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Who Needs Dentists? Early Humans Ate This Weed (Newser Daily Digest)

Who Needs Dentists? Early Humans Ate This Weed

(Newser) - The purple nut sedge, or nut grass, is generally considered a nasty, fast-spreading, and hard-to-kill nuisance weed today. But for our ancestors, it not only served as a nutritious meal, it cleaned their teeth, according to a new study on PLoS ONE . An analysis of hardened bits of plaque from... More »

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5 Most Incredible Discoveries of the Week

(Newser) - A mysterious-sounding crater and a black that's so black you can't see it highlight this week's list: Mystery Crater Spotted Near 'End of the World ': It's tailor-made for crazy conspiracy theories: A mysterious crater has formed in a part of Siberia known as the... More »

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Does Another Species Already Rule the Earth?

(Newser) - Humans have been ruling Earth for a while now, but are we just a flash in the pan? Scientists are analyzing other species and asking whether any will eventually take over should we perish by plague, climate change, war, famine, you name it. Or perhaps one already dominates without our... More »

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Quake Risk Growing in Eastern US

(Newser) - Earthquake Avoidance 101: Just stay away from California, right? Not so fast. An updated US Geological Survey report and accompanying hazard map confirm that the West still holds the worst potential for seismic shake-ups, with major faults and hazards creeping up the entire West Coast, reports the AP . But the... More »

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Family Attempts Suicide in Housing Dispute

(Newser) - Twelve people in China have highlighted their grievances by swallowing pesticide in public and falling to the ground, frothing at the mouth, the Telegraph reports. In one incident, a group of seven people from Jiangsu province (all from the same family, says the Daily Mail ) went outside a newspaper... More »

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Sorry, Everyone, But Our Feet Are Getting Bigger

(Newser) - We already knew there was an obesity epidemic , but there’s one body part that may be outpacing the rest: our feet. The average shoe size has gone up two whole sizes since the 1970s—and people are cramming their feet, big or small, into shoes that are undersized, according... More »

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Binge Drinking Makes You Cool, Briefly: Study

(Newser) - Want to be the center of your social circle? You might have to hit the bottle. A new study notes men and women who engage in heavy drinking more frequently hold higher positions of power within their friend groups. The study—focused on 357 young adults headed to bars in... More »

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Teacher Adopts 'Holy Terror' Student No One Else Wanted

(Newser) - Cruz Riojas came from a troubled home: He was reportedly beaten by his stepfather, lived in a decrepit one-room lean-to with six other family members, and wore the same clothes to school every day, according to the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal . He also caused trouble in school and was known as a... More »

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Space Probe Chasing 'Rubber Duck' Comet

(Newser) - Space may have found itself a mascot: a double comet some say looks an awful lot like a giant rubber duck. The European Space Agency's Rosetta probe has been gaining on comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko since reawakening this year , hoping to send a lander to its surface. Now that it's... More »

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Why 5 Siblings Walk on All Fours and Can't Stand Up

(Newser) - Some people walk on all fours for fun, or for sport, but not for long stretches and certainly not for ease of mobility. Yet five siblings in a family of 19 in Hatay, Turkey, walk not just primarily but only on all fours, and lack the balance to do otherwise.... More »

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Morning People Are Liars at Night

(Newser) - Think morning people are somehow morally superior? Think again, say researchers whose new study, the Morality of Larks and Owls , finds a strong link between a person's ethical inclination and chronotype—which refers to when people are most naturally inclined to be asleep or awake. When outside of one'... More »

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