Mother of 'Baby Moses' pleads guilty to manslaughter in newborn's death
Keri S. Mazzuca, initially charged with murder in the 1997 death of a newborn baby whose body was found in Washington Park, ...
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A Stinky Pilgrimage To The Corpse Flower, With Notes Of Rat, Sweat, And Cheese
Standing five feet away, I could smell it in the air. Acrid, damp, toe-curling—a memory from my past. The nose is a powerful historian, so it took only a few seconds to place it: the stench of the rat ...
Smells like ‘wet socks’ and ‘dead possums’, corpse flower blooms for first time in 10 years
There is something about the stench of corpse flowers that draws curious people far and wide when the giant blooms spew their ...
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New Scientist recommends the corpse flower at Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Recently, at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden in New York, I had a dream come true. I got a whiff of one of the world’s stinkiest ...
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Australians flock to sniff a corpse flower
A rare bloom of a corpse flower — with a pungent odor similar to decaying flesh — has attracted big crowds to a botanical garden in the Australian capital Canberra, the third such extraordinary ...
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Rare ‘corpse flower’ briefly takes NYC by the nose
When a line of people are waiting around in Brooklyn, most people would assume they’re waiting for a concert. Instead, crowds flocked to the Brooklyn Botanic Garden eager to witness, but more ...
Tom Robbins, literary prankster-philosopher, dies at 92
Tom Robbins, the novelist and prankster-philosopher who charmed and addled millions of readers, has died. He was 92.
Tom Robbins, ‘Even Cowgirls Get the Blues’ author who had ‘crazy wisdom,’ dies at 92
NEW YORK — Tom Robbins, the novelist and prankster-philosopher who charmed and addled millions of readers with such screwball ...
Tom Robbins, literary prankster-philosopher, dies at 92, multiple outlets report
Tom Robbins, the novelist and prankster-philosopher who charmed and addled millions of readers with such screwball adventures as “Even Cowgirls Get the ...
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Visitors flock to third blooming of rare stinky corpse flower
A rare flower that smells like decaying flesh was attracting visitors in the Australian capital Canberra for the third ...
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Australia holds its nose for its 3rd rancid bloom of a rare corpse plant in 3 months
The corpse flower, also known by its scientific name amorphophallus titanium, bloomed for the first time in its 15 years at ...