Discovered: The smoking maggot; closing the 405 freeway in Los Angeles reduced pollution; measuring the edge of a black hole; benzodiazepines connected with dementia.
Do you remember the anarchy that took over the streets of Los Angeles last summer when they closed down a stretch of the 405 and the whole city was upended into complete and uncontrollable chaos? Okay, it wasn't that bad. But it's going to happen again.
The internet-famous image from the Los Angeles freeway shutdown
The closure ended early after a weekend of reconstruction
'Carmageddon? More like Carmaheaven'
Los Angeles commuters snap up dirt cheap JetBlue tickets to bypass gridlock
Next week's closure of a major freeway has a city of drivers scrambling
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