The real story behind what everyone knows
If you've ever cracked your knuckles near someone who cared about you, you've probably heard the warning. It's one of the most confidently delivered pieces of folk wisdom in American households. It's also not true — and one remarkably dedicated physician went to extraordinary lengths to prove it.
Almost everyone has heard that you need to drink eight glasses of water a day, but almost no one knows where that number actually came from. The truth is surprisingly murky — and a little embarrassing for how confidently we've all repeated it. Your body is probably doing just fine without the countdown.
Before Reddit became the front page of the internet, there was Digg — a scrappy social news site that dominated the mid-2000s web and then spectacularly imploded. Here's the wild, messy, surprisingly fascinating story of how Digg rose to glory, lost everything in one catastrophic update, and kept trying to claw its way back.