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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“Vinegar will help with the tear-gas effects.” Redditors chronicle the raid on Occupy LA protesters last night. Multiple posters jump-in with first-hand accounts. (/r/politics)
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Redditor wannahelpout claims he’s a 15-year-old and has the ear of senator Benjamin Cardin, a co-sponsor of the Protect IP act. He wants to know: What can he say to Cardin that will convince him the Protect IP Act and Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) are terrible ideas? (/r/AskReddit)
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Redditor EByrne answers him succinctly (you know, in language a 15-year-old could understand). If you’re curious about SOPA, be sure to read that comment here. (/r/bestof)
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Crazy botanical fact of the day: Bananas are berries, and the banana tree is the world’s largest herb. (/r/todayilearned)
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What are the creepiest or most frightening scenes in a non-horror movie? /r/AskReddit puts the hivemind to work. (/r/AskReddit)
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Ravens use their beaks and wings like humans use their hands—pointing, gesturing (and, I hope, flipping off asshole ravens). As the discussion in /r/science shows, human-like gestures are just the beginning: Ravens are pretty intelligent creatures. (/r/science)
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I would really like to be in room 1153 of the Smith Lab at Ohio State University this morning. There may be a serendipitous Reddit romance in the making—or at the very least an awkward, lusty courtship. (/r/AskReddit)
