Want to read Reddit but don’t have the time? Our daily Reddit Digest highlights the most interesting or important discussions from around the social news site—every morning.
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Attack of the professional trolls: Esquire writes an obnoxious story about r/malefashionadvice, and the subreddit gets pissed. (r/malefashionadvice)
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A list of U.S. presidents who are also killers. (r/AskHistorians)
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Will Reddit be around in three years? A BBC article spawns an interesting discussion. (r/TheoryOfReddit)
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“What if we put a mirror in space, 1 light year from earth and we pointed Hubble at it would it be possible to see two years into earths past?” Yes. This needs to be on the president’s political agenda. (r/askscience)
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The Nickelodeon storyboard artist has returned to r/IAmA, with another pile of sketches by request. (r/IAmA)
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Here’s where you can find every breaking photograph from NASA’s Curisoity rover. (r/science)
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Speaking of which: Check out tuba_man’s awesome stereoscopic 3-D image. (r/science)
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What’s a “real” sword fight? And how much does Olympic fencing resemble one? (r/bestof)
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An explanation of those photo-finish images used at the Olympics. (r/DepthHub)
Pic of the day: With all the Curiosity/Mars pics, here’s a pic of the surface of Venus from Venera 13, a Russian probe from 1982. (r/pics)
Photo by rachel_titiriga