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Lights and gauges with display screens cover the walls. Illustration of energetic reaction drawn on top. Caption: it releases a lot of energy in the form of heat.
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Episode 3
2 minutes
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Person speaking. Caption: So a nanometer would be ten to the minus nine meters.
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Episode 3
1 minutes 26 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Person speaking. Caption: Nanoparticles have been used in sunscreens
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Episode 7
1 minutes
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Person speaking. Caption: and work on it to manage those risks.
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Episode 4
1 minutes 16 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Person speaking. Caption: We can apply an electric field or magnetic fields to them.
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Episode 5
1 minutes 39 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Person speaking. Caption: about nanobots replicating and taking over the world.
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Episode 8
1 minutes 16 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
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Person speaking. Caption: between one and one hundred nanometers.
Ask a Scientist
Episode 1
1 minutes 10 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Person speaking and standing next to a poster board with "Control of matter at the nanoscale" surrounded by logos from different organizations. Caption: of matter at the atomic and molecular level.
Ask a Scientist
Episode 2
1 minutes 27 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Person speaking. Caption: used for both doing diagnostics as well as theranostics.
Ask a Scientist
Episode 6
54 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
ASL
A board with figures and a heavy object in the center bends downward in the center. Caption: You see that as the load increases, the bridge bends,
Bridge Design (and Destruction)
Episode 1
5 minutes 8 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
ASL
A board with interlocking triangular cutout supports running parallel to the board has figures on it and a heavy object in the center. The outermost edges of the triangular supports have buckled. Caption: The outer segments of the truss are the first to break.
Bridge Design (and Destruction)
Episode 2
4 minutes 29 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
ASL
Seen from above, a large cylindrical tube with a hatch in a pit surrounded by wooden supports and metal bars. Caption: model representations of sewer and river systems.
Career Connections
Episode 16
5 minutes 38 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
ASL
Computer screen displaying a grid-like diagram mapping connections between multiple points. Caption: and then we can apply loading to this structure,
Career Connections
Episode 79
5 minutes 46 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Two glow sticks immersed in separate containers of liquid. One stick is glowing much brighter than the other. Caption: The one in hot water gets brighter
5 minutes 11 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Person holding a paper cup with rubber bands and binder clips wrapped around a tubular object. Caption: (Nate) There's lots of ways of getting the straw into the potato.
Design Squad Nation
Episode 10
3 minutes 46 seconds
Grade Level: 3 - 8
Person in lab coat, gloves, and mask moving a large metal machine that is place above other complex metal machinery. Caption: Also key is state-of-the-art optical and laser technology:
20 minutes 11 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Closeup of red-hot charcoal on a grill. Caption: creating a fuel source that works but has problems.
Science Out Loud
Episode 11
3 minutes 38 seconds
Grade Level: 8 - 12
Drawing of the sun and a person with a rock in between them obscuring the rays of light from the sun. Caption: Theoretically, observers would never know it's there.
Fast Draw
Episode 3
2 minutes 22 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 12
Illustration of objects moving from a chamber with disk shaped spiny structures to an empty chamber. Caption: Here, we force bacteria to move electrons
Green Revolution
Episode 9
5 minutes 3 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Hillside covered in solar panels. Caption: collecting the sun's energy
Green Revolution
Episode 7
5 minutes 59 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Illustration of a windmill 100 meters tall receiving air current next to a much taller structure receiving a much larger air current. Caption: The beauty of wind turbines is that they're 100% clean.
Green Revolution
Episode 6
5 minutes 1 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Fine white tubes grow in the same direction. Caption: and carbon nanotubes grow like blades of grass.
Science Out Loud
Episode 4
3 minutes 21 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Metal shipping containers on the deck of a cargo ship. Caption: The ship's metal is more dense than water,
Science Out Loud
Episode 16
3 minutes 4 seconds
Grade Level: 8 - 12
Young girl in business attire stands on a stage looking out and speaking to the audience.
17 minutes 8 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Person placing a magnet to one side of the path directly in front of a ramp. A dotted line projects the path of an object that will move from the ramp and curve toward the magnet. Caption: Let's place the magnet somewhere to alter the marble's course.
Design Squad Nation
Episode 6
3 minutes 13 seconds
Grade Level: 3 - 8
ASL
Man sits and talks to us in a room with a bookcase with books and different knick-knacks on the shelf such as a Gundam toy, a mini globe, and a space rocket.
It's Okay to Be Smart
Season 8 / Ep 20
11 minutes 37 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
ASL
Diagram. A little human figure with two dotted lines and two crisscrossed lines that represent light. In the middle of the lines is an almond shape that is labeled, “Lens.” The dotted lines lead up to a dark vertical line that is labeled, “Sensor/Retina.” Next to the dark line is an upside down human next to a right side up human that is labeled, “What you see.” Text, “Bending Light.”
It's Okay to Be Smart
Season 6 / Ep 8
8 minutes 9 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
ASL
Sixteen eyeballs, each with different eye color. Caption: Martin-Schultz scale.
It's Okay to Be Smart
Season 7 / Ep 9
5 minutes 37 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
ASL
Many hot air balloons taking off into the sky.
It's Okay to Be Smart
Season 3 / Ep 10
5 minutes 55 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 10
ASL
A graph plots pressure in Pascal’s versus temperature in degrees Celsius. The horizontal axis is marked at negative 5, 0, and 100. The vertical axis ranges from 1 kilo Pascal to 100 Mega Pascal’s in increments of exponents of 10. At 1 atmospheric pressure water is in solid ice at negative 5 degrees to 0 degrees, in liquid state from 0 degrees to 100 degrees Celsius, and in vapor form above 100 degrees Celsius.
It's Okay to Be Smart
Season 7 / Ep 29
7 minutes 22 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
ASL
Digital illustration of an underground tunnel that goes from San Francisco to New York City.
It's Okay to Be Smart
Season 9 / Ep 4
11 minutes 58 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
ASL
A photo depicts many branches of a large tree.
It's Okay to Be Smart
Season 7 / Ep 24
8 minutes 51 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
ASL
An astronaut Don Pettit talks to host Joe Hanson. A rocket is seen in the background.
It's Okay to Be Smart
Season 7 / Ep 30
11 minutes 30 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Cartoon children on a playground. Caption: But kids like us play with simple machines every day.
Everyday Science for Preschoolers
Episode 6
1 minutes 59 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 5
Person standing on a round platform holding a wheel. Caption: so the question is, "Why am I spinning?"
MIT Physics Demos
Episode 2
2 minutes 15 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
People in a lab setting, filming an explosion that is occurring in a container. Caption: It dissipated the energy better and didn't explode.
MIT Physics Demos
Episode 1
2 minutes 24 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Split screen video. On the left, a man stands in a yard with a portable controller, operating a drone. On the right, a blurry view of mountains, pines, and rock captured by drone.
Overview
Season 1 / Ep 8
7 minutes 49 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Still image from: Overview: What Makes These Dunes Sing?
Overview
Season 1 / Ep 20
11 minutes 15 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
White ball with craft eyes sits on top of a red, plastic pedestal. 1 side of the ball has its outer layer torn away and exposing the ball's inner core. It appears to have been damaged by some type of impact.
Physics 101
Episode 1
23 minutes 53 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Dianna wears a navy shirt with red, yellow, and pink stripes on the wrists and shoulders. She sits behind a large piece of paper and holds a black marker. A colorful background with science items on a shelf is behind her, and equations appear on screen.
Physics 101
Episode 3
22 minutes 53 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Overhead view of a person's hands demonstrating how to solve a physics problem related to rotation on a large blue sheet of paper.
Physics 101
Episode 15
25 minutes 30 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
A C, G, I graphic of a spaceship made in the shape of a planetary ring rotates around a brown planet. The side closest to the planet looks like oceans with clouds and green continents, and the other side looks like a spaceship with glowing lights.
Physics 101
Episode 7
25 minutes 48 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Aerial closeup of 2 arms. The left has a pink sleeve, the right has a red sleeve and uses a black marker to write on a large sheet of paper. The paper shows an X, Y axis with Y axis labeled Force in Newtons and X axis labeled X in meters. Next to this, a drawing that looks like a spring coil.
Physics 101
Episode 10
25 minutes 51 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Host Dianna Cowern, a blonde woman in a red sweater and black scarf, smiles as she holds an old, large book up. Text on screen reads, "Newton's Principia, Original Manuscript," and an arrow points at the book.
Physics 101
Episode 12
22 minutes 55 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
In front of a blurred-out shot of this video's set, text reads, "Very Useful Trick. When any two objects collide elastically and energy is conserved, then the difference in their two velocities before the collision equals the negative of the difference between the two velocities after the collision."
Physics 101
Episode 13
24 minutes 38 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Video host looks at us while sitting at a table with physics equations written on a large sheet of paper. Behind her, the set is decorated with a modular shelf holding scientific models, floating equations, and hanging gears.
Physics 101
Episode 18
27 minutes 22 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Aerial closeup of 2 arms wearing denim sleeves with white stars. The right hand uses a large black marker to write on a large sheet of paper. The paper reads, "Energy and work" and has various physics equations.
Physics 101
Episode 9
28 minutes 3 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Man is suspended in the air by a clump of large balloons over a crowd of people. There are multiple desert towers and rock features in the distance behind them. Text on screen reads, "David Blaine," with an arrow pointing to the man.
Physics 101
Episode 5
24 minutes 34 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Aerial closeup of 2 arms in light blue sleeves over a paper. The right hand writes on a large sheet of paper with a thick black marker. The paper reads, "Equation of motion. Y equals Y sub 0 plus V sub 0, T plus 1/2, A, T sup to the power of 2."
Physics 101
Episode 2
22 minutes 45 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Man wearing a gray winter hat, a dark gray hoodie, black snow pants, and red gloves snowboards down a snowy ski slope on a foggy day. A yellow snow making machine and a little building with a red roof are nearby.
Physics 101
Episode 6
20 minutes 24 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Physics equation related to orbital motion is written on a large blue sheet of paper. The host's hand points at a line that represents the Earth's radius.
Physics 101
Episode 8
25 minutes 58 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Aerial closeup of 2 arms. The right hand uses a thick black marker to write various physics equations on a large sheet of paper.
Physics 101
Episode 4
23 minutes 6 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Video host speaks to us with her hands clasped together while sitting at a table with physics equations written on paper. Behind her, the set is decorated with a modular shelf holding scientific models, floating equations, and hanging gears.
Physics 101
Episode 11
24 minutes 2 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Overhead view of the host's hands as she demonstrates how to work out an equation dealing with the relationships among centrifugal and centripetal force and the Earth's rotation.
Physics 101
Episode 14
25 minutes 43 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Overhead view of the host demonstrating how to work out equations of motion involving acceleration, derivatives, sines, and cosines.
Physics 101
Episode 16
27 minutes 16 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Aerial closeup of 2 arms in black sleeves. The right hand writes on a large sheet of paper with a thick black marker. The paper reads, "tangent equals opposite over adjacent (tan). S, O, H, C, A, H, T, O, A. 1." There's a diagram of a 37.5 degree angle and an directional axis labeled N and E.
Physics 101
Episode 0
12 minutes 30 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Video host speaks to us, holding a marker while sitting at a table with physics equations written on paper. Behind, the set is decorated with a modular shelf holding scientific models, floating equations, and hanging gears.
Physics 101
Episode 19
28 minutes 16 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Video host speaks to us, glances to the side and gestures with her hands while sitting at a table with physics equations written on paper. Behind, the set is decorated with a modular shelf holding scientific models, floating equations, and hanging gears.
Physics 101
Episode 17
26 minutes 12 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Large number of electric sparks can be seen in a plasma ball.
Physics Girl
Season 4 / Ep 6
7 minutes 5 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Object being shot from a tube and smashing against a tennis ball that is sitting in a plastic cup.
Physics Girl
Season 4 / Ep 22
14 minutes 55 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Three large speakers are present beneath a stage. Caption: Subwoofers
Physics Girl
Season 4 / Ep 5
6 minutes 37 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
A person adds a substance to a bowl of tonic water. Caption: tonic water and corn starch.
Physics Girl
Season 4 / Ep 21
6 minutes 30 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
A rainbow is forms above a valley. A white band colored band is a part of the rainbow.
Physics Girl
Season 4 / Ep 19
8 minutes 20 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Two scientists working at the Large Hadron Collider.
Physics Girl
Season 4 / Ep 16
10 minutes 38 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
The extent of the Large Hardon Collider is demarcated in a satellite view. Caption: C E R N.
Physics Girl
Season 4 / Ep 17
14 minutes
Grade Level: 10 - 12
A circular ring of tears on a wine glass. Caption: 5 X speed. Credits, Claudia Falcon.
Physics Girl
Season 4 / Ep 14
9 minutes 41 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
A spring fixed at one end is stretched below resonance, at resonance, and above resonance. The largest stretch in the spring is seen at resonance.
Physics Girl
Season 4 / Ep 3
6 minutes 27 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
A screenshot of 2008 physics exam problem 4, labeled sticky disks.
Physics Girl
Season 4 / Ep 8
9 minutes 47 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
A magnet film is placed on the surface of an electronic device, which results in the appearance of a specific pattern on the magnet film.
Physics Girl
Season 4 / Ep 2
6 minutes 56 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
An illustration depicts some planets and their orbits, revolving around a sun. Caption: N A S A.
Physics Girl
Season 4 / Ep 18
9 minutes 29 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
A comparison of the view, of letters placed below, through a straw submerged in water and alcohol. The view through water submerged straw is more magnified when compared to the view through alcohol submerged straw.
Physics Girl
Season 4 / Ep 7
5 minutes
Grade Level: 10 - 12
A reflection of a girl is seen on a spoon.
Physics Girl
Season 4 / Ep 20
7 minutes 58 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Dianna wears a bright red blazer over a black shirt. She holds up a ladle like a microphone and pretends to interview an orange sitting on a black bar chair next to her. Her laptop is open on a table to her left.
Physics Girl
Season 4 / Ep 24
9 minutes 52 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Two black holes in the center of a galaxy. Caption: L I G O slash S X S slash R Hurt and T Pyle.
Physics Girl
Season 4 / Ep 11
30 minutes 25 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
A black hole in the center of a galaxy. Caption: Black hole.
Physics Girl
Season 4 / Ep 1
6 minutes 56 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
A giant concrete tunnel runs through a desert. Caption: Laser interferometer gravitational wave observatory.
Physics Girl
Season 4 / Ep 10
11 minutes 27 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
A part of the Large Hadron Collider in C E R N. Notice boards for danger and magnetic field is placed.
Physics Girl
Season 4 / Ep 15
10 minutes
Grade Level: 10 - 12
A whirlpool forms on the surface of water. Credit: Christine Westerback.
Physics Girl
Season 4 / Ep 4
6 minutes 13 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Streak of light across a night sky with a change in height of 15m and a length of 217m. Caption: If we know the distances and the time the shutter was open,
6 minutes 22 seconds
Grade Level: 11 - 12
ASL
Person holding a tool and working on something with wires. Caption: This is the first prototype of a project called BodyScape,
Profiles Of Scientists And Engineers
Episode 12
6 minutes 45 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
ASL
Person looking at a computer screen. Caption: We're looking at a 3D model of an early VacPac
Profiles Of Scientists And Engineers
Episode 15
8 minutes 6 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Two bicyclists on a city street with vehicles. Caption: Specifically, motion dynamics.
6 minutes 23 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Cardboard pieces cut and attached together to resemble robotic arms attempting to pick up rocks. Caption: Let's see if these robotic arms can pick up some space rocks.
Design Squad Nation
Episode 8
2 minutes 16 seconds
Grade Level: 3 - 8
Brightly colored bird with a beak almost as large as its body. Caption: You'd think it would be too beak-heavy to fly.
Science Nation
Episode 200
4 minutes 55 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Cluster of nerve fibers. Caption: that can image deep into biological tissue,
Science Nation
Episode 6
3 minutes 6 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Two people wearing dark glasses in front of a wall of monitors displaying geometric objects. One person holds a device with four glowing orbs on legs in his hand. Caption: envelop a viewer in a 3-D virtual world.
Science Nation
Episode 52
2 minutes 44 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Gloved hand holding a round plastic object and putting an electronic chip into it. Caption: to incorporate nanotechnologies into the process.
Science Nation
Episode 43
3 minutes 14 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Person touching an object made of stacked and connected cubes. Caption: are playing with Cubelets, small, smart modular robots.
Science Nation
Episode 84
2 minutes 36 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 12
White glowing orb against a black grid. Caption: Weakly Interacting Massive Particle
Science Nation
Episode 10
3 minutes 19 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Points of light spaced evenly across a surface. A rod with spheres extends down the center. Caption: It's a cubic kilometer full of sensors known as IceCube,
Science Nation
Episode 145
2 minutes 33 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Gloved hand holding two small dark discs. Caption: to bring ultra-high-temperature ceramics to marketplace.
Science Nation
Episode 44
3 minutes 3 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Microscopic view of a hexagonal structure with arms hovering above a spherical object. Caption: Cell-sized micro grippers retrieve tiny objects,
Science Nation
Episode 95
2 minutes 33 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Waves striking a man-made jetty of rock. Caption: could help solve the world's energy problems.
Science Nation
Episode 188
2 minutes 26 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Robotic arm working on an object. Caption: (narrator) The goal is not for robots to replace people altogether.
Science Nation
Episode 13
3 minutes 22 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Mechanical equipment with a glowing beam of blue and magenta light. Caption: I was excited, being able to build my own lasers,
Scientists & Engineers On Sofas (And Other Furnishings)
Episode 5
6 minutes 23 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
School of fish swimming in a tank. Caption: Sometimes they sink like these rocks.
Everyday Science for Preschoolers
Episode 4
1 minutes 33 seconds
Grade Level: Ps - 3
Four people in a yard holding balloons. One is on a ladder. Caption: Five, four, three, two, one.
Design Squad Nation
Episode 9
3 minutes 26 seconds
Grade Level: 3 - 8
Digital Yellow balls with smaller orange circles around their perimeters float on a violet background. Two of the orange circles are labeled, "Potassium," and "Sodium."
7 minutes 5 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Webs of black lines connect gray and red circles and form two columns at the left. A blue circle connects to a dashed fuchsia oval. Inside, a red circle with a plus side connects to three overlapping red and blue circles.
5 minutes 45 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Person holding a screw touching a paper clip. Caption: then this screw should be able to generate a magnetic field.
5 minutes 13 seconds
Grade Level: 5 - 8
Woman wrapped in a blanket. Caption: you'd have cloak that would be invisible.
Science Out Loud
Episode 7
5 minutes 35 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
A person skydiving. Caption: but all those tiny forces make a big force called drag,
Science Out Loud
Episode 8
3 minutes 46 seconds
Grade Level: 8 - 12
A man dropping a ball. Caption: potential energy gets converted into kinetic energy
Science Out Loud
Episode 6
5 minutes 5 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Person holding a twisted strip of material. Caption: This shape is called a Möbius strip.
Science Out Loud
Episode 8
4 minutes 47 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Still image from: Uno Dos of Trace: Fusion Breakthrough
Uno Dos of Trace
Episode 77
12 minutes 7 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Man sits at a podcasting desk with a large microphone in front of him. He holds out his hands as if he is explaining something to us.
Uno Dos of Trace
Episode 4
18 minutes 41 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Man sits at a podcasting desk with a large microphone in front of him. He points two fingers together on the desk as if he is explaining something to us.
Uno Dos of Trace
Episode 2
19 minutes 58 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Astronomy photo. In a telescopic shot, we see a ray of light at the edge of the universe shining brightly amidst blue clouds of stardust reaching out towards glowing red.
Uno Dos of Trace
Episode 1
14 minutes 48 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Podcast video. Raising his eyebrows, a man sits at a podcasting desk speaking into a large microphone.
Uno Dos of Trace
Episode 3
17 minutes 16 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Woman sits in front of a large blue microphone, explaining something to us. In the background is a chalkboard filled with mathematical equations.
Uno Dos of Trace
Episode 5
21 minutes 42 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Closeup of chunks of a white substance. Caption: So it's decomposing to ice plus gas.
6 minutes 44 seconds
Grade Level: 11 - 12
Computer generated image of a sphere composed of twisted interlocking tubes of various colors. Caption: Fractal research is changing fields such as biology.
Science Out Loud
Episode 19
4 minutes 12 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Two conductors attached to objects. Caption: but conducts electricity when it's very hot.
Science Out Loud
Episode 14
4 minutes 45 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
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