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Frogtown: A wonderfully weird creative hub blossoms along the L.A. River

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Turn onto the wrong street from Riverside Drive and you might never find it. You’ll hit the 2 or the 5 freeway, or maybe wind up at a side entrance to Home Depot. But once you do enter this neighborhood of single-family homes and low industrial buildings, nestled along the curving, soft-bottom section of the L.A. River, you’ll know that you’re in a part of Los Angeles like no other—secret and self-contained, where the hum of industry is quieted by a blanket of tranquility that seems to emanate from the river. Read More...

New Scientific Study Finds Vaping Can Shrink Male Testicles'?

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Adult Smoking Cessation—The Use of E-Cigarettes. 3 May 2022, https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/sgr/2020-smoking-cessation/fact-sheets/adult-smoking-cessation-e-cigarettes-use/index.html. Archive, View Author, and Get author RSS feed. Vaping Can Shrink Testicles, Cause Sperm Counts to Plummet: Study. 4 Sept. 2023, https://nypost.com/2023/09/04/vaping-can-shrink-testicles-cause-sperm-counts-to-plummet-study/. Buntajova, Diana. "Vaping Could Shrink Your Testicles and Reduce Sperm Count, New Study Warns." Express.Co.Uk, 7 Sept. 2023, https://www.express.co.uk/life-style/health/1810293/vaping-shrink-testicles-reduce-sperm-count. Cotinine Factsheet | National Biomonitoring Program | CDC. 2 Sept. 2021, https://www.cdc.gov/biomonitoring/Cotinine_FactSheet.html. Holmboe, Stine Agergaard, et al. "Use of E-Cigarettes Associated with Lower Sperm Counts in a Cross-Sectional Study of Young Men from the General Population. Read More...

1952 Aston Martin DB3

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After a long developmental period, Aston Martin replaced the DB2 with the smaller, more experimental DB3. The program consisted of 10 cars that raced for two years. DB3s were seldom alike. During the first year of racing many different bodies were affixed to the chassis. Some cars had coupe bodywork which proved unstable at high speeds. The engine in the DB3 was an evolved version of W.O. Bentley’s postwar Lagonda engine. Read More...