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  Jess Read

  

  A rogue woman is pooping all over the streets of Colorado

  Daily Dot - David Britton

  This jogger isn't letting a little poop slow her down. Next to public speaking, public pooping has to be the greatest fear of most Americans. Some …

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  Jess Read

  

  Kitten to blame for today’s awful morning commute

  New York Post - Danielle Furfaro

  Looks as if Joe Lhota’s gone soft on kitten crime. Instead of running over a little lost kitty in a subway tunnel in Brooklyn on Monday — as the MTA …

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  Jess Read

  

  Doctors Report Removing 27 Contact Lenses From A Woman's Eye

  NPR - Bill Chappell

  It wasn't old age, or disease: A "bluish foreign body" that was found in an English woman's eye turned out to be a mass of contact lenses, surprising medical staff who were preparing the woman, 65, for routine cataract surgery. They report pulling 27 lenses from the woman's eye. "She was quite …

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  Jess Read

  

  AI can predict if you'll die soon by examining your organs

  Engadget - Steve Dent

  The algorithms predicted patient mortality 69 percent of the time. When not stealing blue collar jobs, robots are becoming Dr. House, diagnosing maladies like breast and skin cancer with aplomb. Scientists at the University of Adelaide have pushed it to a morbid new level, however, with an AI system …

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  Jess Read

  

  A group of Dutch children may sue their sperm donor father on grounds that they 'should not exist'

  Business Insider - Ben Mathis-Lilley

  A court in the Netherlands ruled Friday that a group of Dutch families can conduct DNA tests to determine whether their children were fathered by the deceased director of a fertility clinic who's suspected of substituting his own sperm for that of listed donors. Midway through the BBC's write-up of …

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  Jess Read

  

  Vietnamese man kills fellow wedding guest in karaoke dispute

  The Guardian - Agence France-Presse in Hanoi

  Nguyen Ngoc Diep, 44, allegedly went on stabbing spree at wedding party in southern Vietnam after another guest mocked his karaoke performance A man at a wedding in southern Vietnam murdered a fellow guest and seriously injured another after he was booed off stage during a karaoke performance, …