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  New Aluminum 'Foam' Makes Trains Stronger, Lighter, and Safer

  WIRED - Katherine Kornei

  Commuters may soon be whisked to work in train cars made of aluminum foam, a composite material that’s stronger, lighter, and has better crash-test …

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  More TV Programs Should End as Nobly as Kroll Show

  The Atlantic - David Sims

  Kroll Show, Comedy Central's purposefully grating and blindingly clever satire of reality television, turns comedian Nick Kroll's ensemble of outsized characters into the cast of various intermingled shows-within-a-show. Season three is coming in January, but today broke sad news that those …

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  Straight into Compton: house prices soar as murderous gangs reach truce

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  It is quarter of a century since Straight Outta Compton, the seminal gangsta rap album, made a ten square-mile area of Los Angeles synonymous with gang violence and murder. A lot has changed in Compton since then and, sitting in her office at City Hall, Mayor Aja Brown sees good times ahead. At the …

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  A Copper Bedrail Could Cut Back On Infections For Hospital Patients

  NPR - Hannah Bloch

  Checking into a hospital can boost your chances of infection. That's a disturbing paradox of modern medical care. And it doesn't matter where in the world you're hospitalized. From the finest to the most rudimentary medical facilities, patients are vulnerable to new infections that have nothing to …