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- Autonomous passenger planes could be a reality by 2025.
- Los Angeles' architecture can definitely get pretty....quirky.
- If you need any proof that e-sports are a real thing, China now has more e-sport "athletes"(?) and fans than theentire population of the United Kingdom.
- Turns out that pregnant women with sleeping disorders are twice as likely to deliver prematurely.
- Neuroscientists want to figure out exactly how taste receptors connect to neurons on the way to the brain.
- A rather timely take on nuclear diplomacy.
- Take a look at this Valley Girl contest from 1982:
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