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• VIDEO: Move Objects With Your Mind? We're Getting There, With The Help Of An Armband
  You know "the Force" that binds all things — the one that can let your mind move objects? The latest Future You video demos an armband that allows users to control objects with thoughts.
• Higher, Better, Stronger, Faster — Brain Science Is Trying To Get There
  A headset that electrically stimulates your brain while you practice a motor skill claims to help you improve in less time. What might this mean for human abilities by 2050?
• Can You Travel In Groups Without Going Crazy? NPR Wants To Hear From You
  NPR is putting together a guide on navigating the social dynamics of travel, and we need your help. Tell us, how do you deal with group dynamics when traveling?
• How Computer-Assisted Telepathy Helps Humans Communicate
  The next phase of human evolution seems headed toward merging biological bodies with machines. In the first video of Future You, Elise Hu connects to a network and plays a game with her thoughts.
• How Mind-Controlled Robot Suits Could Enhance Our Limbs
  In Episode 2 of Future You, Elise Hu explores mind-controlled exoskeletons that could let paralyzed people walk or the able-bodied gain super strength.
• Netflix's 'Tuca & Bertie' Puts The Lady Birds In Charge
  In bringing a cartoon toucan and an anxious songbird to screen, show creator Lisa Hanawalt has done something still rare: made an animated show about women friends, by women friends.
• The Sex Scandals Shaking K-Pop And A Reckoning Over How South Korea Regards Women
  Several K-pop stars have admitted to being involved in the practice of "spycamming" in Korea — secretly recording sexual acts without the partner's notice and posting those videos online.
• Thousands Of Fire Evacuees To Spend The Holiday Without Homes
  The community shaken by California's Camp Fire is finding ways to come together for Thanksgiving.
• For Wildfire Evacuees, Bureaucratic Nightmare Begins
  As the deadly Camp Fire burns in Northern California, people who lost their homes face a new struggle: lost paperwork. They're finding out what that means as they try to rebuild their lives.
• North Korea Begins Dismantling Missile Site, Images Show
  Satellite imagery shows North Korea is taking apart a rocket and engine site on its western coast. The action follows a promise made at last month's U.S.-North Korea summit in Singapore.
• Update On North Korea Nuclear Talks
  Officials in the U.S. and North Korea continue to offer contradicting reports on whether their recent meeting in Pyongyang was productive.
• Pompeo Meets With North Koreans Over Nuclear Program
  The meetings happened amid growing concern North Korea is not taking steps toward denuclearization — and uncertainty as to what each side meant when they committed to it.
• Anti-Refugee Backlash In South Korea Targets Yemenis Fleeing War And Seeking Asylum
  More than 500 Yemenis are awaiting asylum decisions on a South Korean resort island that allowed them to arrive visa-free. Their presence has sparked nationwide protests.
• After A Stop In China, Defense Secretary Mattis Heads To South Korea
  Defense Secretary Jim Mattis is in Seoul, where he's expected to discuss the drawdown of military exercises with South Korea, and the repatriation of the remains of U.S. soldiers from the Korean War.
• Pompeo Meets Allies In South Korea
  Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is in South Korea talking to U.S. allies after President Trump's meeting with Kim Jong Un.