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Spurs Player's Selfie: 'lol #Holocaust'
(Newser) - San Antonio Spurs guard Danny Green visited Berlin's Holocaust Museum yesterday, snapped a selfie, and provoked no small amount of outrage with this caption: "You know I had to do it one time lol #Holocaust." Green is in Berlin for an exhibition game against Alba Berlin, but... More » Newser located this story for you on Thursday, October 9, 2014 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Technology.
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Detroit Homeowner: I'll Trade House for a Smartphone
(Newser) - Want to buy a fixer-upper in Detroit? Probably not, but if you change your mind there's a three-bedroom available in east Detroit for an iPhone 6, ABC News reports. Real estate broker Larry Else admits there are problems, like no front door, broken windows, and $6,000 in back... More » Newser located this story for you on Thursday, October 9, 2014 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Money, Technology.
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Why Are Plane Passengers So Into Tomato Juice?
(Newser) - Tomato juice: It's not something many people crave on land, but in the sky, it's hugely popular. Germany's Lufthansa airline, for instance, has said it serves some 53,000 gallons of tomato juice per year—not so far off from its 59,000 gallons of beer in... More » Newser located this story for you on Thursday, October 9, 2014 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Science.
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Newly Found Dinosaur Survived 'Horrific' Extinction
(Newser) - A newly discovered dinosaur that chased its prey around modern-day Venezuela may help us understand how species survived a mass-extinction event about 200 million years ago, phys.org reports. Based on two leg-bone fossils, paleontologists say Tachiraptor admirabilis was fairly small (5 or 6 feet, tip to tail), ran on... More » Newser located this story for you on Thursday, October 9, 2014 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Science.
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Here's the Best Place on Earth to Call Home
(Newser) - An international economic group has named the best region on the planet to live, and it's one whose reputation hasn't always been sterling, the BBC reports: Canberra, Australia. The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, which has 34 member countries, calls the Australian Capital Territory the best in... More » Newser located this story for you on Thursday, October 9, 2014 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Lifestyle.
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Cave Paintings Change Story of Ancient Art
(Newser) - A closer look at cave paintings in Indonesia may redraw the map of prehistoric art and provide evidence that the world's first artists were in Africa, National Geographic reports. An article in Nature says that cave paintings on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, once considered up to 12,000... More » Newser located this story for you on Thursday, October 9, 2014 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Science.
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5 Low-Fat Foods to Stop Eating Now
(Newser) - If it's low-fat, it's good for you, right? Not necessarily: Often, companies remove fat only to increase sugar, salt, and additives in an effort to make "diet" food taste better, and a recent study found that 10% of such foods actually have the same number of calories... More » Newser located this story for you on Thursday, October 9, 2014 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Lifestyle.
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Why It Sucks to Work at a Tech Startup
(Newser) - Turns out working for a tech startup isn't all hanging out with your cool friends and being handed wads of venture capital cash while enjoying all the perks of your awesome office. Lily Hay Newman spoke to anonymous startup workers and presents a list of what she found to... More » Newser located this story for you on Thursday, October 9, 2014 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Money, Technology.
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Comcast Got Me Fired Over Billing Complaint: Calif. Man
(Newser) - Even Conal O'Rourke knows his story might sound convoluted. But the California man hopes documentation and an in-person interview provided to Ars Technica will help prove that Comcast had something to do with him losing his job at PriceWaterhouseCoopers after a lengthy battle with the cable company over billing... More » Newser located this story for you on Thursday, October 9, 2014 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Money, Technology.
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Tweeter: JetBlue Booted Me Off Flight for Griping
(Newser) - Apparently, airlines are watching what you tweet and are unamused by your antics : A woman says JetBlue gave her the boot from a flight out of Philly after she began tweeting about her delayed flight yesterday—which she says was further delayed by a passenger joke. "It had been... More » Newser located this story for you on Thursday, October 9, 2014 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Technology.
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This Veggie Burger 'Bleeds' Like Meat
(Newser) - The burger looks, sizzles, browns, and even bleeds just like any burger you might throw on the barbecue. But this one is entirely plant-based, its key found in a sort of "plant blood" developed by Patrick Brown, a Stanford biochemistry professor and CEO of startup venture Impossible Foods. Brown,... More » Newser located this story for you on Thursday, October 9, 2014 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Science, Lifestyle.
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Mysterious Shipwreck Lies Beneath New York Lake
(Newser) - Divers were scanning the bottom of an Upstate New York lake last year when they stumbled upon a 19th-century boat, well-preserved but mysterious. Experts don't know the name of the canal boat in Cayuga Lake, nor do they know when it sank, the Ithaca Journal reports. They do know... More » Newser located this story for you on Thursday, October 9, 2014 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Science.
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Facebook May Be Prepping 'Anonymity' App
(Newser) - Facebook may have been peeved about people not using their real names on its main site, but it's apparently willing to try out anonymity on mobile devices. The company is said to be working on a stand-alone app that would allow users to interact without having to provide their... More » Newser located this story for you on Thursday, October 9, 2014 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Technology.
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Road Work Leads to Discovery of WWII Graffiti
(Newser) - An Israeli construction project to widen a major road unexpectedly uncovered a 1,900-year-old ritual bath and a 1,700-year-old water cistern. But when archaeologists went to inspect the finds, they found engravings left by two Australian soldiers on the water cistern's exposed ceiling. The marks were nothing fancy—... More » Newser located this story for you on Thursday, October 9, 2014 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Science.
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US Malaria Experiments in 1940s Left Troops 'Ruined'
(Newser) - The goal was just, the execution anything but: In the 1940s, the US government pulled together an operation designed to find a cure for malaria, which infected some 500,000 American troops during WWII. How they went about doing so is revealed in Karen Masterson's new book, The Malaria ... More » Newser located this story for you on Thursday, October 9, 2014 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Science.
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Buried Face-Down, 'Witch Girl' Stumps Italy
(Newser) - A 13-year-old girl apparently died peacefully, but the recent discovery of her undated remains in Italy is raising eyebrows. She was buried face-down—a sign that the person was in some way feared or rejected—and she's being dubbed the "witch girl" as a result. "The prone... More » Newser located this story for you on Thursday, October 9, 2014 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Science.
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