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Thursday, July 3, 2014

Unwed Parents' 'Magic Moment' Lasts 'Til Kid Is 3 (Newser Daily Digest)

Unwed Parents' 'Magic Moment' Lasts 'Til Kid Is 3

(Newser) - Attention, unmarried-and-maybe-procrastinating parents of the world: Conventional wisdom has long held that you have a "magic moment," or window, after the birth of your child in which it's most likely you'll put a ring on things. But new research from Duke University shows that the magic... More »

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Ancient Meteorite Unlocks Space Puzzle

(Newser) - Almost 500 million years ago in the Ordovician Period, two large bodies in the asteroid belt collided. Two asteroids, or an asteroid and a comet, blew apart and their debris and dust fell to Earth. One of these large bodies was the source of all the L-chondrite meteorites that have... More »

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At Unstaffed Coffee Shop, You're on Your Honor

(Newser) - At The Vault coffee shop in North Dakota, you can get a cup of joe, a cup of tea, a pastry. But you get it yourself and you ring yourself up—and when you do, you're on your honor at what The Vault's owner thinks is the only... More »

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Rape Isn't Always Men Raping Women

(Newser) - Richard Morgan never intended to write about his rape. But then he realized that, despite ample statistics to prove that men are frequently rape victims—one in 33 has been the victim of at least attempted rape, and 12.9% have been sexually assaulted—he'd "never heard a... More »

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Target 'Respectfully' Says Leave Your Guns at Home

(Newser) - Please don't bring your .38 to Target anymore. The company—whose logo is, ironically, basically a shooting range target—has "respectfully" requested that customers keep their firearms at home and out of stores—even in communities where carrying a gun in public is legal, USA Today reports. Moms... More »

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The Surprising Way Kangaroos Use Their Tails

(Newser) - Red kangaroos, the largest of the kangaroo species in Australia, don't just use their tails to jump high and fast. When they're grazing for food, in fact, their tails are able to generate enough force that they propel the kangaroo rather like a fifth leg—a trait scientists... More »

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Coming Soon: Emoji-Only Social Network

(Newser) - The standard English keyboard is so last year. Emojis are all the rage, and one company plans to monopolize on the trend ... by introducing an emoji-only social network. There are no words on Emojli; even your username has to be emoji. The founders plan to launch a messaging app late... More »

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$43M Quest: Solve Mystery of Rarest Diseases

(Newser) - They're baffling, mysterious, confounding: the rarest of rare diseases, ones that often plague no more than 50 people on the globe. The quest to diagnose them is getting a big boost from the National Institutes of Health, which yesterday announced the creation of a an "Undiagnosed Diseases Network.... More »

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Triceratops Horns Were 1M Years in Making

(Newser) - The rhino-like Triceratops, Greek for "three-horned face," didn't always embody its name in way we picture it doing. By comparing 50 skulls collected over a 15-year period from the Hell Creek Formation in Montana, paleontologists have learned that it took between 1 million and 2 million years... More »

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Regulators Take Stern Look at Facebook Study

(Newser) - Facebook's controversial emotional manipulation study has users outraged and, at least in Europe, regulators are responding. The study has prompted "several" European data protection agencies, including Britain's Information Commissioner's Office and Ireland's Office of the Data Protection Commissioner, to look into whether Facebook broke privacy... More »

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