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Slashdot: Science http://science.slashdot.org/ News for nerds, stuff that matters en-us Copyright 1997-2008, SourceForge, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 2008-10-11T10:30:19+00:00 SourceForge, Inc. help@slashdot.org Technology hourly 1 1970-01-01T00:00+00:00 Slashdot: Science http://s.fsdn.com/sd/topics/topicslashdot.gif http://science.slashdot.org/ Arthropod Chain Gangs http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~3/CndS-c6kWjs/article.pl monk writes "Science News references a story in the October 10 Science about Cambrian invertebrates which formed weird permanent chains up to twenty individuals long. 'The discovery of 525-million-year-old fossils belonging to a new species of arthropod shows that these animals formed communal chains never before seen in fossilized invertebrates.' It should be obvious to any Slashdotter of a certain age that this is the true origin of the so called 'centipede' in the eponymous game."<a href="http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/10/10/2324252&from=rss"><img src="http://science.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=08/10/10/2324252"></a><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/10/10/2324252&from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot. <a href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/s4WWFI-rjfVGTB3RrxiihmmWffw/a"><img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/s4WWFI-rjfVGTB3RrxiihmmWffw/i" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~4/CndS-c6kWjs" height="1" width="1"/> timothy 2008-10-11T01:14:00+00:00 earth early-gamers science 22 22,19,10,7,4,3,3 http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/10/10/2324252&from=rss How US Schools' Culture Stifles Math Achievement http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~3/VJ78KEdyxOU/article.pl Zarf writes "I'd like to file a bug report on the US educational system. The New York Times reports on a recent study that shows the US fails to encourage academic talent as a culture.'"There is something about the culture in American society today which doesn't really seem to encourage men or women in mathematics," said Michael Sipser, the head of M.I.T.'s math department. "Sports achievement gets lots of coverage in the media. Academic achievement gets almost none."' While we've suspected that the US might be falling behind academically, this study shows that it is actually due to cultural factors that are devaluing the success of our students. I suspect there's a flaw in the US cultural system that prevents achievement on the academic front as valuable. Could anyone suggest a patch for this bug or is this cause for a rewrite?"<a href="http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/10/10/234230&from=rss"><img src="http://science.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=08/10/10/234230"></a><a href="http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/10/10/234230&from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot. <a href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/wivOpEfvh4ZgNKvVxS_Ji8FUr68/a"><img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/wivOpEfvh4ZgNKvVxS_Ji8FUr68/i" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~4/VJ78KEdyxOU" height="1" width="1"/> timothy 2008-10-10T23:18:00+00:00 education expensive-gubmint-babysitting-castles news 577 577,569,460,343,102,60,33 http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/10/10/234230&from=rss Algorithms Can Make You Pretty http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~3/1fuU4Ge6-Do/article.pl caffeinemessiah writes "The New York Times has an interesting story on a new algorithm by researchers from Tel Aviv University that modifies a facial picture of a person to conform to standards of attractiveness. Based on a digital library of pictures of people who have been judged 'attractive,' the algorithm finds the nearest match and modifies an input picture so it conforms to the 'attractive' person's proportions. The trick, however, is that the resultant pictures are still recognizable as the original person. Here's a quick link to a representative picture of the process. Note that this is a machine-learning approach to picture modification, not a characterization of beauty, and could just as easily be used to make a person less attractive." Note: As reader Trent Waddington points out, the underlying research was mentioned in an earlier story as well.<a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/10/09/2213259&from=rss"><img src="http://science.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=08/10/09/2213259"></a><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/10/09/2213259&from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot. <a href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/Md9JQZ1TGxjpbljf_W7W8cgbsRc/a"><img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/Md9JQZ1TGxjpbljf_W7W8cgbsRc/i" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~4/1fuU4Ge6-Do" height="1" width="1"/> timothy 2008-10-09T22:48:00+00:00 software too-late-for-me tech 285 285,280,230,179,64,43,29 http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/10/09/2213259&from=rss Messenger Sends First Full Fly-By Image of Mercury http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~3/W_9vK3cDkFA/article.pl An anonymous reader writes with this snippet from Gizmodo: "NASA's Messenger (MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry and Ranging spacecraft) has flown by just 125 miles over the surface of Mercury, the closest planet to the Sun and the smallest in the Solar System. This is the first time in history that the whole planet is going to be photographed in its entirety by an Earthling probe, with amazing resolution and ultra-crisp detail." The picture at the top of the linked story is fantastic, too.<a href="http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/10/09/2043206&from=rss"><img src="http://science.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=08/10/09/2043206"></a><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/10/09/2043206&from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot. <a href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/OPdZXuIwyMbKaUcT_oROZwyiF5w/a"><img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/OPdZXuIwyMbKaUcT_oROZwyiF5w/i" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~4/W_9vK3cDkFA" height="1" width="1"/> timothy 2008-10-09T21:25:00+00:00 space most-strained-backformation-name-ever science 53 53,53,40,32,10,6,5 http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/10/09/2043206&from=rss Unbelievably Large Telescopes On the Moon? http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~3/0GT7djft0pE/article.pl Matt_dk writes "A team of internationally renowned astronomers and opticians may have found a way to make "unbelievably large" telescopes on the Moon. 'It's so simple,' says Ermanno F. Borra, physics professor at the Optics Laboratory of Laval University in Quebec, Canada. 'Isaac Newton knew that any liquid, if put into a shallow container and set spinning, naturally assumes a parabolic shape, the same shape needed by a telescope mirror to bring starlight to a focus. This could be the key to making a giant lunar observatory.'"<a href="http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/10/09/1217219&from=rss"><img src="http://science.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=08/10/09/1217219"></a><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/10/09/1217219&from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot. <a href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/np6dacOn4rLcutZtgR57lQgqgyI/a"><img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/np6dacOn4rLcutZtgR57lQgqgyI/i" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~4/0GT7djft0pE" height="1" width="1"/> CmdrTaco 2008-10-09T12:46:00+00:00 moon thats-no-moon science 289 289,286,211,163,47,29,22 http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/10/09/1217219&from=rss Geneticist Claims Human Evolution Is Over http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~3/n6WL5piLL_w/article.pl GogglesPisano writes "UK geneticist Steve Jones gave a presentation entitled Human Evolution Is Over. He asserts that human beings have stopped evolving because modern social customs have lowered the age at which human males have offspring, which results in fewer of the mutations necessary to drive evolutionary change. Apparently the fate of our species now depends upon older guys hooking up with younger woman. I, for one, welcome this development."<a href="http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/10/08/2239229&from=rss"><img src="http://science.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=08/10/08/2239229"></a><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/10/08/2239229&from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot. <a href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/nlSNrQl1ZlUOK4GLSOu64-mjeqs/a"><img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/nlSNrQl1ZlUOK4GLSOu64-mjeqs/i" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~4/n6WL5piLL_w" height="1" width="1"/> samzenpus 2008-10-09T04:27:00+00:00 biotech flame-on science 828 828,817,671,492,118,72,50 http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/10/08/2239229&from=rss Odd Planet Confuses Scientists http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~3/NHz79kMr4Jg/article.pl eldavojohn writes "While there's been a lot of debate about what is a planet, there is a recent discovery that has scientists even more confused. COROT (COnvection ROtation and planetary Transits) spotted an object that appears to be the size of Jupiter yet is 21.6 times more massive ... and orbits its star in a mere four days and six hours. Now, the other piece of the puzzle is that the star it orbits is more massive and only slightly larger than our Sun. But they can't describe this thing orbiting it. So far they think it is more likely to be a 'failed star' but have settled with 'member of a new-found family of very massive planets that encircle stars more massive than the sun' to describe it accurately."<a href="http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/10/08/2241204&from=rss"><img src="http://science.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=08/10/08/2241204"></a><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/10/08/2241204&from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot. <a href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/ITATqbEB_85JJk51z34PcnxygmU/a"><img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/ITATqbEB_85JJk51z34PcnxygmU/i" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~4/NHz79kMr4Jg" height="1" width="1"/> samzenpus 2008-10-08T23:55:00+00:00 space that's-no-moon science 142 142,133,102,82,31,15,9 http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/10/08/2241204&from=rss Mathematicians Deconstruct US News College Rankings http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~3/ExddKKY4uuw/article.pl An anonymous reader writes "US News makes a mint off its college rankings every year, but do they really give meaningful information? A pair of mathematicians argues that the data the magazine uses is all likely to be at least somewhat relevant, but that the way the magazine weights the different statistics is pretty arbitrary. After all, different people may have different priorities. So they developed a method to compute the rankings based on any possible set of priorities. To do it, they had to reverse-engineer some of US News's data. What they found was that some colleges come out on top pretty much regardless of the prioritization, but others move around quite a lot. And the top-ranked university can vary tremendously. Penn State, which is #48 using US News's methodology, could be the best university in the country, by other standards."<a href="http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/10/08/2037225&from=rss"><img src="http://science.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=08/10/08/2037225"></a><a href="http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/10/08/2037225&from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot. <a href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/qWdKSbLPe8aUnOJ8ruGrqpJoBnQ/a"><img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/qWdKSbLPe8aUnOJ8ruGrqpJoBnQ/i" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~4/ExddKKY4uuw" height="1" width="1"/> timothy 2008-10-08T21:00:00+00:00 education deep-springs-college news 160 160,159,122,93,32,19,13 http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/10/08/2037225&from=rss Watching Brain Cells In Action http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~3/F-igZkiv79c/article.pl Roland Piquepaille writes "A Stanford University team has developed a microscope weighing only 1.1 grams. It is so small that it can be mounted to the head of a freely moving mouse to watch its brain cell activity. According to what the lead researcher told New Scientist, 'A lot of work has been done using brain slices, or anaesthetised animals — even using animals that are awake but restrained. But so far it has been impossible to image cellular-level activity in a freely moving mouse.' Not any more. And as mice are the 'preferred' animals in medical labs, this new kind of microscope could lead to new ways to study human diseases."<a href="http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/10/08/2028206&from=rss"><img src="http://science.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=08/10/08/2028206"></a><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/10/08/2028206&from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot. <a href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/9XWzvKGPNONXpMBYckEVZaVwRKI/a"><img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/9XWzvKGPNONXpMBYckEVZaVwRKI/i" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~4/F-igZkiv79c" height="1" width="1"/> timothy 2008-10-08T20:42:00+00:00 biotech as-if-mice-have-brains science 37 37,37,29,23,9,3,0 http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/10/08/2028206&from=rss Fluorescent Protein Research Lands Scientists Nobel Prize http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~3/9pAgs3JvPJo/article.pl Iddo Genuth writes "The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has announced three recipients of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry award for 2008: jointly given to Osamu Shimomura, Martin Chalfie and Roger Y. Tsien 'for the discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein, GFP' — a remarkable brightly glowing green fluorescent protein first observed in the beautiful jellyfish, Aequorea victoria, in 1962."<a href="http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/10/08/1911237&from=rss"><img src="http://science.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=08/10/08/1911237"></a><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/10/08/1911237&from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot. <a href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/_LjOZ9UCkgF7jGTSbYndevmSeIM/a"><img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/_LjOZ9UCkgF7jGTSbYndevmSeIM/i" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~4/9pAgs3JvPJo" height="1" width="1"/> timothy 2008-10-08T19:37:00+00:00 biotech also-will-change-dinner-forever science 79 79,79,62,42,16,8,5 http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/10/08/1911237&from=rss Asteroid Explodes Over Sudan http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~3/dYBLgqLxn8U/article.pl radioweather writes "A recently discovered Apollo Asteroid, 2008 TC3, exploded over Sudan at about 1046 EDT on October 7, 2008, according to astronomer Tim Spahr of Harvard University 2008 TC3 was discovered on Monday by an observer at the Mt Lemmon Observatory near Tucson, Arizona. 2008 TC3 is notable in that it is the first Asteroid of its size that was identified before impact and tracking it put the entire Spaceguard tracking system to an extreme test. TC3 is estimated to be only two to five meters in diameter but exploded with the force of a one kiloton of explosive power." We mentioned the asteroid last on Monday, when it was only at a 99.8 percent chance of colliding with Earth.<a href="http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/10/08/1829240&from=rss"><img src="http://science.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=08/10/08/1829240"></a><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/10/08/1829240&from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot. <a href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/bfI9VytWw1lqDCNo4K5BPtSfRyU/a"><img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/bfI9VytWw1lqDCNo4K5BPtSfRyU/i" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~4/dYBLgqLxn8U" height="1" width="1"/> timothy 2008-10-08T18:34:00+00:00 space did-it-make-a-noise science 113 113,107,84,60,22,10,7 http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/10/08/1829240&from=rss Free Online Scientific Repository Hits Milestone http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~3/IdZLumYeN2k/article.pl ocean_soul writes "Last week the free and open access repository for scientific (mainly physics but also math, computer sciences...) papers arXiv got past 500,000 different papers, not counting older versions of the same article. Especially for physicists, it is the number-one resource for the latest scientific results. Most researchers publish their papers on arXiv before they are published in a 'normal' journal. A famous example is Grisha Perelman, who published his award-winning paper exclusively on arXiv."<a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/10/08/1255256&from=rss"><img src="http://science.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=08/10/08/1255256"></a><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/10/08/1255256&from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot. <a href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/lRU1Qs2loEH0hg3wpye-wp1kfsY/a"><img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/lRU1Qs2loEH0hg3wpye-wp1kfsY/i" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~4/IdZLumYeN2k" height="1" width="1"/> CmdrTaco 2008-10-08T14:24:00+00:00 internet a-whole-lotta-smart-stuff tech 111 111,109,96,66,28,15,9 http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/10/08/1255256&from=rss Working Calculator Created in LittleBigPlanet http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~3/kEvI5kvmROU/article.pl jamie pointed out a really impressive creation from the LittleBigPlanet beta. The game allows the creation of puzzles from a collection of simple objects and tools. A player called upsilandre used 610 magnetic switches, 500 wires, 430 pistons, and a variety of other objects to create a functioning calculator that will do decimal/binary conversions as well as addition and subtraction. The creation does well to illustrate the potential for amazing creativity in level design. Another user recently designed a level to play the Final Fantasy X theme song. LittleBigPlanet is almost finished and set to be released later this month, though the controls may be refined in a future patch. We recently discussed a student level-design event at the Parsons New School for Design and Technology.<a href="http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/10/07/2232247&from=rss"><img src="http://science.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=08/10/07/2232247"></a><a href="http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/10/07/2232247&from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot. <a href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/ou01XhyhJs8uzikd008zerd9Bx8/a"><img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/ou01XhyhJs8uzikd008zerd9Bx8/i" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~4/kEvI5kvmROU" height="1" width="1"/> Soulskill 2008-10-07T22:11:00+00:00 math impressive games 140 140,134,109,79,31,19,10 http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/10/07/2232247&from=rss UK's Loughborough Uni Demos Hydrogen Motorcycle http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~3/paBQMAnZBoM/article.pl rolandw writes "The Beeb have a piece about Loughborough University's hydrogen motorcycle and one of the UK's first hydrogen fuel pumps (presumably all developed by their excellent Aeronautical and Automotive Engineering department). Offering 50mph, the ENV will have a range of 100 miles on a 3-minute refill of hydrogen. By-products are warm air and 'drinkable' water. It will be interesting to compare these hydrogen powered vehicles with the hydrogen fuel cell-powered vehicles as pioneered by such as the Morgan prototype 'Lifecar' in the near future."<a href="http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/10/07/1533224&from=rss"><img src="http://science.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=08/10/07/1533224"></a><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/10/07/1533224&from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot. <a href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/2A1Y_QgvEV63VsMZQrcuCpwHy-s/a"><img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/2A1Y_QgvEV63VsMZQrcuCpwHy-s/i" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~4/paBQMAnZBoM" height="1" width="1"/> timothy 2008-10-07T16:00:00+00:00 power drinking-tube-straight-from-exhaust science 120 120,119,106,81,12,3,1 http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/10/07/1533224&from=rss Next-Gen Mars Rover In Danger of Cancellation http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~3/y1W52buFtCA/article.pl OriginalArlen writes "NASA's next-generation rover, the nuclear-powered, laser-equipped Mars Science Laboratory is reported to be at a serious risk of cancellation due to budget and schedule overruns, including non-delivery of vital parts by a subcontractor. Costs are running over $2B so far, and the already thin schedule of Mars missions planned for the next decade — with budget ring-fenced for an outer-planets flagship mission — is in danger of further cuts."<a href="http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/10/07/157200&from=rss"><img src="http://science.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=08/10/07/157200"></a><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/10/07/157200&from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot. <a href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/8Duov87VlaiUtKQmOCYsEjzocV8/a"><img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/8Duov87VlaiUtKQmOCYsEjzocV8/i" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~4/y1W52buFtCA" height="1" width="1"/> timothy 2008-10-07T15:43:00+00:00 mars infinite-possibilities-finite-taxpayers science 210 210,206,168,136,35,24,15 http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/10/07/157200&from=rss Search Slashdot Search Slashdot stories query http://science.slashdot.org/search.pl

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