itch The Daily Digg Monday, February 29, 2016 NOT EVEN KEVIN HART IS SAFE Chris Rock Rips The Academy Awards Apart In His Opening Monologue digg.com "I'm here at the Academy Awards, otherwise known as the White People's Choice Awards," Chris Rock started, before going on to explain exactly why the #OscarsSoWhite controversy is such a problem. He never stopped. SENDING YOUR 5-YEAR-OLD TO COLLEGE Lots Of Parents Don't Want Their Kids To Be Born On Leap Day fivethirtyeight.com As soon as Noel Ziegler learned in July 2007 that she was pregnant with a March 5 due date, she realized she might give birth on leap day — Feb. 29, 2008 — and dreaded it. UPGRADE YOUR FINANCES SPONSORED Banking For People Who Like to Be Treated Like People simple.com Simple believes in a few things that are easy to believe in. Personal finance should be effortless. Budgeting and saving should be easy, even beautiful. You should be able to get help from a real person, every time. WHAT YOU MISSED THIS WEEKEND A Couple Of Guys Give Their Sperm To A Couple Of Girls And Other News digg.com The awkwardness of sperm donation, the absurdity of Steph Curry, and how to not get hacked — here's the best stuff you might have missed this weekend. DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC MEAT? Would You Buy Meat From A Robot Butcher? kernelmag.dailydot.com From modern farming to fast food's made-to-order assembly lines, food production has gone industrial. Soon robot butchers and cooks may be subbed in for people. WHAT SPOT DOES IT HIT? Why Its Feels So Good To Scratch An Itch bbc.com It's the unpleasant feeling that makes us instinctively scratch and scratch and scratch. So why does a fingernail almost instantly make an itch feel better? Get more stories on Digg.com A COLD EMBRACE Chelsea Carey, right, celebrates her win over Northern Ontario with Amy Nixon during the gold medal game at the Scotties Tournament of Hearts curling event in Grande Prairie, Alberta, Sunday, Feb. 28. Credit: Jonathan Hayward/The Canadian Press Digg iOS app   •   Digg Android app Twitter   •   Facebook   •   Tumblr   •   YouTube Advertise on Digg digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2016 Digg Inc. 50 Eldridge St, NY, NY 10002