Ile Kauppila

This is one of those bizarre stories that you couldn’t make up if you tried. Adoption can quite literally save a child’s life. Kids need a secure environment to grow up and fly right, and adopting a disadvantaged child is a great way to give them a new start. With that in mind, it is pretty awkward when the little girl you adopted turns out to be a middle-aged woman.

Who leaves a child’s eyeball on an Uber?! It’s late at night, and you’re on your way home in an Uber. The following morning, you realize you left something in the car. That’s a common story, but sometimes people forget something more than phones or wallets. For a decade now, Uber has compiled annual lists of the weirdest things people have reported as missing after an Uber ride. The 10th anniversary edition just came out, and it sure has some bizarre stuff.

Los Alamos sits on four mesas amidst the Jemez Mountains of northern New Mexico. The town has been made famous by its three Ns: nukes, native dwellings, and national sites. In the popular mind, Los Alamos is likely best known for being the birthplace of the atomic bomb. This most devastating of weapons was developed in the closing years of World War II at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, which headquartered the Manhattan Project.