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Another Country Adopts Euro (Newser Daily Digest)

Another Country Adopts Euro

(Newser) - Lithuania's lita is about to join the drachma, guilder, and Deutschmark in the pages of history: The country has became the 19th to adopt the euro, despite polls showing around half the population against membership, and the old national currency will no longer be accepted by mid-January, reports Reuters... More »

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Star Economist Doesn't Want France's Top Honor

(Newser) - The French economist whose 685-page Capital in the Twenty-First Century became a surprise 2014 bestseller has rejected the country's top honor, saying the government should concentrate on fixing the economy instead of giving out awards. "I refuse this nomination because I do not think it is the government'... More »

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$465 Surgery Saves Constipated Goldfish

(Newser) - Strange adventures in pet ownership: A UK man noticed that his beloved goldfish was constipated, brought him to the vet, learned that it would cost roughly $465 for surgery, left the vet because it would be crazy to pay that kind of money for a goldfish, returned guiltily 10 minutes... More »

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Elon Musk, Wife Split; She Gets $16M Cash

(Newser) - When Elon Musk split with wife Talulah Riley for the first time, he told the whole world. "It was an amazing four years. I will love you forever," the entrepreneur tweeted to the British actress in January 2012. "You will make someone very happy one day."... More »

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Your New Year's Resolutions Are Just Helping the 1%

(Newser) - If your New Year's resolution has to do with fitness, your self-improvement goals may or may not help you to improve—but they will most definitely improve the situations of the already-rich, writes William Davies in Salon . "There is ... a particular affinity between consumer culture and that January... More »

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80% of Dark Web Traffic Revolves Around Pedophilia

(Newser) - Between March and September of last year, four out of five visits to a major part of the Dark Web—the anonymous corner of the Internet—were to sites exhibiting the sexual abuse of children, says a new study picked up by Wired . These sites account for only 2% of... More »

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Like People, Drunk Finches Sing Terribly

(Newser) - Not many people count getting zebra finches drunk as their job. But researchers at the Oregon Health and Science University did just that to study how alcohol affects the birds' ability to sing—and to learn more about how it affects the human brain, Smithsonian reports. Birds are a great... More »

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