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Friday, October 31, 2014

World's Richest Add $500K Per Minute (Newser Daily Digest)

World's Richest Add $500K Per Minute

(Newser) - The global charity Oxfam has a new report pointing out that the number of billionaires in the world has doubled since the financial crisis. Specifically, the billionaires' club has grown from 793 in March 2009 to 1,645 in March 2014, reports CNBC . Oxfam says the rising numbers are another... More »

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Reaction to Gross Pictures Can Predict Political Leaning

(Newser) - What can pictures of maggot infestations, mutilated animals, dirty toilets, and rotting corpses tell you about a person's political affiliation? A lot, apparently. Researchers led by Virginia Tech studied the reactions of people's brains as the subjects looked at disgusting images, and they found that the strength of... More »

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Lowe's Holiday Help: Robots

(Newser) - Retailers typically hire more workers to help out around the holidays, but Lowe's is taking an especially novel approach to this year's seasonal staff: putting robots to work. The OSHbot will be available for customer service tasks at the company's Orchard Hardware Supply store in San Jose,... More »

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Almost All the Bathrooms in This Country Are 'Wrong'

(Newser) - You have until tomorrow to vote on the winner of this year's " America's Best Restroom " contest, but Rick Paulas has news for you—nearly all of the bathrooms in America are complete failures. He runs down his reasoning at Pacific Standard : The toilet: It's actually... More »

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Widower's Dinner Date: Photo of Late Wife

(Newser) - Determined not to forget his true love after her death five years ago, an elderly man has been bringing along a photo of her during his outings to a California burger joint. Multiple patrons have spotted the widower at an In-N-Out Burger, seated with a photo of his deceased wife... More »

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New Frog Species Has Croak Unlike Any Other

(Newser) - A few years ago, researcher Jeremy Feinberg was looking into why the New York City area's southern leopard frog had disappeared when he stumbled onto a strange call between a bunch of frogs on Staten Island. The chuck, chuck, chuck sound his team heard was definitely different from the... More »

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Study: Your 3rd Kid Doesn't Make You Happier

(Newser) - Parents' happiness soars with their first child, but that increase is cut in half by their second, and there's only a negligible increase in happiness by the time the third comes along, a new study finds. What's more, parents who are the most educated and who give birth... More »

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'Fireball Whisky' Yanked Over Antifreeze Ingredient

(Newser) - Fireball Cinnamon Whisky is red-hot in the US and gaining traction abroad, becoming especially big at frat parties and recently declared the "most popular shot for college students," reports the Daily Beast . But a batch of the whisky that "Tastes like Heaven, Burns like Hell" has... More »

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Apple CEO Tim Cook: I'm Proud to Be Gay

(Newser) - Many of Tim Cook's colleagues already knew he was gay, but the Apple CEO decided to tell the world at large when he realized that "my desire for personal privacy has been holding me back from doing something more important," he writes in a column in Bloomberg ... More »

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