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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This giant, curved video wall may be the greatest gaming set-up ever. For redditor fakeplasticdroid, it’s how he unwinds at work. (r/gaming)
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The mystery of the exploding marshmallow is explained in /r/askscience. (/r/askscience)
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The fact that the CIA overthrew Iran’s democratically elected government in 1953 should be a basic part of every U.S. history class; it’s fundamental to understanding the modern Middle East. But apparently it’s such a rare piece of knowledge that the fact alone earned a front page reddit post. (/r/todayilearned)
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A man becomes a woman and shares the experience in graphic, fascinating detail. Discussion and images very NSFW. (/r/AMA )
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Louis C.K. doesn’t like it when you tell him his art is cynical. Even if you’re the creator of ice soap. (/r/IAmA)
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Remember the /r/science story from yesterday about how a new vocal pattern is creeping into American women’s speech? Turns out it’s not so new. And it’s not really creeping. (/r/science)
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Should Wikipedia shut down in protest of SOPA? /r/wikipedia has the debate. (/r/wikipedia)
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“What’s a fact you KNOW that almost everyone is wrong about?” A simple question spawns more than 16,000 comments. The most earth-shattering? “Lemmings do not commit mass suicide.” If you want to see anything of the sort, you’ll have to stick to the game. (/r/AskReddit)
