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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“Firstly, some basic neurobiology of how we pee,” begins NemoSum, in an interesting and, I suppose, important discussion (for those of us with seemingly small bladders) about how the severity of the urge to urinate doesn’t always match with the, eh, outcome. (/r/askscience)
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I love seeing all the amateur pictures of Saturn popping up in r/Astronomy. They’re sometimes blurry, sometimes blobbish. But somehow it makes the planet seem a little more real: You know this is some guy just snapping a photo from his back yard with a consumer telescope. This one was “taken from my son’s camera through the eyepiece of my Celestron 76EQ,” snotrokit writes, apologizing for the low quality. He adds, “Was still spectacular though.” Yep. (/r/Astronomy)
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If you’ve never heard of vocaloids–Japan’s virtual (holographic) pop-stars–this comment from Dammedia is a great introduction. (/r/DepthHub)
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Can you help this guy’s uncle find his long-lost gaming friend? “He wished he had his old buddies number, so he could play the new game Tera with him,” throwaway_gamer writes. “Now my uncle and his friend were like best online buddies, and they kind of lost connection after a game they played died.” (/r/gaming)
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Here’s a Reddit change that might be hard to notice, but is actually a pretty big deal. Reddit’s spam filter is a mess, and one of its biggest problems has been this: When a submission is incorrectly labeled as spam, it disappears from the main page, and loses out on the chance to gain upvotes—but it also keeps aging, according to Reddit’s algorithm. So by the time a moderator approves the post, it’s often too late. All the other new submissions have buried it. Now, thanks to some tinkering by Reddit staff, the post will shoot right back to the top of the new queue, giving it a fighting chance. Here’s a good discussion, if you’re interested in learning more. (/r/TheoryOfReddit)
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Let’s say the Earth suddenly stops rotating. How cold would the dark side get? Since movie studios apparently browse Reddit looking for ideas, they should absolutely make a sci-fi film out of this discussion. (/r/askscience)
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The guy who created the Twitter account @shitmydadsays has a new book coming out so, big surprise, he’s doing an AMA. It’s actually not that bad. Plus, there are lots of Will Shatner anecdotes. (/r/IAmA)
Did I miss something? Let me know in the comments.
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