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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The /r/atheism community’s annual charity drive for Doctor’s Without Borders is so popular that it pretty much breaks Reddit. Thousands of people take part in upvote-for-cash posts that help raise more than $150,000 for charity. (r/atheism).
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Redditor zestyping says he’s part of the “one percent” and offers to donate $1 for every upvote and $10 for every donation. Early this morning, he proves that he wasn’t a troll: He gave $10,050. (r/atheism).
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Meanwhile, others complain that upvotes for charity are a form of attention-whoring. The general response: Who gives a crap? We just raised $150,000 for Doctors Without Borders. (/r/AskReddit)
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Redditors vote on the top albums of 2011. The top choice so far? David Comes to Life by Fucked Up. (r/music)
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How to make people walk into each other and other great mind tricks for daily use. (/r/AskReddit)
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Scientists from Japan and Russia may soon clone wooly mammoth. “They get closer each year, they just have to get the embryo to attach to the elephants uterus,” explains redditor sirhotalot. Isn’t that what Elephant glue is for? [/r/science]
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An important question to consider as you down your Fruit Loops this morning: “are there any concrete studies on whether milk is good for us or not?” /r/askscience has the answer.
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Here is a cute picture of baby chameleons. (/r/pics)
