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Pope: Kids Deserve a Mom and Dad
(Newser) - Despite a recent move toward embracing non-traditional families , Pope Francis said yesterday that "children have a right to grow up in a family with a father and a mother." He made the remark during the Complementarity of Man and Woman conference, a "gathering of global religious conservatives"... More » Newser located this story for you on Tuesday, November 18, 2014 7:04 AM. The story matched your section(s) Lifestyle.
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Forecast in Every State: Freezing
(Newser) - It's expected to be freezing today … in every state. In what the Weather Channel calls an arctic surge, cold air moving south and east is behind the phenomenon. The Upper Midwest and Great Lakes may see one of the region's longest-ever sub-freezing periods in November, while Buffalo,... More » Newser located this story for you on Tuesday, November 18, 2014 7:04 AM. The story matched your section(s) Science.
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Japan PM Calls Snap Election Next Month
(Newser) - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe called a snap election for December and put off a sales tax hike planned for next year, vowing today to step down if his strategy to revive the ailing economy falls flat. Despite Abe's aggressive revival policies to end two decades of stagnation, the... More » Newser located this story for you on Tuesday, November 18, 2014 7:04 AM. The story matched your section(s) Money.
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Oxford's Word of 2014: Vape
(Newser) - Oxford Dictionaries says it tries to reflect what's happening in society with its word of the year, and this seems to have been a smoke-heavy year: "Vape"—"to inhale and exhale the vapor produced by an electronic cigarette or similar device"—was this year's... More » Newser located this story for you on Tuesday, November 18, 2014 7:04 AM. The story matched your section(s) Lifestyle.
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Since 1992, World Ship Traffic Has Exploded 300%
(Newser) - In the 20 years between 1992 and 2012, there was a huge explosion in traffic in every shipping lane in the world apart from the pirate-infested waters off Somalia, according to a new study. Researchers used satellite data to estimate shipping traffic worldwide and found that there had been a... More » Newser located this story for you on Tuesday, November 18, 2014 7:04 AM. The story matched your section(s) Money.
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Mom: Why I Adopted a Frozen Embryo
(Newser) - Liz Krainman calls her 4-month-old baby boy a "snowflake," but not because he looks so cute. Little Sammy is actually one of several children in Krainman's embryo adoption group with that nickname. "We sometimes lovingly call our frozen embryos snowflakes," she says. "It fits... More » Newser located this story for you on Tuesday, November 18, 2014 7:04 AM. The story matched your section(s) Lifestyle.
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Facebook Gives Political Campaigns the Boot
(Newser) - Facebook is putting the kibosh on a powerful tool that political campaigns (like President Obama's in 2012) have used to reach young voters, Yahoo reports. By next April, Facebook will have completed an overhaul that prevents third-party apps from gathering information about people who use the same app. What'... More » Newser located this story for you on Tuesday, November 18, 2014 7:04 AM. The story matched your section(s) Technology.
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Airbus Wants to Patent Giant 'Flying Doughnut'
(Newser) - If you were thinking of designing an aircraft shaped sort of like an enormous doughnut, we have some bad news for you: Airbus has already called it. The company has filed a patent application for a passenger aircraft in that very shape, the Financial Times reports. Why go for the... More » Newser located this story for you on Tuesday, November 18, 2014 7:04 AM. The story matched your section(s) Technology.
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Inside the Secret Exhumation of Chopin's Heart
(Newser) - As Frederic Chopin gasped for air on his deathbed in Paris in 1849, he whispered a request: "Remove my heart after I die and entomb it in Poland," the native land he pined for from his self-imposed exile in France. Ever since, the composer's body has rested... More » Newser located this story for you on Tuesday, November 18, 2014 7:04 AM. The story matched your section(s) Science.
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I Wish My Wife Made Brittany Maynard's Choice
(Newser) - The Vatican described Brittany Maynard's choice to end her own life as "reprehensible," and it wasn't alone in that sentiment, writes John La Grange. He recounts one of the many lines of thought he heard: that Maynard's husband should have fought against her choice, so... More » Newser located this story for you on Tuesday, November 18, 2014 7:04 AM. The story matched your section(s) Lifestyle.
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How One Guy Makes $1M a Year Playing 'Call of Duty'
(Newser) - His name is Matt Haag, but he's better known by his video game identity, Nadeshot—a moniker under which he makes almost $1 million a year playing Call of Duty. Sure, the 22-year-old's job is to press buttons, but he and his team have a dietician keeping them... More » Newser located this story for you on Tuesday, November 18, 2014 7:04 AM. The story matched your section(s) Technology.
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Latest Federal Hacking Victim: State Department
(Newser) - The good news: The hackers that recently accessed the State Department's computer networks got their hands on unclassified information only. The slightly more worrisome news: The State Department is the fourth federal agency to fall prey to computer security breaches over the past couple of months, joining the White... More » Newser located this story for you on Tuesday, November 18, 2014 7:04 AM. The story matched your section(s) Technology.
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5-Year-Old Passes Microsoft Exam
(Newser) - Ayan Qureshi is a Microsoft Certified Professional—but not just any professional. Having passed the requisite exam last month at the age of 5 years and 11 months (or "5.11," as per his website ), the UK resident is the youngest officially recognized computer specialist in the... More » Newser located this story for you on Tuesday, November 18, 2014 7:04 AM. The story matched your section(s) Technology.
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Scientists Explore Mysterious 'End of World' Crater
(Newser) - When a mysterious crater was discovered this past summer on the Yamal Peninsula in northern Siberia, origin theories abounded, including it being the work of extraterrestrials, a man-made hoax, a meteorite, or the result of a stray missile colliding with the surface of the Earth. Now that it's cold... More » Newser located this story for you on Tuesday, November 18, 2014 7:04 AM. The story matched your section(s) Science.
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In a French Kiss, You Swap More Than Spit
(Newser) - A kiss is just a kiss—except for when it's a major bacteria conduit. A new study published in Microbiome takes a look at what happens when we kiss intimately, and finds that 10 seconds of passion can result in the transfer of up to 80 million bacteria. Dutch... More » Newser located this story for you on Tuesday, November 18, 2014 7:04 AM. The story matched your section(s) Science, Lifestyle.
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