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Although his brain was no bigger than a walnut, Alex the African gray parrot could do more than speak and understand — he could also count, identify colors and, according to his owner Irene Pepperberg, develop an emotional relationship.

Comedian Carol Leifer has written for Seinfeld, The Larry Sanders Show, The Ellen Show, and Saturday Night Live. She talks to Fresh Air about her career in comedy, her coming out story, and her memoir, When You Lie About Your Age, The Terrorists Win.

John Hoopingarner of Ohio got an email announcing a bicycle race in Birmingham. He signed up and planned the trip to Alabama before realizing the race was in Birmingham, England. He went any way.

In 1975, charcoal sketches were discovered on the walls of a secret room — hidden below a trapdoor inside Florence's Medici Chapel. Scholars are torn on whether the drawings are by Michelangelo.

The city used a laser to beam its message to a solar system 40 light years away. It features beautiful Kentucky scenery, and includes the molecular structure of a popular Kentucky export: bourbon.

NPR's Michele Norris talks with Don Hewitt, creator and longtime executive producer of the CBS News program 60 Minutes. Hewitt is leaving the show after 35 years. He reflects on the show and his half-century in television news.

The Florida SouthWestern State College theater department is performing seven 10-minute plays this weekend and next. The program is headlined by the world premiere of an homage to legendary artist Robert Rauschenberg, who would have celebrated his 100th birthday October 22.

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Even as the people of Lac-Mégantic whose homes weren't destroyed return, dozens of their neighbors remain missing. The town was devastated Saturday when a freight train derailed and tank cars filled with oil exploded.

CVS would pay about $5 billion and Walgreens more than $5.5 billion, though neither company has admitted wrongdoing. States have until the end of the year to accept the terms of the settlement.

The unauthorized annual skateboard event attracts hundreds of spectators who cheer on skaters as they charge down steep streets surrounding Mission Dolores Park in San Francisco.

With voters in the swing state of Iowa today joining those in two-dozen other states who can already cast their vote for president, experts say the surge in early voting is necessitating a change in campaign strategy.

Frogs are unmatched in their speed and ability to catch prey. It's all about their super-soft tongue and specialized saliva, say researchers, who got saliva to test by scraping frogs' tongues.

NPR’s Ailsa Chang talks to Mother Jones’ Maddie Oatman about her recent reporting revealing how menstrual blood has long been an overlooked source of key medical information.

It took until adulthood for Bonnie Morales, the daughter of immigrant Russian Jews, to appreciate the food of her childhood. Now she owns a popular Oregon restaurant and has released a new cookbook.

She stars in the film as the woman at the center of a scandal in the fashion world. But the actors' Italian accents have been panned, and the Gucci family has criticized the way it was depicted.

Students in Jackson, Miss., are already back at their school desks. The district — like so many in the nation — is working to help students recover academically and emotionally from the pandemic.

Three years after COVID-19 arrived in the U.S., some who have lost loved ones want them and the pandemic to be memorialized.

The Justice Department simulation is meant to show how many barriers formerly incarcerated people face after they are released. (Story aired on Weekend All Things Considered on July 8, 2023.)

Lafley helped launch the bayfront destination; Crockatt runs it now. Both love the same parts of the park.

The internet-famous Lofi Girl music stream went down last weekend. The takedown reignited concerns over copyright protections for artists.

A nationwide shotgun shell shortage is making it harder for Alaska Natives to hunt for food. Migratory birds are a main source of sustenance for many rural communities at this time of year.

You don't expect fourth-graders to be wise. They're still boys. But one, who was playing and ruminating on his back patio, had a knack for cosmology seemingly well beyond his years.

A mother tells her daughter what it was like being at the Pentagon when a jet tore through the building on Sept. 11, 2001.

Austen Ivereigh, author of a new biography of Pope Francis, says the media have misjudged the pope's comments on abortion and homosexuality — but that Francis is a radical in other respects.