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• Packing Hacks: How To Get Everything You Need For A Trip Into 1 Carry-On Bag
  With some planning, you can get everything you need for a trip down to one carry-on bag. Road warriors share their hacks — so you can travel with a lot less hassle.
• Beyond The Grind: Find Meaning In Travel — Abroad Or In Your Backyard
  You can discover new things about the world when you travel, or even — if you apply a traveler's mindset — close to home. "It takes humility," says artist and author Jenny Odell.
• 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.