Solved: The mystery of the pasta in the New Jersey woods
Hundreds of pounds of pasta was found dumped illegally in the woods in New Jersey last week. Neighbors say they know how it got there.
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A massive dump of pasta in New Jersey sets off a fury of interest, and also a fury
"My initial reaction is exactly what yours was," a resident of Old Bridge, N.J., told NPR about the pounds of pasta found along a local brook. "It was funny and humorous and mortifying."
A duck gives a homeless man a new lease on life
A wayward duck helped a man in crisis and opened up a whole world of wildlife, death and reproduction he never imagined he would find in a Kansas City creek.
This company adopted AI. Here's what happened to its human workers
A group of economists conducted one of the first empirical studies of "generative AI" at a real-world company. They found it had big effects.
The guy who ate a $120,000 banana in an art museum says he was just hungry
The banana installation by artist Maurizio Cattelan evokes everything from slapstick comedy to global trade. But to a college student, it was a reminder of how very hungry he was.
Arkansas woman pleads not guilty to selling over 20 boxes of stolen human body parts
She was hired to cremate medical cadavers. But first, she harvested organs, skin and genitalia and sold them to a man she met through a Facebook group called Oddities, according to court documents.
A bus driver in Michigan fainted at the wheel. Then a 7th-grader took control
The driver called the transportation base to tell them she was feeling dizzy and lost consciousness seconds later. Dillon Reeves immediately sprung into action and safely stopped the bus.
Thousands of little blue creatures are washing up on California beaches
The tiny disc-like critters are known as Velella velella, a name so nice you gotta say it twice.
A woman gets 21 years for trying to kill her doppelganger with poisoned cheesecake
Viktoria Nasyrova was convicted in February and sentenced this week in New York. Her lawyer says she'll eventually likely get deported back to Russia — where she's wanted for a 2014 murder.
A Spanish athlete spent 500 days alone in a cave — for science
Beatriz Flamini was 48 when she entered the Granada cave in November 2021, and 50 when she emerged on Friday. Her experiment aims to shed light on the physical and mental effects of isolation.