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155 talks·155 with video·152 speakers·Vancouver, Canada·March 2015

How CRISPR lets us edit our DNA
by Jennifer Doudna
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"Rollercoaster"
by Sara Ramirez
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4 powerful poems about Parkinson's and growing older
by Robin Morgan
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A beatboxing lesson from a father-daughter duo
by Nicole Paris and Ed Cage
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A better way to talk about abortion
by Aspen Baker
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A hilarious celebration of lifelong female friendship
by Jane Fonda
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A mandolin master's tribute to keeping your day job
by Johnny Staats
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A new superweapon in the fight against cancer
by Paula Hammond
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A provocative way to finance the fight against climate change
by Michael Metcalfe
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A solution for building a generation of inventors
by Joachim Horn
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A song for my hero, the woman who rowed into a hurricane
by Dawn Landes
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A super-strong plastic that reverts to dust
by Jeannette Garcia
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A tale of two Americas. And the mini-mart where they collided
by Anand Giridharadas
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A temporary tattoo that brings hospital care to the home
by Todd Coleman
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A visual history of human knowledge
by Manuel Lima
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A visual history of inequality in industrial America
by LaToya Ruby Frazier
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A warrior’s cry against child marriage
by Memory Banda
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An 11-year-old prodigy performs old-school jazz
by Joey Alexander
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An easy way to cook up innovation
by Joachim Horn
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An electrifying acoustic guitar performance
by Rodrigo y Gabriela
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An invitation to men who want a better world for women
by Elizabeth Nyamayaro
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Are China and the US doomed to conflict?
by Kevin Rudd
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Can 0.7% of corporate profits fund the world's biggest problems?
by Sahil Sethi
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Can a teddybear change how children relate to their own disease?
by Aaron Horowitz
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Can we create new senses for humans?
by David Eagleman
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Capitalism will eat democracy -- unless we speak up
by Yanis Varoufakis
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Climate change is happening. Here's how we adapt
by Alice Bows-Larkin
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Could Moby Dick prevent the next financial crisis?
by Suzanne Case
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Could we cure HIV with lasers?
by Patience Mthunzi
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Deep under the Earth's surface, discovering beauty and science
by Francesco Sauro
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Do we see reality as it is?
by Donald Hoffman
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Easing water scarcity by understanding when and where it flows
by Kala Fleming
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Everyone around you has a story the world needs to hear
by Dave Isay
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Family businesses are here to stay, and thrive
by Vikram Bhalla
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Forget Wi-Fi. Meet the new Li-Fi Internet
by Harald Haas
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Have we reached the end of physics?
by Harry Cliff
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Help for kids the education system ignores
by Victor Rios
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Home is a song I've always remembered
by Teitur
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How a company can nurture its internal rebels
by Shoel Perelman
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How an entrepreneurial potter helped restore beauty to a city
by Emma Bridgewater
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How data from a crisis text line is saving lives
by Nancy Lublin
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How equal do we want the world to be? You'd be surprised
by Dan Ariely
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How fear drives American politics
by David Rothkopf
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How I fell in love with quasars, blazars and our incredible universe
by Jedidah Isler
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How I teach kids to love science
by Cesar Harada
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How I use sonar to navigate the world
by Daniel Kish
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How I'm working for change inside my church
by Chelsea Shields
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How Mars might hold the secret to the origin of life
by Nathalie Cabrol
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How new technology helps blind people explore the world
by Chieko Asakawa
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How students of color confront impostor syndrome
by Dena Simmons
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How the mysterious dark net is going mainstream
by Jamie Bartlett
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How this FBI strategy is actually creating US-based terrorists
by Trevor Aaronson
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How to avoid surveillance ... with the phone in your pocket
by Christopher Soghoian
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How to control someone else's arm with your brain
by Greg Gage
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How to make a profit while making a difference
by Audrey Choi
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How to make peace? Get angry
by Kailash Satyarthi
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How to raise a Black son in America
by Clint Smith
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How to raise successful kids -- without over-parenting
by Julie Lythcott-Haims
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How to stay calm when you know you'll be stressed
by Daniel Levitin
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How too many rules at work keep you from getting things done
by Yves Morieux
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How virtual reality can create the ultimate empathy machine
by Chris Milk
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How we can make crops survive without water
by Jill Farrant
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How we'll fight the next deadly virus
by Pardis Sabeti
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How we'll find life on other planets
by Aomawa Shields
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How we're priming some kids for college — and others for prison
by Alice Goffman
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How we're teaching computers to understand pictures
by Fei-Fei Li
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How yarn bombing grew into a worldwide movement
by Magda Sayeg
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How young blood might help reverse aging. Yes, really
by Tony Wyss-Coray
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HR lessons from the world of Silicon Valley start-ups
by Patty McCord
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Human trafficking is all around you. This is how it works
by Noy Thrupkaew
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Hunger isn't a food issue. It's a logistics issue
by Esther Ndichu
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I am the donation
by Kevin Etter
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Imagining a new future for health systems in Africa
by Mathieu Lamiaux
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Industry 4.0: how intelligent machines will transform everything we know
by Markus Lorenz
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Let's design social media that drives real change
by Wael Ghonim
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Let's not use Mars as a backup planet
by Lucianne Walkowicz
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Machines need an algorithm for humor. This is what it looks like
by Vinith Misra
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Meet the women fighting on the front lines of an American war
by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
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My daughter, my wife, our robot, and the quest for immortality
by Martine Rothblatt
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My journey from Marine to actor
by Adam Driver
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My road trip through the whitest towns in America
by Rich Benjamin
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My year reading a book from every country in the world
by Ann Morgan
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New video technology that reveals an object's hidden properties
by Abe Davis
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One woman, five characters, and a sex lesson from the future
by Sarah Jones
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Our campaign to ban plastic bags in Bali
by Melati and Isabel Wijsen
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Our lonely society makes it hard to come home from war
by Sebastian Junger
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Perfectionism holds us back. Here's why
by Charly Haversat
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Programming bacteria to detect cancer (and maybe treat it)
by Tal Danino
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Reinventing creative thinking
by Luc de Brabandere
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Rethinking infidelity ... a talk for anyone who has ever loved
by Esther Perel
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Social services are broken. How we can fix them
by Hilary Cottam
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Street art with a message of hope and peace
by eL Seed
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The amazing story of the man who gave us modern pain relief
by Latif Nasser
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The argument for trouble
by Mark Modesti
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The art of first impressions -- in design and life
by Chip Kidd
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The art of letting go...of the floor
by Siawn Ou
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The case for engineering our food
by Pamela Ronald
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The dancer, the singer, the cellist ... and a moment of creative magic
by Bill T. Jones
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The enchanting music of sign language
by Christine Sun Kim
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The first secret of design is ... noticing
by Tony Fadell
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The future of news? Virtual reality
by Nonny de la Pena
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The future of supercomputers? A quantum chip colder than outer space
by Jerry Chow
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The hardest step in innovation? Looking foolish in front of the crowd
by Jack Levis
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The hidden reason for poverty the world needs to address now
by Gary Haugen
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The joy of surfing in ice-cold water
by Chris Burkard
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The math behind basketball's wildest moves
by Rajiv Maheswaran
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The mathematician who cracked Wall Street
by Jim Simons
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The next outbreak? We're not ready
by Bill Gates
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The price of shame
by Monica Lewinsky
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The problem with race-based medicine
by Dorothy Roberts
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The real harm of the global arms trade
by Samantha Nutt
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The secret to effective nonviolent resistance
by Jamila Raqib
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The secret US prisons you've never heard of before
by Will Potter
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The single biggest reason why start-ups succeed
by Bill Gross
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The spellbinding art of human anatomy
by Vanessa Ruiz
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The story we tell about poverty isn't true
by Mia Birdsong
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The surprising thing I learned sailing solo around the world
by Dame Ellen MacArthur
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The surprising way groups like ISIS stay in power
by Benedetta Berti
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The surprisingly logical minds of babies
by Laura Schulz
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The troubling reason why vaccines are made too late ... if they're made at all
by Seth Berkley
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The unexpected beauty of everyday sounds
by Meklit Hadero
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The unheard story of the Sistine Chapel
by Elizabeth Lev
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The untapped genius that could change science for the better
by Jedidah Isler
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These robots come to the rescue after a disaster
by Robin Murphy
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This app knows how you feel -- from the look on your face
by Rana El Kaliouby
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This is what it's like to go undercover in North Korea
by Suki Kim
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This is what LGBT life is like around the world
by Jenni Chang and Lisa Dazols
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Two nameless bodies washed up on the beach. Here are their stories
by Anders Fjellberg
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Two reasons companies fail -- and how to avoid them
by Knut Haanaes
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Want kids to learn well? Feed them well
by Sam Kass
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We need to turn our response to crisis inside out
by Shalini Unnikrishnan
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We train soldiers for war. Let's train them to come home, too
by Hector Garcia
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What brands can learn from online dating
by Sarah Willersdorf
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What do we do when antibiotics don't work any more?
by Maryn McKenna
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What happens when our computers get smarter than we are?
by Nick Bostrom
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What if 3D printing was 100x faster?
by Joseph DeSimone
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What my religion really says about women
by Alaa Murabit
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What really happens when you mix medications?
by Russ Altman
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What really matters at the end of life
by BJ Miller
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When online shaming goes too far
by Jon Ronson
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Why being your true self is the most selfless act
by Kelly Lepley
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Why city flags may be the worst-designed thing you've never noticed
by Roman Mars
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Why do ambitious women have flat heads?
by Dame Stephanie Shirley
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Why gender equality is good for everyone — men included
by Michael Kimmel
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Why great architecture should tell a story
by Ole Scheeren
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Why open a school? To close a prison
by Nadia Lopez
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Why public beheadings get millions of views
by Frances Larson
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Why the best hire might not have the perfect resume
by Regina Hartley
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Why we laugh
by Sophie Scott
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Why we need to rethink capitalism
by Paul Tudor Jones II
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Why your doctor should care about social justice
by Mary Bassett
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Wisdom from great writers on every year of life
by Joshua Prager
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You can grow new brain cells. Here's how
by Sandrine Thuret
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You have no idea where camels really come from
by Latif Nasser
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Your kids might live on Mars. Here's how they'll survive
by Stephen Petranek
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