With 30 million unique visitors and close to 2 billion page views a month, it’s safe to say a lot happens on the link-sharing and discussion site Reddit every day. There are more than 90,000 sections on the site; a single discussion alone can sometimes attract more than 10,000 comments.
How can anyone keep track of it all? Our daily Reddit digest highlights the most interesting or important discussions from around the site—every morning.
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Reddit’s doctors, nurses, and emergency workers share their stories of the dumbest New Year’s Eve injuries. “Was like trying to catch an oiled up Yoda,” writes Black-Zero of one violently drunk young woman. (/r/AskReddit)
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Reddit’s scientists answer two of the most important questions of our age: What exactly is an itch, and why do we get itchy? And: Could polar bears and penguins be introduced to their respective opposite poles (south, north) and survive? (/r/askscience)
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The neurons in an older person’s brain aren’t necessarily firing more slowly. It might appear that way, but they’re actually just taking more time because they don’t want to say stupid things. (/r/science)
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/r/pics moderator andrewsmith1986 posts that subreddit’s 2011 traffic numbers, noting that traffic has recently declined. He guesses that’s due to Reddit Enhancement Suite, others suggest its because the number of default subreddits has jumped from 10 to about 20. (/r/TheoryOfReddit)
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Two posts in /r/self claim that meme-making site Quickmeme is installing “vicious” malware on computers that visit the site. Quickmeme staff quickly reply in the second thread: “We like a clean internet just as much as everyone else, so please do contact us if you see any problems with qm so we can fix immediately!” (/r/self)
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/r/Fitness has launched it annual, year-long “body transformation challenge“—with corporate sponsorship, no less! (/r/Fitness)
