SparkDialog Podcasts
Science, technology, society, our lives, philosophy and religion. This is SparkDialog Podcasts, where it all comes together. Hosted by Dr. Elizabeth Fernandez.Podcasts
Memories, The Here and Now, and Our Future- Time, Religion, and Physics
Published: Oct. 6, 2021, 6:42 p.m.Duration: 48 minutes 47 seconds
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Ep 99: New York Underwater: Art and Climate Change - with guest Carolyn Hall
Published: Sept. 7, 2021, 11:50 p.m.Duration: 43 minutes 11 seconds
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Ep 98: The Problems and Promise of AI in Healthcare - with guest Dr. Muhammad Ahmad
Published: Aug. 3, 2021, 9:31 p.m.Duration: 40 minutes 6 seconds
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Ep 97: Floods in India - A View of Climate Change from Under the River - with guest Dr. Luisa Cortesi
Published: July 13, 2021, 2:10 p.m.Duration: 33 minutes 37 seconds
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Ep 96: AI, Ethics, and the Vatican - with guest Dr. Brian Patrick Green
Published: June 1, 2021, 9:36 p.m.Duration: 42 minutes 3 seconds
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Ep 95: Grief in the Time of COVID: with guest Dr. Kristel Clayville
Published: May 4, 2021, 6:54 p.m.Duration: 29 minutes 57 seconds
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Ep 94: Quantum Entanglement, Consciousness, and the Nature of Reality: with guest Dr. Eric Cavalcanti
Published: April 6, 2021, 11:37 p.m.Duration: 42 minutes 47 seconds
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Ep 93: Gratefulness, Hope, and COVID with guest John Van Sloten
Published: March 3, 2021, 12:48 a.m.Duration: 29 minutes 41 seconds
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Ep 92: Merging Man and Machine: Transhumanism and Religion - with guest Seth Villegas
Published: Feb. 2, 2021, 5:37 p.m.Duration: 43 minutes 15 seconds
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Ep 91: Seeing Patterns, Seeing God: The Neuroscience of Belief - with guest Dr. Adam Weinberger
Published: Oct. 20, 2020, 6:16 p.m.Duration: 28 minutes 2 seconds
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Ep 90: How Can We Find Life Within the Solar System?: with Dr. Niels Ligterink
Published: Oct. 6, 2020, 6:21 p.m.Duration: 43 minutes 40 seconds
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Ep 89: Can Online Privacy Exist Today? - with guest Rob Shavell
Published: Sept. 22, 2020, 4:41 p.m.Duration: 36 minutes 20 seconds
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Ep 88: Why We Need Nature with guest Dr. Peter Kahn
Published: Sept. 8, 2020, 2:54 p.m.Duration: 29 minutes 13 seconds
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Ep 87: Environmental Racism and Climate Change
Published: Aug. 25, 2020, 12:22 p.m.Duration: 34 minutes 25 seconds
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Ep 86: The Science of Subjectivity: The World Your Brain Creates - with guest Dr. Jorge Morales
Published: Aug. 11, 2020, 1:13 p.m.Duration: 48 minutes 37 seconds
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Ep 85: How Paleolithic is the Paleo Diet? What did our Ancestors Eat Anyways?
Published: June 30, 2020, 5:03 p.m.Duration: 36 minutes 22 seconds
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Ep 84: The Coronavirus, Social Media, Online Dating and Black Lives Matter
Published: June 16, 2020, 8:54 p.m.Duration: 33 minutes 14 seconds
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Ep 83: The West: On the Cusp of a MegaDrought
Published: June 2, 2020, 7:19 p.m.Duration: 27 minutes 12 seconds
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Ep 82 : The Origins of Language May Go Much Farther Back Than We Thought
Published: May 19, 2020, 12:07 p.m.Duration: 38 minutes 59 seconds
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Ep 81: Staying Connected During COVID-19 (with Technology!)
Published: May 5, 2020, 6:14 p.m.Duration: 30 minutes
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Ep 80: Smart Replies Aren't So Smart
Published: April 21, 2020, 6:08 p.m.Duration: 21 minutes 22 seconds
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Ep 79: Evolution in the South
Published: April 7, 2020, 4:04 p.m.Duration: 36 minutes 33 seconds
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Ep 78: This Is Not A Normal Podcast Episode
Published: March 24, 2020, 5:55 p.m.Duration: 1 minute 48 seconds
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Ep 77: Yes, It's Possible To Feed The World
Published: March 10, 2020, 6:14 p.m.Duration: 29 minutes 40 seconds
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Ep 76: How We Found Out Meteors Are Actually Little Rocks From Space Burning Up In The Atmosphere
Published: Feb. 25, 2020, 2:08 p.m.Duration: 18 minutes 7 seconds
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Ep 75: From Self-Driving Cars to Autonomous Weapons Systems - Can We Trust AI?
Published: Feb. 11, 2020, 2:08 p.m.Duration: 40 minutes 57 seconds
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Ep 74: Is the Biodiversity of Earth Doomed?
Published: Dec. 3, 2019, 5:32 p.m.Duration: 42 minutes 10 seconds
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Ep 73: Mind Uploading - The Key To Eternal Life?
Published: Nov. 19, 2019, 6:19 p.m.Duration: 34 minutes 31 seconds
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Ep 72: Reversing Climate Change: Turning CO2 Into Rock
Published: Nov. 5, 2019, 6:30 p.m.Duration: 28 minutes 22 seconds
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Ep 71: Epileptics with Mystical Experiences
Published: Oct. 22, 2019, 5:55 p.m.Duration: 37 minutes 24 seconds
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Ep 70: Hack My Heart
Published: Oct. 8, 2019, 5:25 p.m.Duration: 28 minutes 16 seconds
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Ep 69: Cameras that can See Around Corners
Published: Sept. 24, 2019, 12:24 p.m.Duration: 26 minutes 3 seconds
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Ep 68: They're Not Speaking English - Decoding a Message from ET
Published: Sept. 10, 2019, 1:08 p.m.Duration: 38 minutes 20 seconds
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Ep 67: Space Industry - A Future in the Stars
Published: July 23, 2019, 4:25 p.m.Duration: 28 minutes 14 seconds
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Ep 66: What the Future May Hold: The Future of Technology
Published: July 9, 2019, 6:47 p.m.Duration: 42 minutes 7 seconds
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Ep 65: The Plausibility of Implausible Science Fiction
Published: June 25, 2019, 5:58 p.m.Duration: 27 minutes 2 seconds
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Ep 64:Thriving with Autism through Art
Published: June 11, 2019, 1:29 p.m.Duration: 22 minutes 4 seconds
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Ep 63: Deep Brain Stimulation
Published: May 28, 2019, 3:29 p.m.Duration: 29 minutes 15 seconds
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Ep 62: Improving Women's Healthcare: The Calla Campaign
Published: May 14, 2019, 4:04 p.m.Duration: 29 minutes 59 seconds
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Ep 61: Technology and the Notre Dame Fire: with guest Dr. Stephen Murray
Published: April 30, 2019, 5:56 p.m.Duration: 35 minutes 14 seconds
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Ep 60: Science, Religion, and Evolution
Published: April 16, 2019, 3:24 p.m.Duration: 41 minutes 34 seconds
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Ep 59: Climate Change on Alien Worlds
Published: April 2, 2019, 1:02 p.m.Duration: 26 minutes 38 seconds
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Ep 58: Who Are You Anyways? Does Dementia and Alzheimer's Change Who You Are?
Published: March 19, 2019, 1 p.m.Duration: 27 minutes 26 seconds
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The Far Future of the Universe
Published: March 5, 2019, 1:40 p.m.Duration: 43 minutes 27 seconds
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Ep 56: It's About Time - A Podcast in the Fourth Dimension
Published: Dec. 11, 2018, 2:19 p.m.Duration: 31 minutes 34 seconds
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Ep 55: 3D Printed Buildings: From Earth to Mars
Published: Nov. 27, 2018, 2:24 p.m.Duration: 28 minutes 1 second
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Ep 54: Transforming Agriculture in Africa
Published: Nov. 13, 2018, 1:52 p.m.Duration: 24 minutes 21 seconds
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Ep 53: Down the Rabbit Hole - Scientific Comics and Storytelling
Published: Oct. 30, 2018, 2:14 p.m.Duration: 27 minutes 13 seconds
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Ep 52: To GM or not to GM: GMOs in a Changing World
Published: Oct. 16, 2018, 1:37 p.m.Duration: 37 minutes 6 seconds
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Ep 51: From Rosie to RoboCop: Gender, Religion, and Robots
Published: Oct. 2, 2018, 12:36 p.m.Duration: 33 minutes 49 seconds
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Ep 50_ Keep on Moving, Stop Climate Change
Published: Sept. 4, 2018, 1:49 p.m.Duration: 34 minutes 40 seconds
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Ep 49: Ice Cream and Nazis: The Origin of Moral Choices
Published: Aug. 21, 2018, 1:12 p.m.Duration: 28 minutes 6 seconds
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Ep 48: Let There be Light: First Stars and Cosmic Dawn
Published: Aug. 7, 2018, 1:23 p.m.Duration: 40 minutes 9 seconds
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Ep 47: Crowdsensing the Noise
Published: July 24, 2018, 12:29 p.m.Duration: 18 minutes 5 seconds
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Ep 46: The Geology of Us: The Anthropocene
Published: July 10, 2018, 12:22 p.m.Duration: 32 minutes 26 seconds
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Ep 45: Can Science Help Us Live Forever?
Published: June 26, 2018, 12:30 p.m.Duration: 27 minutes 57 seconds
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Ep 44: Subglacial Lakes and Life on Frozen Moons
Published: May 15, 2018, 5:54 p.m.Duration: 20 minutes
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Ep 43: Is there Bias in Machine Learning Algorithms?
Published: May 1, 2018, 4:28 p.m.Duration: 34 minutes 34 seconds
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Space Junk, Trash on the Moon, and the Earth's Copper Ring
Published: April 17, 2018, 5 p.m.Duration: 38 minutes 52 seconds
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Ep 41: The Pope's Astronomer
Published: April 3, 2018, 5:23 p.m.Duration: 37 minutes 6 seconds
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Ep 40_ There's More to Color than Meets the Eye
Published: March 20, 2018, 3 p.m.Duration: 30 minutes 7 seconds
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Ep 39: Can AI be Creative
Published: March 6, 2018, 3 p.m.Duration: 29 minutes 36 seconds
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Ep. 38: What Happens Next Will Blow Your Mind! - Using Natural Language Processing to Find Fake News, Satire, and Clickbait
Published: Feb. 20, 2018, 3 p.m.Duration: 42 minutes 42 seconds
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Ep. 37: The Philosophy of the Self - From Spirituality to Neuroscience
Published: Feb. 6, 2018, 6:36 p.m.Duration: 38 minutes 15 seconds
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Made In Space - with guest Brad Kohlenberg (rerun)
Published: Jan. 16, 2018, 5:45 p.m.Duration: 19 minutes 39 seconds
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The Star of Bethlehem A Real Event with guest Dr. Peter Barthel (rerun)
Published: Dec. 19, 2017, 5:45 p.m.Duration: 22 minutes 42 seconds
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Getting a Second Chance: Space Ethics, Mining, and Colonization
Published: Nov. 21, 2017, 10:10 p.m.Duration: 36 minutes 2 seconds
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Lending a Hand - a Prosthetic Hand
Published: Nov. 7, 2017, 5:20 p.m.Duration: 30 minutes 32 seconds
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Zombees! A Halloween Episode
Published: Oct. 24, 2017, 4:56 p.m.Duration: 32 minutes 38 seconds
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From Steak to Insects - The Future of Food
Published: Oct. 10, 2017, 3:52 p.m.Duration: 36 minutes 31 seconds
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Humanitarian and Privacy Concerns with AI
Published: Sept. 26, 2017, 4:54 p.m.Duration: 29 minutes 15 seconds
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Women in Science - Ruby Payne-Scott - with guest Dr. Miller Goss
Published: Sept. 12, 2017, 3 p.m.Duration: 35 minutes 50 seconds
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The Solar Eclipse - Awe, Wonder, and Science
Published: Aug. 29, 2017, 5:28 p.m.Duration: 31 minutes 33 seconds
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Teaching Science with Animals and Travel
Published: Aug. 15, 2017, 9 a.m.Duration: 18 minutes 13 seconds
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Autism Therapy and Zen
Published: Aug. 1, 2017, 4:26 p.m.Duration: 30 minutes 4 seconds
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The Ethics of Augmented Reality and Our Future
Published: July 4, 2017, 4 p.m.Duration: 37 minutes 47 seconds
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Sustainability - The Bigger Picture
Published: June 20, 2017, 5:50 p.m.Duration: 27 minutes 49 seconds
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Robots That Eat Trash and the Entrepreneurs Who Build Them
Published: June 6, 2017, 8:47 p.m.Duration: 12 minutes 57 seconds
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CRISPR With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility
Published: May 23, 2017, 10 a.m.Duration: 28 minutes 34 seconds
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The Energy Future of America from Renewable Energy to Carbon-Negative Technology with guest Dr. David Babson
Published: April 25, 2017, 7 a.m.Duration: 25 minutes 3 seconds
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Educational Hotspots for Children of the Developing World
Published: April 11, 2017, 2 p.m.Duration: 28 minutes 27 seconds
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The Dalai Lama, Tibetan Monks, and Science
Published: March 28, 2017, 4:05 p.m.Duration: 27 minutes 4 seconds
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Volcanoes - Making Your Planet Habitable for 4.6 Billion Years
Published: March 14, 2017, 5:31 p.m.Duration: 22 minutes 56 seconds
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World Upon World, Universe Upon Universe
Published: Feb. 28, 2017, 5:31 p.m.Duration: 29 minutes 41 seconds
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The Robotic Moral Code Programming Ethics into Machines with guest Dr. Don Howard
Published: Feb. 14, 2017, 6:17 p.m.Duration: 28 minutes 24 seconds
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Create Your Own Brain
Published: Jan. 31, 2017, 4:56 p.m.Duration: 20 minutes 48 seconds
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Climate Change, Religion, and Ethics - A Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Perspective
Published: Jan. 17, 2017, 5:07 p.m.Duration: 32 minutes 36 seconds
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The Star of Bethlehem - A Real Event?
Published: Dec. 13, 2016, 6:38 p.m.Duration: 22 minutes 19 seconds
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Space: East and West - Space, Technology, and Culture with Dr. Susmita Mohanty
Published: Nov. 29, 2016, 5:39 p.m.Duration: 14 minutes 14 seconds
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The International Space Station and I: The World from Above
Published: Oct. 18, 2016, 5:12 p.m.Duration: 17 minutes 19 seconds
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Galactic Cannibalism
Published: Sept. 7, 2016, 5:18 p.m.Duration: 13 minutes 40 seconds
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The Future Universe - Teeming with Life?
Published: Aug. 15, 2016, 7:48 p.m.Duration: 13 minutes 16 seconds
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Hello Jupiter! It's Juno.
Published: July 26, 2016, 5:03 p.m.Duration: 26 minutes 37 seconds
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The Dolphin Whisperer
Published: June 20, 2016, 4:07 p.m.Duration: 15 minutes 38 seconds
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Traveling to the Stars on the Wind of a Laser
Published: May 20, 2016, 8:43 p.m.Duration: 24 minutes 29 seconds
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An Explosion from Across the Universe
Published: April 26, 2016, 5:49 p.m.Duration: 15 minutes 36 seconds
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Astronomy... with a Canon!
Published: March 13, 2016, 1:42 a.m.Duration: 10 minutes 56 seconds
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Climate Science from the Bottom of the World
Published: March 11, 2016, 11:07 p.m.Duration: 16 minutes 17 seconds
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