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2-Year-Old Dies After Serving as Parents' Best Man

They moved up date for terminally ill Logan Stevenson

(Newser) - A sad coda to the story about a terminally ill 2-year-old boy who served as his parents' best man over the weekend: Logan Stevenson has died, reports NBC News . Mom Christina announced the news on her Facebook page . She and new husband Sean scrapped plans for a 2014 wedding and...

Dying Toddler Will Be Best Man for Parents

Pittsburgh-area boy has just weeks to live

(Newser) - Christine Swidorsky and Sean Stevenson were supposed to get married in July of next year, but they moved the date up to tomorrow instead for one important reason: so their 2-year-old son, Logan, can serve as best man, reports the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review . Doctors have given the toddler, who has battled...

We Don&#39;t Sleep as Well During a Full Moon

 The Full Moon 
 Messes With 
 Your Sleep 
study says
Jul 26, 2013 3:46 AM CDT

The Full Moon Messes With Your Sleep

Even when we don't know about it: study

(Newser) - OK, you probably won't become a werewolf, but there is evidence that the full moon really does take a toll on people—even if they don't know it's out there. Scientists reviewed data in which subjects slept in a darkened room where they couldn't see the...

Daughter Finds Missing Mom... 52 Years Later

Alive and well in the Yukon with a whole new family

(Newser) - When Lucy Johnson was reported missing in Surrey, BC, in 1965—four years after she actually disappeared—police suspected her husband. They even dug up his yard, but no trace of the woman was ever found. That is, until Johnson's daughter, Linda Evans, who was seven or eight when...

Storm's Gift: Message in Bottle From Dead Daughter

Sidonie Fery's message washes ashore 12 years later

(Newser) - At first glance, the green plastic ginger ale bottle on the beach looked just like another of the billions of pieces of debris splayed across Northeast coastlines after Superstorm Sandy. But this bottle, which would fetch a nickel at the recycling center, is worth everything to a grieving mother who...

Guys, You're 12% Hotter in a Plain White T

And it's particularly effective for the less fit

(Newser) - Note to guys re: looking good: Keep it simple, with a secret weapon. A plain white T-shirt can make a man some 12% more attractive to women, and it actually appears to work better for men who are less shapely, scientists find. Such shirts make the shoulders look broader and...

Napoleon-Era Telegraph Revolutionized Communication

Rudimentary system sent messages over great distances quickly

(Newser) - If the telegraph is like old-school email, then this is like old-school telegraph: The BBC takes a look at a system of distance communication developed by a French inventor in the late 1790s that seems crude by today's standards but was ingenious in its day. Claude Chappe's telegraph—...

Message in a Bottle Surfaces, 97 Years Later
 Message in a 
 Bottle Surfaces, 
 97 Years Later 
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Jun 22, 2013 12:24 PM CDT

Message in a Bottle Surfaces, 97 Years Later

Bottle sunk to bottom of St. Clair River

(Newser) - On June 30, 1915, Selina Pramstaller and Tillie Esper wrote a brief message during a trip to a Michigan amusement park on Harsens Island, sealed it in a bottle, and dropped it in the St. Clair River. Last June, almost exactly 97 years later, diver Dave Leander found it at...

4 Animals With Crazy Abilities
 4 Animals With Crazy Abilities 
Jun 18, 2013 7:06 PM CDT

4 Animals With Crazy Abilities

Sierra Club list includes tigers, thanks to their whiskers

(Newser) - How does a tiger know when its prey is dead? It uses its ultra-sensitive whiskers to detect a pulse, or lack thereof. So says the Sierra Club in rounding up four animals with "superhero" abilities. Those whiskers have sensitive nerve endings, and after a tiger takes down its prey,...

Town Delivers Dog Poop Back to Owners Who Didn't Pick It Up

Brunete has seen drastic reduction in offenses, official says

(Newser) - A Spanish town has come up with an innovative way to deal with the problem of dog owners who don't clean up after their pets: mail the poop back to the owners. Officials in Brunete recruited 20 volunteers to keep an eye out for offenders, the Local reports. When...

One Key to Finland's Healthy Infants: A Cardboard Box

Among other things, it doubles as a bed for newborns

(Newser) - Finland has one of the lowest rates of infant mortality in the world, and the BBC gives a good chunk of the credit to a cardboard box and the philosophy behind it. For 75 years now, the nation has provided a box filled with clothes, toys, and all manner of...

Dead Guy Writes Own Obituary, and It&#39;s Awesome
Dead Guy Writes Own Obituary, and It's Awesome
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Jun 8, 2013 12:55 PM CDT

Dead Guy Writes Own Obituary, and It's Awesome

Jack Holden touts his life of 'endless laughter and debauchery'

(Newser) - At first glance, John E. "Jack" Holden's obituary doesn't seem very ... respectful. Referring to Holden's death as "taking the Deep Six," it also claims the WWII veteran won "the Distinguished Fleeing Cross for avoiding numerous women who were seeking child support under unproven...

American Woman Key to Cracking Ancient Code

Michael Ventris built off Alice Kober's notes to crack Linear B

(Newser) - The British genius known for decoding a then-unknown 3,500-year-old language may not have been all he was cracked up to be. According to newly catalogued archives, Michael Ventris, who decoded Linear B in 1952, owes much of his praise to an American woman. "Alice Kober is the great...

Cell Network Wiped Out by ... Beer Fridge

Engineers say motor's electric sparks caused blackout

(Newser) - Beer truly is the cause of (and solution to) all of life's problems. Or at least this problem: An Aussie telecom company investigating the cause of network blackouts near Melbourne tracked the disturbance to ... a bloke's beer fridge. Technicians believe electric sparks emitted from the fridge's motor...

Boy, 10, Fights Off Intruders With Their Own Gun

Scares home invaders out of Brooklyn house

(Newser) - A 10-year-old in Brooklyn appears to be well on his way to becoming Batman. The New York Post reports that two armed men, pretending to be FedEx deliverymen, invaded the boy's home last night, ordering two teens to remain in the living room. Then one of the men made...

Ancient University to Admit First Students in Centuries

Nalanda University, destroyed in 1193, to be resurrected

(Newser) - Oxford, Harvard, and ... Nalanda? In the annals of history, Nalanda University endures as one of the world's preeminent learning institutions, and one that came centuries before its more recognizable counterparts. If a group of officials and scholars have their way, that will soon change. The northern India university was...

Guy Lives With Pencil in Head for 15 Years

4-inch writing implement probably lodged there after childhood fall

(Newser) - When a 24-year-old man sought help after years of headaches, constant colds, and worsening vision in one eye, he probably wasn't expecting this to be the reason: Doctors found a 4-inch pencil lodged from his sinus to his pharynx, which had injured his right eye socket. They say he...

WWII Vet Reunited With Lost Dog Tag, 69 Years Later

French woman found it in a farm field

(Newser) - A long-forgotten dog tag that spent the past 69 years in a farm field in France is back in the hands of the western New York veteran who lost it. Irving Mann says he was skeptical when an email from a French woman recently arrived at his Rochester jewelry store....

Woman Finds Slain Beau's WWII Diary—70 Years Later

Young Marine's journal was dedicated to Laura Mae Davis

(Newser) - Before Cpl. Thomas "Cotton" Jones was killed by a Japanese sniper in the South Pacific in 1944, he wrote what he called his "last life request" to anyone who might find his diary: Please give it to Laura Mae Davis, the girl he loved. Davis did get to...

Some of Earth&#39;s Oldest Water Found
 Some of Earth's 
 Oldest Water Found 
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT
May 19, 2013 8:02 AM CDT

Some of Earth's Oldest Water Found

In bedrock in Timmins, Ontario

(Newser) - "Old" might not top the list of the adjectives you'd use to describe water, but that could very well change after reading this story: Scientists say they've found water whose age clocks in at no less than 1.5 billion years, making it the oldest cache to...

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