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Monday, July 14, 2014

Amoebas Eat Contact Lens Wearer's Eyeballs (Newser Happy Hour 6-pack)

The day's six most popular stories, in time to unwind.

Amoebas Eat Contact Lens Wearer's Eyeballs

(Newser) - Doctors hope a horrifying story out of Taiwan will help drive home the importance of proper hygiene for wearers of contact lenses. A 23-year-old student lost her eyesight after buying contact lenses that were supposed to be worn for one month and leaving them in around the clock for six... More »

Target Worker: I Reported Shoplifting Cop, Got Fired

(Newser) - On May 27, Dallas Northington, who had worked for Target in loss prevention for almost eight years, reported an alleged shoplifter to police in Leesburg, Va. But the man in question—shown on two surveillance videos—may be a sheriff's deputy in a neighboring county, and within days Northington... More »

'Dead' Toddler Wakes Up at Own Funeral

(Newser) - Mourners at a funeral yesterday for a 3-year-old Filipino girl received quite a shock when the toddler suddenly started to move during church services, reports the Philippine Star . According to the local police chief, who sent dispatchers to verify the incident, funeral attendees in the province of Aurora said a... More »

Scientists Create 'Super Black' That Our Eye Can't See

(Newser) - Imagine an object so black that you could stare right at it and see nothing at all. That object can now exist, thanks to a British nanotechnology company. Surrey Nanosystems has created a new "super black" coating that absorbs 99.96% of light, which is to say, all light... More »

Oklahoma Hit by 11 Quakes—in 2 Days

(Newser) - Something shook Oklahoma all night long over the weekend—and it wasn’t the neighbors playing AC/DC too loud. The US Geological Survey recorded 11 small earthquakes, most in the magnitude 2.6 to 2.9 range, over Saturday and yesterday, reports the AP ; Tulsa World has a list. The... More »

Costa Concordia Is Upright Again

(Newser) - More than two years after it capsized off the coast of an Italian island, CNN reports that workers have refloated the Costa Concordia in the final phase of the biggest-ever passenger ship salvage. In an operation expected to take up to a week, air was pumped into tanks attached to... More »