Thursday, December 3, 2015

Reddit Daily Herald for Thursday, December 03, 2015 subredditreports

A daily recap of what's been happening on reddit over the past 24 hours. This report is also cross-posted to /r/DailyHerald.
 

What's going on?


  • Officer convicted of assault for pointing gun at civilian’s face, from /r/news link
  • World's largest Muslim group, Sunni movement launches anti extremism campaign, from /r/worldnews link
  • Anyone but Ted Cruz: Why almost everyone who's worked with him hates Ted Cruz, from /r/inthenews link
  • British woman carries baby with brief life expectancy to term — so she could donate the infant’s organs and save other lives. X-post from r/news, from /r/UpliftingNews link
  • AT&T swears it was about to offer you a bunch of amazing deals, but then net neutrality happened, from /r/technology link
  • UFC president Dana White says Rousey, Holm will have rematch, from /r/sports link
  • Second Circuit reverses conviction for accused ‘cannibal cop’ | fantasy is not a crime, from /r/law link
  • Revenge Porn Kingpin Sentenced To Two Years In Prison | Gizmodo Australia, from /r/cyberlaws link
  • Can someone explain the argument Noam Chomsky and Sam Harris have been having?, from /r/outoftheloop link

 

Get Smarter


  • YSK about Nreboot.com, streaming old school Nickelodeon, from /r/YouShouldKnow link
  • Do Aquatic Animals Yawn?, from /r/AskScience link
  • ELI5: Why does smoke get a "stringy" appearance in relatively calm air instead of just dispersing evenly?, from /r/explainlikeimfive link
  • TIL that the word "legend" originally meant "things to be read". In the pre-Medieval period, reading and writing were very rare, and so anything worthy of being written down was something very noteworthy, and thus "legendary"; worthy of being written down and read., from /r/todayilearned link
  • Potential impact of the US Supreme Court case that threatens representation of children and non-citizens, from /r/dataisbeautiful link
  • How to react to active shooter situation, from /r/HowTo link
  • What the fuck is a safe space?, from /r/NoStupidQuestions link
  • Magnet evolution, from /r/damnthatsinteresting link
  • Reindeer can change their eye color, and are the first (and so far) only mammals known to do this!, from /r/Awwducational link

 

Get Better


 

Nerd Corner


  • Sperm from obese men carry a distinct epigenetic signature compared to lean men - possible explanation of why children of obese fathers are themselves more predisposed to obesity., from /r/science link
  • Earth has lost a third of arable land in past 40 years, scientists say, from /r/EverythingScience link
  • Hawaiian court revokes permit for planned mega-telescope, from /r/space link
  • General relativity: 100 years of the most beautiful theory ever created, from /r/physics link
  • Hawaii's high court blocks construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope, from /r/astronomy link
  • We need a 'space race' approach to saving the planet, from /r/futurology link
  • Travel times from London during the Steam Age[1152x782][OS]. Link to source page with other interesting maps in comments., from /r/mapporn link
  • Swift is open source, from /r/programming link
  • Let's Encrypt: Entering Public Beta, from /r/linux link

 

Reddit Culture


 

Are You Not Entertained?


  • This Man Handed out 520,000 Sandwiches on the Streets of Minneapolis Last Year (2014), from /r/Documentaries link
  • Boy (2010) [720p] [ALTERED], from /r/fullmoviesonyoutube link
  • It's late for most of us, but the new 'Batman v Superman' trailer contains huge plot spoilers., from /r/movies link
  • Hip hop has the largest average vocabulary size followed by Heavy Metal, last places taken by Pop and Electronic according to a new study., from /r/music link
  • VELTPUNCH -- LET IT DIE [J-Rock / post-hardcore / upbeat / mathy ] (2015), from /r/listentothis link
  • PlaylistBuddy - Convert Spotify Playlists to Youtube, from /r/internetisbeautiful link

 

Eye Candy


  • Preparation is everything., from /r/aww link
  • Great Smoky Mountains, North Carolina USA. This photo was taken from my home in November of 2015. A rain had just passed through and the afternoon sunlight was poking through the clouds illuminating the Fall leaves. [6000x4000], from /r/earthporn link
  • A town near me just added this for Facebook and Craigslist sales, from /r/pics link
  • Io Transit of Jupiter [716 x 741], from /r/spaceporn link
  • Sunset in Oregon behind some mailboxes. [OC] [2587x4200], from /r/skyporn link

 

Random!


  • A person I know in finland is planning on committing suicide within the month. How to do something about this?, from /r/Finland link
  • The Originals' creator, writer & producer Julie Plec working on a new CW series: "Containment" premiering midseason this year. Here's the trailer! :) (x-post /r/ContainmentTV), from /r/TheOriginals link
  • New to Altering / Acrylic painting. Would appreciate some constructive advice, from /r/mtgaltered link
  • I delidded my 3770K after putting it off for a few weeks, this was the result. The improvement in temperatures exceeded all my expectations, but that doesn't make up for the shit luck in the silicon lottery :(, from /r/overclocking link
  • I am an exhibitor at FanFest this weekend at Univ. of Phoenix Stadium. Looking for things to do at night, and also recommendations vis a vis transportation from the airport to Glendale., from /r/phoenix link

 

Closing Thoughts


  • I drive safer when there's food on my passenger seat than when there's a person sitting there., from /r/showerthoughts link
  • A refrigerator that dims the light when you open the door past a certain time at night. [X-post /r/crazyideas], from /r/lightbulb link
  • “We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons.” - Jim Rohn, from /r/quotes link

 



Submitted December 04, 2015 at 09:32AM by subredditreports http://ift.tt/21Acyhs subredditreports

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