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Lil Miss Hot Mess and Co. Win Facebook Battle
(Newser) - Victory for Sister Roma, Lil Miss Hot Mess, and hundreds of other drag queens who had fallen foul of Facebook's "real name" policy: The company says it will ease up on the policy and they can carry on using their stage names. The drag queens had their accounts... More » Newser located this story for you on Thursday, October 2, 2014 7:04 AM. The story matched your section(s) Technology, Lifestyle.
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US Keeping Nukes in Case of ... Asteroids?
(Newser) - Somebody's been watching Armageddon: American nuclear authorities say they have delayed getting rid of old warhead components because they could help protect the world from killer asteroids. Authorities say the warheads are being kept "pending a senior-level government evaluation of their use in planetary defense against earthbound asteroids,... More » Newser located this story for you on Thursday, October 2, 2014 7:04 AM. The story matched your section(s) Science.
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This Could Be World's Most Endangered Animal
(Newser) - A new species of whale has been identified in an underwater canyon in the Gulf of Mexico, but scientists fear they won't have long to get to know it: There are only about 50 of the unique species of Bryde's whale left in waters off the Florida Panhandle,... More » Newser located this story for you on Thursday, October 2, 2014 7:04 AM. The story matched your section(s) Science.
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Canada: Arctic Shipwreck Is Explorer's Flagship
(Newser) - One of two ships from Sir John Franklin's doomed 1845 Arctic expedition was discovered last month —and Canadian authorities have now confirmed that it was the one they most wanted to find. The well-preserved ship is the HMS Erebus, which was the explorer's flagship and may contain... More » Newser located this story for you on Thursday, October 2, 2014 7:04 AM. The story matched your section(s) Science.
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New Viagra Ad Geared Toward the Ladies
(Newser) - At first glance, the new Viagra ad —featuring a comely, middle-aged blonde lounging on a bed with the ocean in the background—might appear to be strictly geared toward men. But Pfizer, the drug's manufacturer, specifically designed the commercial to target women, hoping that by showing a woman... More » Newser located this story for you on Thursday, October 2, 2014 7:04 AM. The story matched your section(s) Lifestyle.
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America's 'Perfect' Job Perk: the Precation
(Newser) - The last thing a company wants in a new hire is someone worn out from his former position, and two tech firms are creatively combating that. They're pushing their newly minted employees to take a "precation"—a vacation before their job actually begins. Indeed, San Francisco-based real... More » Newser located this story for you on Thursday, October 2, 2014 7:04 AM. The story matched your section(s) Money, Lifestyle.
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6-Year Quest Leads to Biggest Lake Ontario Wreck
(Newser) - The story of the Nisbet Grammer is not an overly tragic one: The 253-foot steel steamer was on a Buffalo-to-Montreal route in Lake Ontario on a heavily fogged morning when a steamer struck it. The ensuing hole caused the ship to sink, but it took 15 minutes to do so,... More » Newser located this story for you on Thursday, October 2, 2014 7:04 AM. The story matched your section(s) Science.
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US Blew Millions Shipping Military Trucks: Report
(Newser) - It would've been more financially prudent to blow up now-useless US military vehicles used in Afghanistan instead of what the Pentagon actually did: ship them back home. A GAO report released yesterday and cited in USA Today says that from October 2012 to October 2013, the Army and Marines... More » Newser located this story for you on Thursday, October 2, 2014 7:04 AM. The story matched your section(s) Money.
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Man Slept in Car for Days to Guard Discovered Treasure
(Newser) - Laurence Egerton's metal-detecting excursions often resulted in such "treasures" as old shotgun cartridges and other "rubbish," he says. But last November, the UK builder found something much better—22,000 fourth-century Roman coins, the biggest such cache ever found in Britain. The coins, which date from... More » Newser located this story for you on Thursday, October 2, 2014 7:04 AM. The story matched your section(s) Science.
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Saturn Moon's 'Magic Island' Reappears, Stumps NASA
(Newser) - NASA's Cassini spacecraft first spotted a mysterious island-like feature in Ligeia Mare—a large hydrocarbon sea on Titan, the largest of Saturn's moons—in July 2013. When it faded away during later imaging, some scientists dubbed it "Magic Island." Then last month radar images showed that... More » Newser located this story for you on Thursday, October 2, 2014 7:04 AM. The story matched your section(s) Science.
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Reporting on Missing Boy, Reporter Spots Him
(Newser) - Early the morning after a 10-year-old boy was reported missing in Tampa, Fla., a TV reporter went to the boy's street to cover the story. Then he spotted a small boy who looked like the one reported missing. WFTS reporter Cameron Polom tells Today.com : "He's looking... More » Newser located this story for you on Thursday, October 2, 2014 7:04 AM. The story matched your section(s) Lifestyle.
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