Curiosity Weekly

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  • Tripping to Run, Everest’s Warning, Investigating Planet 9

    Today, you’ll learn about trippy psychedelic drugs that could alter everything we know about mental health, a glacier on Mount Everest that is literally blowing away and an object in the far reaches of our solar system that may or may not be there.

    Psychedelic drugs are making a comeback, but not on the party scene. They could be the future of mental health.

    The Future of Psychedelic Science by Ryan O’Hare

    • https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/220873/the-future-psychedelic-science/

    About Us by Imperial Centre for Psychedelic Research

    • https://www.imperial.ac.uk/psychedelic-research-centre

    Back to the future: Psychedelic drugs in psychiatry by Peter Grinspoon, MD

    • https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/back-to-the-future-psychedelic-drugs-in-psychiatry-202106222508

    The Future Of Psychedelic Medicine Might Skip The Trip by Will Yakowicz

    • https://www.forbes.com/sites/willyakowicz/2021/06/23/the-future-of-psychedelic-medicine-might-skip-the-trip-rick-doblin-bryan-roth-mindmed-darpa-maps

    The worldview-changing drugs poised to go mainstream by Ed Prideaux

    • https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210906-what-if-everyone-took-psychedelics

    Top 10 Hardest-Throwing Pitchers in Baseball by Matthew Jussim

    • https://www.mensjournal.com/sports/top-10-hardest-throwing-pitchers-baseball/

    How Dock Ellis dropped acid and threw a no-hitter by Larry Getlen

    • https://nypost.com/2014/08/31/pitcher-dock-ellis-dropped-acid-then-threw-a-no-hitter/

    A glacier on Mount Everest is literally blowing away. 

    Everest’s Highest Glacier has Lost 2,000 Years of Ice in 30 Years by Brandon Specktor 

    • https://www.livescience.com/mt-everest-highest-glacier-rapid-ice-retreat

    Behind the Scenes of a Comprehensive Scientific Expedition to Mt. Everest by Sandra Elvin, Pete Athans, Paul Mayewski, Jiban Ghimire, Aurora C. Elmore, and Valerie Craig

    • https://www.cell.com/one-earth/fulltext/S2590-3322(20)30536-4

    Glaciers are shrinking fast. Scientists are rushing to figure out how fast by Rebecca Hersher

    • https://www.npr.org/2022/02/08/1079227805/glaciers-are-shrinking-fast-scientists-are-rushing-to-figure-out-how-fast

    Everest expedition with 6 CCI scientists sets 3 world records by UMaine News (Contact: Beth Staples)

    • https://umaine.edu/news/blog/2021/10/06/everest-expedition-with-6-cci-scientists-sets-3-world-records/

    25 of the strangest Guinness World Records ever by USA Today Travel

    • https://www.usatoday.com/picture-gallery/travel/news/2019/10/11/guinness-world-records-25-strangest-records-ever/40145381/

    What is a glacier? by National Snow & Ice Data Center

    • https://nsidc.org/cryosphere/glaciers/questions/what.html

    Why That Giant Ice Cube Is in Your Drink by Anna Archibald

    • https://www.thrillist.com/culture/why-that-giant-ice-cube-in-your-cocktail-is-really-important

    An object in the far reaches of our solar system may or may not actually exist, but scientists are trying to find out for sure.

    If Planet Nine exists, why has no one seen it? by Zaria Gorvett

    • https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210216-the-massive-planet-scientists-cant-find

    Uncovering the mystery of Planet Nine by Lucy Freeman

    • https://www.bbcearth.com/news/uncovering-the-mystery-of-planet-nine

    PLANET 9: OLD DATA COULD UNCOVER THE SOLAR SYSTEM'S NEWEST WORLD, 38 YEARS LATE by Passant Rabie

    • https://www.inverse.com/science/have-scientists-actually-found-planet-9

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    17 min
  • Pee Pee Concrete, Black Diamond from Space, Electric Plane

    Today, you’ll learn about an unusual proposal to use human tinkle to make buildings on Mars, a billion-year-old black diamond with an interstellar history and what it’s going to take for airplanes to become totally electric. 

    A very unusual proposal to use human waste products could allow us to build on Mars. 

    Researchers propose making concrete with human bodily fluids by Hunter Dulay

    • https://sciworthy.com/researchers-propose-making-concrete-with-human-bodily-fluids/

    Mars explorers might make concrete-like materials from their own blood and urine by Amanda Kooser

    • https://www.cnet.com/science/mars-explorers-might-make-concrete-like-materials-from-their-own-blood-and-urine/

    Concrete on Mars Could Literally Be Made Out of Astronaut Blood, Sweat, And Tears by Michelle Starr

    • https://www.sciencealert.com/mars-concrete-could-be-made-out-of-alien-dust-and-astronaut-blood

    Blood, sweat, and tears: extraterrestrial regolith biocomposites with in vivo binders by A.D. Roberts, D.R. Whittall, R. Breitling, E.Takano, J.J. Blaker, S.Hay, and N.S. Scrutton

    • https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2590006421000442#!

    A Brief History of the Flush Toilet by The British Association of Urological Surgeons

    • https://www.baus.org.uk/museum/164/a_brief_history_of_the_flush_toilet

    What is Plasma? by University of Rochester Health Encyclopedia

    • https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/encyclopedia/content.aspx?ContentTypeID=160&ContentID=37#:~:text=The%20main%20role%20of%20plasma,blood%20through%20your%20circulatory%20system.

    A billion-year-old black diamond has an interstellar - and very rich - history.  

    The Enigma: Billion-year-old black diamond sold for £3.16m by BBC News

    • https://www.bbc.com/news/business-60328375

    A Huge Black Diamond, Purportedly From Outer Space, Is Now Up for Sale by Corryn Wetzel

    • https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/a-massive-black-diamond-claimed-to-come-from-space-is-going-on-sale-180979438/

    55-sided, 555-carat 'Enigma' black diamond (potentially from space) goes on sale by Harry Baker

    • https://www.livescience.com/enigma-black-diamond-auction

    Enigma Black Diamond Sells For $4.3 Million At Auction by Tanya Klich

    • https://www.forbes.com/sites/tanyaklich/2022/02/09/enigma-black-diamond-sells-for-43-million-at-sothebys-auction/?sh=4d190d59361c

    How an Ad Campaign Invented the Diamond Engagement Ring by Uri Friedman

    • https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/02/how-an-ad-campaign-invented-the-diamond-engagement-ring/385376/

    We have electric cars, but what’s it going to take for airplanes to become totally electric? 

    What It’ll Take to Get Electric Planes Off the Ground by Gregory Barber

    • https://www.wired.com/story/what-itll-take-to-get-electric-planes-off-the-ground/

    The challenges and opportunities of battery-powered flight by Venkatasubramanian Viswanathan, Alan H. Epstein, Yet-Ming Chiang, Esther Takeuchi, Marty Bradley, John Langford & Michael Winter 

    • https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-04139-1

    Electric Planes Are Coming Sooner Than You Think by Elissa Garay

    • https://www.afar.com/magazine/electric-planes-are-coming-sooner-than-you-think

    World's first electric plane start up parts ways with CEO in mysterious rift by Jennifer Korn

    • https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/17/tech/eviation-ceo-exit/index.html

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    15 min
  • Arctic Alien-ish Life, A Nuclear Donut, Babies Curing HIV

    Today, you’ll learn about how alien-like life figured out a bizarre way to survive at the bottom of the Arctic Ocean, a donut-shaped machine that just set a bunch of records in the world of nuclear fusion and how babies are becoming superheroes in the fight against cancer and HIV.

    Learn about how alien-like life figured out how to survive at the bottom of the Arctic ocean. 

    'Alien-like' life thrives on dead matter in Arctic deep by Helen Briggs

    • https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-60308650

    Fossil-eating sponges discovered in the Arctic by James Ashworth

    • https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/2022/february/fossil-eating-sponges-discovered-Arctic.html

    Giant sponge gardens discovered on seamounts in the Arctic deep sea by Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology

    • https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/02/220208113915.htm

    890-Million-Year-Old Fossills Are Sponges, Oldest Animals: Study by Abby Olena

    • https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/890-million-year-old-fossils-are-sponges-oldest-animals-study-69031

    Deep-sea sponges: Biotechnology and the blue economy by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

    • https://www.fao.org/3/cb2738en/cb2738en.pdf

    This donut isn’t what you think - it could set records in the world of nuclear fusion. 

    A giant donut-shaped machine just proved a near-limitless clean power source is possible by Danya Gainor and Angela Dewan

    • https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/09/uk/nuclear-fusion-climate-energy-scn-intl/index.htm

    Major breakthrough on nuclear fusion energy by Jonathan Amos

    • https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-60312633

    Nuclear-fusion reactor smashes energy record by Elizabeth Gibney

    • https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-00391-1

    The new heroes in the fight against HIV are not who you expect: they’re babies! 

    A Woman Is Cured of H.I.V. Using a Novel Treatment by Apoorva Mandavilli

    • https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/15/health/hiv-cure-cord-blood.html

    Testing cord blood transplants as a cure for leukemia — and HIV by Sabin Russell

    • https://www.fredhutch.org/en/news/center-news/2022/03/hiv-cure-cord-blood.html

    Progress in HIV/AIDS cure: N.Y. woman is free of HIV for 4 years by Leila Fadel interviews Dr. Carlos del Rio

    • https://www.npr.org/2022/02/21/1082079030/progress-in-hiv-aids-cure-n-y-woman-is-free-of-hiv-for-4-years

    A third person has been cured of HIV, scientists report by Nicoletta Lanese 

    • https://www.livescience.com/third-person-cured-hiv-stem-cell-transplant-from-cord-blood

    About HIV/Aids and Treatment by the CDC

    • https://www.cdc.gov/hiv/basics/whatishiv.html
    • https://www.cdc.gov/hiv/basics/livingwithhiv/treatment.html

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    16 min
  • Covid’s Bright Side, Frogs Out on a Limb, Fertilizing Fuel

    Today, you’ll learn about how COVID-19 may have revamped cities for the better, astounding new technology that could one day regrow human limbs and how an agricultural fertilizer is going from feeding the world to potentially powering the world.

    The pandemic changed more than just our home lives, it also changed the way we live in our cities. 

    The Pandemic Might Have Redesigned Cities Forever by Adam Rogers

    • https://www.wired.com/story/the-pandemic-might-have-redesigned-cities-forever/

    Pandemic-led decline of US cities may be reversing by Howard Schneider

    • https://www.reuters.com/world/the-great-reboot/pandemic-led-decline-us-cities-may-be-reversing-2021-05-04/

    Car-Free Transportation Gets Boost from U.S. Grant Program by Laura Bliss

    • https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-11-29/bike-pedestrian-infrastructure-favored-in-raise-grants

    Pandemic-era Street Spaces: Parklets, Patios, and the Future of the Public Realm by John Bela

    • https://dirt.asla.org/2021/09/09/pandemic-era-street-spaces-parklets-patios-and-the-future-of-the-public-realm/

    The Status of Outdoor Dining Across the Country by Amy McCarthy

    • https://www.eater.com/22833407/pandemic-outdoor-dining-america-impact-neighborhoods

    Frogs found new legs with and exciting new breakthrough in limb regeneration.

    A new device helps frogs regrow working legs after an amputation by Carolyn Wilke

    • https://www.sciencenews.org/article/frog-leg-regeneration-new-device-regrow-amputation

    Frogs regrow amputated legs in breakthrough experiment by Patrick Pester

    • https://www.livescience.com/frogs-regrow-amputated-legs-in-lab

    Could Humans Ever Regenerate a Limb? by Jesse Emspak

    • https://www.livescience.com/59194-could-humans-ever-regenerate-limbs.html

    How do we use frogs in research? by The Francis Crick Institute

    • https://www.crick.ac.uk/news/2019-12-16_how-do-we-use-frogs-in-research

    Scientists regrow frog’s lost leg by Tufts University

    • https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/940952

    Ammonia gets a bad rap, but a new “green” ammonia may be our solution to net zero carbon emissions.

    Can ‘Green’ Ammonia Be a Climate Fix? by Nicola Jones

    • https://www.wired.com/story/can-green-ammonia-be-a-climate-fix/

    Green ammonia could produce climate-friendly ways to store energy and fertilize farms by Stephen Ornes

    • https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2119584118

    Ammonia: zero-carbon fertiliser, fuel and energy store by The Royal Society

    • https://royalsociety.org/topics-policy/projects/low-carbon-energy-programme/green-ammonia

    Satellite Data Detects Hundreds of New Sources of Ammonia Pollution by Jason Daley

    • https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/satellite-data-detects-hundreds-new-sources-ammonia-pollution-180970967/

    Watch this TED talk to get up to speed on green ammonia and shipping by Maria Gallucci 

    • https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/sea-transport/watch-this-ted-talk-to-get-up-to-speed-on-green-ammonia-and-shipping

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    16 min
  • Volcanic Violence, a Salt & Battery, Crustacean Conspiracy

    Today, you’ll learn about a massively mysterious volcanic explosion that literally sent shockwaves around the world, how salty batteries are set to sweeten the competition in the energy storage industry and how scientists have no idea why animals keep evolving into crabs.

    A volcanic eruption off the coast of Tonga affected the entire world. 

    Scientists are Racing to Understand the Fury of Tonga’s Volcano by Robin Andrews

    • https://www.wired.com/story/tonga-volcano-eruption-science/

    Tonga Shrouded by Ash and Mystery After Powerful Volcano Erupts By Natasha Frost, Mitra Taj and Eric Nagourney

    • https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/16/world/asia/tonga-tsunami-peru.html

    Experts explain why Tonga eruption was so big by Nick Perry

    • https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/experts-explain-why-tonga-eruption-was-so-big

    Why the Tongan eruption will go in the history of volcanology by Alexandra Witze

    • https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-00394-y

    NASA scientists estimate Tonga blast at 10 megatons by Geoff Brumfiel

    • https://www.npr.org/2022/01/18/1073800454/nasa-scientists-estimate-tonga-blast-at-10-megatons

    Will sodium-based batteries be the future of electronics? 

    Facts about Sodium by Stephanie Pappas

    • https://www.livescience.com/28820-sodium.html

    Sodium - Chemical Element by The Editors of Encyclopedia Britannica

    • https://www.britannica.com/science/sodium#ref278871

    A Brief History of Salt by Time Staff

    • https://time.com/3957460/a-brief-history-of-salt/

    Sodium Batteries May Power Your New Electric Car by Gregory Barber

    • https://www.wired.com/story/sodium-batteries-power-new-electric-car/

    Sodium batteries are one step closer to saving you from a mobile phone fire by Robert F. Service

    • https://www.science.org/content/article/sodium-batteries-are-one-step-closer-saving-you-mobile-phone-fire

    Why do animals keep evolving into crabs? 

    Animals Keep Evolving Into Crabs, and Scientists Don’t Know Why by Ed Browne

    • https://www.newsweek.com/crabs-evolved-five-times-carcinization-scientists-dont-know-why-1638921#:~:text=It%27s%20true%3A%20Crabs%20keep%20turning,use%20for%20over%20140%20years

    Why everything eventually becomes a crab by Sara Kiley Watson

    • https://www.popsci.com/story/animals/why-everything-becomes-crab-meme-carcinization/

    Animals Keep Evolving Into Crabs, Which Is Somewhat Disturbing by Caroline Delbert

    • https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a34389129/crab-evolution-carcinization/

    Creature Feature - Haunted Beaches: The Fleet-Footed Ghost Crabs by Andrew Hosie

    • https://museum.wa.gov.au/creature-feature-haunted-beaches-fleet-footed-ghost-crabs

    Coconut Crab Claw Strength Rivals Lion’s Bite, Study Shows by Landess Kearns

    • https://www.huffpost.com/entry/coconut-crab-claw-strength_n_583e0a54e4b0ae0e7cdaa99f

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    16 min
  • 16 Psyche, Xenotransplantation, Ocean Waves Become a Rave

    Today, you’ll learn about a metallic object in space that might be worth seven hundred quintillion dollars, how genetically engineered pig hearts could save tons of human lives and how bioluminescent waves are putting on trippy light shows in the world’s oceans.

    16 Psyche may be worth $700 quintillion dollars, but it’ll take a probe visiting the planetesimal to find out. 

    16 Psyche: An Asteroid once thought to be worth $700 quintillion by Chris Young

    • https://interestingengineering.com/asteroid-psyche-700-quintillion

    Asteroid 16 Psyche Thought to Be Worth $10,000 Quadrillion Could Be a “Rubble Pile” by Aristos Georgiou

    • https://www.newsweek.com/asteroid-16-psyche-worth-10000-quadrillion-rubble-pile-1599787

    16 Psyche: The asteroid that could make every person on Earth a billionaire by Paul Ratner

    • https://bigthink.com/hard-science/space-miners-race-to-an-asteroid-worth-quintillions/#rebelltitem2

    NASA TO STUDY A $700 QUINTILLION ‘GOLDMINE’ ASTEROID by Matthew Hart

    • https://nerdist.com/article/nasa-studying-goldmine-asteroid-700-quintillion-dollars/

    Hubble Telescope reveals asteroid Psyche’s rusty surface by Amy Oliver

    • https://earthsky.org/space/hubble-asteroid-psyche-iron-nickel-rust-protoplanet/

    Science of Psyche: Unique Asteroid Holds Clues to Early Solar System by Naomi Hartono

    • https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/science-of-psyche-unique-asteroid-holds-clues-to-early-solar-system

    Asteroid Psyche by NASA

    • https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/asteroids-comets-and-meteors/asteroids/16-psyche/in-depth/

    One man was the lucky recipient of a heart transplant from an unlikely source - can organs from animals help humans? 

    Will animal-to-human organ transplants overcome their complicated history? by Laura Beil

    • https://www.sciencenews.org/article/animal-human-organ-transplants-pig-kidney-heart-history

    Man gets genetically modified pig heart in world-first transplant by BBC News with analysis by Michelle Roberts

    • https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-59944889

    First-ever pig-to-human heart transplant offers hope for thousands in need of organs by Karen Weintraub

    • https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2022/01/10/human-pig-heart-transplant/9152951002/

    The ethics of a second chance: Pig heart transplant recipient stabbed a man seven times years ago by Lizzie Johnson and William Wan

    • https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/01/13/pig-heart-transplant-stabbing-david-bennett/

    Bioluminescent waves are lighting up the oceans for swimmers and sealife alike. 

    Dolphins, Surfers and Waves Sparkle in Bright Blue Bioluminescent Glow Off California Coast by Katherine J. Wu

    • https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/dolphins-waves-sparkle-bioluminescent-glow-california-coast-180974766/

    The science behind bioluminescent waves by Harry Baker

    • https://marinemadness.blog/2020/05/12/the-science-behind-bioluminescent-waves/

    Bioluminescent Waves Light Up the Shoreline by Amanda Maxwell

    • https://now.northropgrumman.com/bioluminescent-waves-light-up-the-shoreline/

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    20 min
  • Introducing: Curiosity Daily

    The award-winning Curiosity Daily podcast from CuriosityDaily.com will help you get smarter about the world around you — every day. In less than 10 minutes, you’ll get a unique mix of research-based life hacks, the latest science and technology news, and more. Nate Bonham and Calli Gade will help you learn about your mind and body, outer space and the depths of the sea, and how history shaped the world into what it is today.

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    2 min
  • From the Archives: Where Does Mold Come From?

    This episode originally aired on 4/3/2020. New episodes coming soon. 

    Learn about the shocking prevalence of torture scenes in movies; why durian, the world’s smelliest fruit, smells so bad; and where mold comes from.

    Torture is prevalent and effective in movies (but not in real life) by Kelsey Donk

    • Torture Prevalent, Effective in Popular Movies, Study Finds – University of Alabama News | The University of Alabama. (2020). Ua.Edu. https://www.ua.edu/news/2020/01/torture-prevalent-effective-in-popular-movies-study-finds/
    • Delehanty, C., & Kearns, E. (2019). Wait, There’s Torture in Zootopia?: Examining the Prevalence of Torture in Popular Movies. SSRN Electronic Journal. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3342908

    Scientists discovered why durian is the world's smelliest fruit by Kelsey Donk

    • A Love Letter to a Smelly Fruit. (2013, December 3). The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/08/travel/a-love-letter-to-a-smelly-fruit.html
    • Discovering what makes durian stink. (2020). EurekAlert! https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-02/lfla-dwm022820.php
    • Identification of an Important Odorant Precursor in Durian: First Evidence of Ethionine in Plants. (2019). Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.jafc.9b07065
    • Maninang, J. S., Lizada, M. C. C., & Gemma, H. (2009). Inhibition of aldehyde dehydrogenase enzyme by Durian (Durio zibethinus Murray) fruit extract. Food Chemistry, 117(2), 352–355. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodchem.2009.03.106
    • Ethanethiol - American Chemical Society. (2020). American Chemical Society. https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/molecule-of-the-week/archive/e/ethanethiol.html

    Where does mold come from? by Ashley Hamer (Listener question from Tim)

    • USDA FSIS. (2013). Molds on Food: Are They Dangerous? https://www.fsis.usda.gov/wps/wcm/connect/a87cdc2c-6ddd-49f0-bd1f-393086742e68/Molds_on_Food.pdf?MOD=AJPERES
    • Stradley, L. (2016, April 5). Food Molds – Are Molds Dangerous. What’s Cooking America. https://whatscookingamerica.net/Q-A/Mold.htm
    • Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition. (2019). BAM Chapter 18. U.S. Food and Drug Administration. https://www.fda.gov/food/laboratory-methods-food/bam-yeasts-molds-and-mycotoxins


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    12 min
  • From the Archives: Where Dogs Get Their Personalities

    This episode originally aired on 10/4/2019. New episodes coming soon. 

    Learn about how dogs’ personalities are rooted in their DNA; one skill that doesn’t get worse as you get older; and how your sense of smell works.

    In this podcast, Cody Gough and Ashley Hamer discuss the following stories from Curiosity.com to help you get smarter and learn something new in just a few minutes:

    • Dogs' Personalities Are Rooted in Their DNA — https://curiosity.im/2OfDwvJ
    • Scientists Have Identified One Skill that Doesn't Deteriorate with Age — https://curiosity.im/2LwW5tm

    Additional resources discussed:

    • How does the sense of smell work? | HowStuffWorks — https://health.howstuffworks.com/mental-health/human-nature/perception/question139.htm
    • Human Nose Can Detect a Trillion Smells | Science — https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2014/03/human-nose-can-detect-trillion-smells


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