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Tuesday, November 4, 2014

Branson: I'll Still Be on Virgin's First Space Flight (Newser Daily Digest)

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Branson: I'll Still Be on Virgin's First Space Flight

Branson: I'll Still Be on Virgin's First Space Flight

(Newser) - The crash of Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo on Friday has unsurprisingly failed to deter Richard Branson: He'll still be on his company's first flight to space, he tells CNN. "There is no way I would ask others to go on a Virgin Galactic flight if I didn'... More  »
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$2B in Lottery Winnings Unclaimed Last Year

$2B in Lottery Winnings Unclaimed Last Year

(Newser) - Who buys lottery tickets and then doesn't bother to check if they won? A huge number of Americans, according to the creator of a new app that lets people know if they have winning tickets. LottoLotto creator Brett Jacobson tells CNN that he filed public-records requests around the country... More  »
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'American Psycho' Banker's Trades Were Being Probed

'American Psycho' Banker's Trades Were Being Probed

(Newser) - Was Rurik Jutting a white-collar criminal before he was accused of two grisly murders in Hong Kong? The British investment banker was part of a Bank of America Merrill Lynch unit involved in "tax-minimization" trades that were being investigated by prosecutors, regulators, and the bank itself, sources tell the... More  »
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Scientists Puzzled by Huge Sunspot

Scientists Puzzled by Huge Sunspot

(Newser) - Scientists scratched their heads this week over a massive sunspot, partly because it posed no threat to human civilization. The burst of solar magnetic activity, one of the biggest on record, whipped up powerful flares but didn't spew coronal mass ejections (CMEs) that can bring down Earth's power... More  »
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Hiker Stumbles Onto 90M-Year-Old Turtle

Hiker Stumbles Onto 90M-Year-Old Turtle

(Newser) - What looked like a pile of weirdly gray rocks was actually something far more significant: a fossil dating back to the dinosaurs, the Las Cruces Sun-News reports. Jeff Dornbusch, a museum volunteer, noticed the gray mound while hiking in New Mexico's brown desert landscape more than ten years ago,... More  »
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Couple Ties the Knot After Losing Almost 400 Pounds

Couple Ties the Knot After Losing Almost 400 Pounds

(Newser) - Bill Anderson, 44, had bariatric surgery in May 2008 at Michigan's Henry Ford Wyandotte Hospital to help him gain control of his weight. He eventually got down to about 250 pounds from 459 and has since run two full marathons and more than a dozen half-marathons, the Detroit Free ... More  »
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NPR's 'Car Talk' Guru Dead at 77

NPR's 'Car Talk' Guru Dead at 77

(Newser) - Tom Magliozzi, better known as the elder half of the so-called "Tappet brothers" on NPR's long-running and beloved Car Talk, died today of complications of Alzheimer's, the station confirms . He was 77. Like Ray Magliozzi, his co-host and younger brother by a dozen years, Magliozzi had an... More  »
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Russia Yanks iPhone Statue Over Cook's 'Call to Sodomy'

Russia Yanks iPhone Statue Over Cook's 'Call to Sodomy'

(Newser) - If you were still waiting for over-the-top reaction to Tim Cook's announcement last week that he is gay , we present you with Russia: Apparently outraged by the sexual orientation of the CEO of a California-based technology company, a construction company has taken down a six-foot statue of an iPhone... More  »
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Scientific Study Determines Catchiest Hit Song Ever

Scientific Study Determines Catchiest Hit Song Ever

(Newser) - What makes that earworm an earworm? Musicologists at the University of Amsterdam recently set out to find out, collecting data from 12,000 participants who listened to a random selection from 1,000 hit singles in the UK dating back to the 1940s. The results were unveiled at the Manchester... More  »
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Kevin Spacey's New Villain Is on ... a Video Game

Kevin Spacey's New Villain Is on ... a Video Game

(Newser) - Movies, TV shows, and the stage have long been the domain of actors—but add video games to that list, as Kevin Spacey is doing in the upcoming Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare. Spacey—who has "never played a [video] game in my life," he tells the New ... More  »
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Why One Woman Lived on Dog Food for 6 Days

Why One Woman Lived on Dog Food for 6 Days

(Newser) - Paleo dieter Anne Kadet was getting tired of the high prices of meat and produce, so she found another source of nutrients—one that certainly wasn't made with her in mind. "I couldn’t help notice that my dog’s high-end kibble—like my paleo diet—is high... More  »
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