BrainStuff

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Whether the topic is popcorn or particle physics, you can count on BrainStuff to explore -- and explain -- the everyday science in the world around us.

Episode Date
How Do Platypuses Work?
Nov 30, 2024
Why Do We All Have Snot?
Nov 29, 2024
How Do Pop-Up Turkey Timers Work?
Nov 28, 2024
BrainStuff Classics: Do Footballs Fly Farther in Denver?
Nov 24, 2024
Is There a Dark Side of the Moon?
Nov 23, 2024
How Does Cream of Tartar Work in Baked Goods and Beyond?
Nov 22, 2024
Do You Know These Myths About the Flu?
Nov 21, 2024
How Does Jane Goodall Work?
Nov 20, 2024
How Does the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) Work?
Nov 11, 2024
Why Can a Convicted Felon Run for U.S. President?
Nov 05, 2024
How Does Xenophobia Work?
Nov 04, 2024
BrainStuff Classics: Why Should You Stop Raking Fall Leaves?
Nov 03, 2024
How Did Tyrannosaurus rex Work?
Nov 02, 2024
La Pascualita: Bridal Mannequin or Embalmed Corpse?
Nov 01, 2024
How Do Ouija Boards Work?
Oct 31, 2024
Does Gunslinger Tom Horn Haunt the American West?
Oct 30, 2024
BrainStuff Classics: Why Do We Make Our Monsters Cute?
Oct 26, 2024
How Do Yaks Work?
Oct 25, 2024
Can Absinthe Really Make You Hallucinate?
Oct 24, 2024
Is There Life in Antarctica's Volcanic Ice Caves?
Oct 23, 2024
How Was Vasco da Gama, Portugal's Columbus, Just as Controversial?
Oct 22, 2024
Is Genius Genetic?
Oct 16, 2024
BrainStuff Classics: Why Are Suburbs So Unwalkable?
Oct 15, 2024
BrainStuff Classics: How Many People Really Have Food Allergies?
Oct 14, 2024
Who Was Sparticus?
Oct 13, 2024
Why Is the Panama Canal a Modern Wonder of the World?
Oct 12, 2024
How Can Microorganisms Make Food Delicious and Nutritious?
Oct 11, 2024
How Common Is Depression?
Oct 10, 2024
How Does Jupiter Work?
Oct 09, 2024
BrainStuff Classics: Skim Versus Whole Milk: Which Spoils Faster?
Sep 29, 2024
BrainStuff Classics: Why Do Scorpions Glow Under Black Light?
Sep 28, 2024
How Have Hispanic Scientists Changed the World?
Sep 27, 2024
Could We Resurrect the Dodo?
Sep 26, 2024
What Do We Know (and Not Know) About Depression?
Sep 25, 2024
Should There Be Age Limits on the U.S. Presidency?
Sep 24, 2024
Who Invented Doughnuts?
Sep 10, 2024
How Can Owls Fly So Quietly?
Sep 09, 2024
How Did Calamity Jane Work?
Sep 06, 2024
What Is the Pacific Ring of Fire?
Sep 05, 2024
How Did the Arc de Triomphe Become a Parisian Icon?
Sep 02, 2024
How Did Pretty Boy Floyd Become Public Enemy No. 1?
Aug 30, 2024
Why Are People Mean on the Internet?
Aug 29, 2024
How Does the Pink Fairy Armadillo Work?
Aug 28, 2024
How Do the Three Branches of the U.S. Government Work (Or Not Work) Together?
Aug 19, 2024
BrainStuff Classics: Will Saturn's Rings Last Forever?
Aug 18, 2024
BrainStuff Classics: Do Whales Have Pop Songs?
Aug 17, 2024
How Did the Internet Get Its Start?
Aug 16, 2024
What Does It Mean When Art Is Public Domain?
Aug 15, 2024
How Do Pelicans Work?
Aug 14, 2024
How Can You Prepare for a Hurricane?
Aug 13, 2024
How Was the Barbie Doll Invented?
Aug 12, 2024
How Does the Blue-Tongued Skink Work?
Jul 30, 2024
How Can Forest Fires Be Beneficial?
Jul 29, 2024
BrainStuff Classics: What Is Light?
Jul 28, 2024
BrainStuff Classics: Why Are Peat Bogs So Good at Preserving Human Remains?
Jul 27, 2024
How Did the Word 'Hack' Get Hacked?
Jul 26, 2024
How Do Sharks' Senses Work?
Jul 25, 2024
How Did Annie Londonderry Rock the World on a Bicycle?
Jul 15, 2024
Is It Safe to Eat Raw Oysters During Any Month?
Jul 06, 2024
How Do Space Bathrooms Work?
Jul 05, 2024
How Do Bald Eagles Work?
Jul 04, 2024
Why Do Music and Art Move Us?
Jun 25, 2024
BrainStuff Classics: Are the Dare Stones Forgeries or the Key to the Roanoke Mystery?
Jun 24, 2024
BrainStuff Classics: Why Do Bruises Change Color?
Jun 23, 2024
Could You Hear In Space?
Jun 22, 2024
How Do Dingoes Work (and Did One Really Eat a Baby?)
Jun 21, 2024
How Did Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation Work?
Jun 19, 2024
How Do Pickles Work?
Jun 18, 2024
Which Athletes Live the Longest?
Jun 17, 2024
BrainStuff Classics: Why Does Helium Make Your Voice Squeaky?
Jun 16, 2024
BrainStuff Classics: How Can a Star Become a Giant Crystal?
Jun 15, 2024
How Did Cesar Chavez Change the Labor Movement?
Jun 14, 2024
How Do Giraffes Have Such Long Necks?
Jun 11, 2024
How Does Aspic Work?
Jun 11, 2024
Did the Maya Civilization Fall Because of Climate Change?
May 06, 2024
BrainStuff Classics: What's the History of Nail Polish?
May 05, 2024
BrainStuff Classics: Do Dogs Get Embarrassed When We Put Them in Costumes?
May 04, 2024
If a Stop Light Is Stuck on Red, What Can You Do?
May 03, 2024
How Did Benedict Arnold Become So Infamous?
May 02, 2024
How Do Pallas's Cats Work?
May 01, 2024
What's the Difference Between Sociopathy and Psychopathy?
Apr 30, 2024
Are Humans Built to Drink Milk After Childhood?
Apr 19, 2024
How Should You Escape a Sinking Car?
Apr 18, 2024
How Do Cherry Blossom Trees Work?
Apr 17, 2024
How Did Bessie Stringfield Shape Motorcycle History?
Apr 16, 2024
How Do Squirrels Organize Their Hoards?
Apr 15, 2024
BrainStuff Classics: What Makes Some Lakes Explode?
Mar 18, 2024
BrainStuff Classics: Why Is Palm Oil in So Many Things?
Mar 17, 2024
Where Did the Word 'OK' Come From?
Mar 16, 2024
Should You Beware the Ides of March?
Mar 15, 2024
How Do Fruit Bats Work?
Mar 14, 2024
What Are Meat Sweats?
Mar 13, 2024
How Did Susan B. Anthony Work?
Mar 05, 2024
BrainStuff Classics: What Happens When Elevator Cables Break?
Mar 04, 2024
BrainStuff Classics: How Can I Donate My Brain to Science?
Mar 03, 2024
Why Is the Ocean Different Colors?
Mar 02, 2024
Are You Picturing the Right Brachiosaurus?
Mar 01, 2024
How Does Critical Race Theory Work?
Feb 29, 2024
Is Oxytocin Really A Love Drug?
Feb 28, 2024
How Do Pistol Shrimp Work?
Feb 27, 2024
BrainStuff Classics: Why Did London Once Have a Train for the Dead?
Feb 17, 2024
BrainStuff Classics: Why Does Beer Foam Last Longer Than Soda Foam?
Feb 16, 2024
How Did Maya Angelou Work?
Feb 15, 2024
How Does Scurvy Work?
Feb 14, 2024
Do Cows Really Pollute As Much As Cars?
Feb 13, 2024
Where Does Earth's Water Come From?
Feb 06, 2024
Why Does the Orchid Mantis Imitate Flowers?
Feb 05, 2024
BrainStuff Classics: When We Lose Weight, Where Does It Go?
Feb 04, 2024
BrainStuff Classics: What Can Probiotics Really Do?
Feb 03, 2024
Is Jaywalking Still a Crime?
Feb 02, 2024
Why Is the Bradford Pear Tree Bad – Even Beyond the Smell?
Feb 01, 2024
How Does Burns Night Work?
Jan 25, 2024
How Do White Dwarf Stars Shred Planets?
Jan 24, 2024
How Do Axolotls Work?
Jan 23, 2024
BrainStuff Classics: Why Are Stop Signs Red?
Jan 22, 2024
BrainStuff Classics: Why Do We Test Middle Schoolers' Fitness?
Jan 21, 2024
Are Burner Phones Really Anonymous?
Jan 20, 2024
When Did Scientists Hide Under Beds to Do Research?
Jan 19, 2024
How Can Bacteria Change the World?
Jan 18, 2024
What Animals Reshape Earth's Waterways?
Jan 17, 2024
BrainStuff Classics: Could Neanderthals Laugh?
Jan 16, 2024
How Do They Get the Fat Out of Fat-Free Foods?
Jan 13, 2024
BrainStuff Classics: How Do We Define the Kilogram?
Jan 11, 2024
Who Were the Baddest Bank Robbers You've Never Heard Of?
Jan 10, 2024
How Do Banyan Trees Work?
Jan 09, 2024
How Do Male Seahorses Give Birth?
Jan 06, 2024
What Laws Apply on a Cruise Ship?
Jan 05, 2024
How Does Marzipan Work?
Jan 04, 2024
BrainStuff Classics: Why Does Ice Get Cloudy?
Dec 27, 2023
BrainStuff Classics: Why Are Christmas Trees That Shape?
Dec 26, 2023
How Did the 1800s Create Christmas as We Know It?
Dec 25, 2023
How Far Can the Human Eye See?
Dec 24, 2023
What Can Be Found at the Paris Bureau of Found Objects?
Dec 23, 2023
How Is a 19th-Century Obscenity Law Being Used to Ban Reproductive Health Care?
Dec 22, 2023
How Do Sailfish Work?
Dec 21, 2023
BrainStuff Classics: Can Cheese Actually Make Wine Taste Better?
Dec 06, 2023
BrainStuff Classics: Who Is Krampus?
Dec 05, 2023
What Came First, the Chicken or the Egg?
Dec 04, 2023
How Does Terracotta Work?
Dec 03, 2023
How Does Buzz Aldrin Work?
Dec 02, 2023
How Do Poinsettias Work?
Dec 01, 2023
What Is Zionism?
Nov 27, 2023
How Do Marmosets Work?
Nov 26, 2023
BrainStuff Classics: How Did the Inca Knot Language Work?
Nov 25, 2023
BrainStuff Classics: Does Turkey Really Make You Sleepy?
Nov 24, 2023
What's the History of Thanksgiving?
Nov 23, 2023
How Can Bugs Help Solve Murders?
Nov 22, 2023
How Does the Saguaro Cactus Work?
Nov 17, 2023
What Are Those Black Squiggles on Roads?
Nov 16, 2023
Why Do Distant Mountains Appear Blue?
Nov 15, 2023
BrainStuff Classics: Why Do Dogs' Paws Smell Like Corn Chips?
Nov 12, 2023
BrainStuff Classics: Will Temperature Changes Make You Sick?
Nov 11, 2023
How Big Can a Tree Grow?
Nov 08, 2023
Has London Bridge Ever Fallen Down?
Nov 07, 2023
How Does the Slow Cone Snail Catch Prey?
Nov 06, 2023
How Does el Día de los Muertos Work?
Nov 01, 2023
How Did Safety Coffins Ease Fears of Premature Burial?
Oct 31, 2023
BrainStuff Classics: Are Yeti Just a Bunch of Bears?
Oct 29, 2023
BrainStuff Classics: Why Does Hot Food Seem More Satisfying?
Oct 28, 2023
What's the History of Paternity Testing?
Oct 27, 2023
How Do Pilots 'Make Up' Time During Flights?
Oct 26, 2023
Why Do Some People Hate Sounds Like Chewing?
Oct 25, 2023
What Is Chernobyl's Elephant's Foot Made Of?
Oct 24, 2023
How Do Alligator Gar Work?
Oct 23, 2023
BrainStuff Classics: Could You Legally Bury Someone in Your Backyard?
Oct 03, 2023
BrainStuff Classics: Why Doesn't Airline Food Taste Good?
Oct 02, 2023
Why Are American School Buses Yellow?
Oct 01, 2023
How Do Megamasers Work?
Sep 30, 2023
How Long Could You Hang Upside Down Safely?
Sep 29, 2023
Who Was the Humboldt Current Named After?
Sep 28, 2023
How Does the Portuguese Man-of-War Work?
Sep 27, 2023
What Causes 'New Baby Smell'?
Sep 05, 2023
Where Was Babylon, and How Did It Fall?
Sep 04, 2023
BrainStuff Classics: Is There a Best Way to Load the Dishwasher?
Sep 03, 2023
BrainStuff Classics: Do Carrots Really Help Your Eyesight?
Sep 02, 2023
Why Do Beached Whales Explode Sometimes?
Sep 01, 2023
Was Humpty Dumpty Always an Egg?
Aug 31, 2023
How Do Peregrine Falcons Work?
Aug 30, 2023
BrainStuff Classics: Are Any Superstitions Universal?
Aug 20, 2023
BrainStuff Classics: Why Are Dogs’ Noses Wet?
Aug 19, 2023
Why Does Yoga Make People Emotional?
Aug 18, 2023
Is Microwave Popcorn Dangerous?
Aug 17, 2023
How Are Sharks Born?
Aug 16, 2023
Why Do We Say 'Close, But No Cigar'?
Aug 15, 2023
BrainStuff Classics: Can Used Books Spread Germs?
Aug 06, 2023
BrainStuff Classics: Would Psychic Powers Really Cause Nosebleeds?
Aug 05, 2023
How Can You Tell Ravens and Crows Apart?
Aug 03, 2023
Where Do Royalty's Nannies Get Their Training?
Aug 02, 2023
How Common Is Male Breast Cancer?
Aug 01, 2023
Where Did the 'Don't Tread on Me' Flag Come From?
Jul 31, 2023
How Does Rhodium Work?
Jul 28, 2023
BrainStuff Classics: Were Unicorns Always Sweet?
Jul 23, 2023
Introducing: On the Job, Episode 8
Jul 22, 2023
How Could an Underwater Highway Help Save Sea Turtles?
Jul 21, 2023
Why Are Ice Pops Called Quiescently Frozen Confections?
Jul 20, 2023
How Do Toucans Work?
Jul 19, 2023
Why Is Sweet and Salty Such a Tasty Combo?
Jul 18, 2023
How Does Morse Code Work?
Jul 17, 2023
Introducing: On the Job, Episode 7
Jul 15, 2023
How Can Some People Brew Alcohol in Their Guts?
Jul 15, 2023
How Do Oysters Make Pearls?
Jul 10, 2023
BrainStuff Classics: How Did a Family Fued Spawn Adidas and Puma?
Jul 09, 2023
Introducing: On the Job, Episode 6
Jul 08, 2023
How Much Dirt Do We Eat in a Year?
Jul 07, 2023
How Do Coast Guard Rescue Swimmers Work?
Jul 04, 2023
Why Do Antidepressants Have Warning Labels About Suicidal Thoughts?
Jul 03, 2023
BrainStuff Classics: What Are Sea Cucumbers?
Jul 02, 2023
Introducing: On the Job, Episode 5
Jul 01, 2023
Why Are Fungi Such Great Decomposers?
Jun 30, 2023
How Does the Hollywood Sign Work?
Jun 28, 2023
How Does Non-Alcoholic Beer Work?
Jun 14, 2023
How Does Amazon Deliver Stuff So Fast?
Jun 13, 2023
What Are the Most Common Birthdays?
Jun 12, 2023
BrainStuff Classics: Could We Build A Real Gundam?
Jun 11, 2023
How Did Al Capone's Mobsters Start a Milk War?
Jun 10, 2023
Did Tyrannosaurus Rex Have Lips?
Jun 09, 2023
How Do Wolf Packs Work?
May 31, 2023
How Does Einsteinium Work?
May 30, 2023
BrainStuff Classics: How Effective Are Bulletproof Vests?
May 28, 2023
Introducing: On the Job, Episode 4
May 27, 2023
How Was an American Mercenary Briefly President of Nicaragua?
May 26, 2023
Why Do We Call It a 'Piggyback Ride'?
May 25, 2023
BrainStuff Classics: Why Did People Once Rob Graves for Science?
May 21, 2023
Introducing: On the Job, Episode 3
May 20, 2023
How Did Utahraptor Work?
May 19, 2023
Who Is the Legendary Green Man?
May 17, 2023
How Did Cleopatra Work?
May 15, 2023
Introducing: On the Job, Episode 2
May 13, 2023
BrainStuff Classics: Why Did Fruit Evolve in Different Colors?
May 12, 2023
How Did Art Help Spin the Civil War?
May 09, 2023
What Can Cause a Late or Missed Period?
May 08, 2023
Why Don't All Cans Have Pull-Tabs?
May 07, 2023
Introducing: On the Job, Season 7
May 06, 2023
Why Is AAPI Heritage Month Celebrated in May?
May 05, 2023
Can Parasitic Worms Control Snails' Minds?
May 02, 2023
BrainStuff Classics: What Was the First Computer?
Apr 30, 2023
BrainStuff Classics: Why Is Elephants' Skin So Wrinkly?
Apr 29, 2023
What's the World's Skinniest Skyscraper?
Apr 28, 2023
How Did Hazardous Nuclear Testing Help Science?
Apr 27, 2023
Why Does Your Stomach Growl?
Apr 26, 2023
Why Do Some People Believe Conspiracy Theories?
Apr 25, 2023
What's the History of License Plates?
Apr 24, 2023
How Can Glass on the Moon Contain Water?
Apr 17, 2023
BrainStuff Classics: How Can Sunlight Make You Sneeze?
Apr 16, 2023
How Did Hedy Lamarr Change Communications Technology?
Apr 15, 2023
How Do Maraschino Cherries Work?
Apr 14, 2023
Why Are Fingerprints (Almost) Unique?
Apr 13, 2023
What's the Legacy of African American Spirituals?
Apr 12, 2023
BrainStuff Classics: Why Can't You Reach the End of a Rainbow?
Apr 09, 2023
How Does the Martini Glass Work?
Apr 08, 2023
What's Happening When You Get the Wind Knocked Out of You?
Apr 07, 2023
Are There Alien Asteroids in Our Midst?
Apr 06, 2023
How Did the Radium Girls Change Workers' Rights?
Apr 05, 2023
BrainStuff Classics: Is Coconut Oil a 'Superfood' or 'Pure Poison'?
Apr 02, 2023
How Does Historical Cryptology Work?
Apr 01, 2023
Why Do We Turn Down the Radio When We're Lost?
Mar 31, 2023
Introducing: Inner Cosmos with David Eagleman
Mar 30, 2023
How Did Trepanation Work?
Mar 30, 2023
Are Hammerhead Worms Really Dangerous?
Mar 29, 2023
How Did Some Enslaved People Sue for Their Freedom — and Win?
Mar 28, 2023
Why Do Wine Bottles Have Dents in the Bottom?
Mar 09, 2023
How Will the Oxford Dictionary of African American English Work?
Mar 08, 2023
Who's the Inventor Behind Tang, Pop Rocks, and Cool Whip?
Mar 07, 2023
BrainStuff Classics: Could a Giant Squid Take Down a Submarine?
Mar 06, 2023
BrainStuff Classics: How Do Our Bones Grow?
Mar 05, 2023
Why Is the French Baguette Being Honored?
Mar 04, 2023
When Were Dogs Used as Kitchen Appliances?
Mar 03, 2023
Why Is It Quiet After It Snows?
Mar 02, 2023
How Did Black Inventors Change America?
Mar 01, 2023
BrainStuff Classics: What's the Difference Between Weather and Climate?
Feb 05, 2023
How Do Cassowaries Work?
Feb 03, 2023
What Causes the Pain of Kidney Stones?
Feb 02, 2023
How Deep Is the Ocean?
Feb 01, 2023
How Does Shrinkflation Work?
Jan 23, 2023
BrainStuff Classics: How Do Southern Biscuits Work?
Jan 22, 2023
What Are the Differences Between Mold and Mildew?
Jan 21, 2023
Is January the Biggest Month for Divorce?
Jan 20, 2023
How Do Disposable Hand Warmers Work?
Jan 19, 2023
Do Fish Sleep?
Jan 18, 2023
BrainStuff Classics: Does Milk Really Make Mucus Worse?
Dec 27, 2022
BrainStuff Classics: How Does Kwanzaa Work?
Dec 26, 2022
How Did the Eggnog Riot Work?
Dec 25, 2022
What Does It Cost to Run Santa's Workshop?
Dec 24, 2022
Why Are Different Injections Given in Your Arm, Rear, or Elsewhere?
Dec 23, 2022
Why Do Small Dogs Live Longer Than Large Dogs?
Dec 22, 2022
How Do Latkes Work?
Dec 22, 2022
BrainStuff Classics: Could Recycled Urine Make Sustainable Fertilizer?
Dec 18, 2022
Will Cats Sit In Imaginary Boxes?
Dec 17, 2022
How Does Mistletoe Work?
Dec 16, 2022
How Do Ticks Cause Meat Allergies?
Dec 15, 2022
Why Do Scientists Want You to Say 'UAPs', not 'UFOs'?
Dec 15, 2022
BrainStuff Classics: Why Do We Get Hiccups?
Dec 11, 2022
Is Every Snowflake Really Unique?
Dec 10, 2022
Why Does Rudolph's Nose Glow Red?
Dec 09, 2022
How Could Temporary Tattoos Revolutionize Blood Pressure Monitoring?
Dec 08, 2022
How Does the Artemis I Mission Work?
Dec 07, 2022
BrainStuff Classics: What Happens to Balloons When You Release Them?
Nov 27, 2022
BrainStuff Classics: Can Side Sleeping Help Prevent Snoring?
Nov 26, 2022
How Does Checkout Charity Work?
Nov 25, 2022
Why Do U.S. Presidents Pardon Turkeys for Thanksgiving?
Nov 24, 2022
How Do Pop-Up Wetlands Work?
Nov 23, 2022
Reign of Terror: The Story of the Osage Murders
Nov 22, 2022
How Do Eels Reproduce?
Nov 21, 2022
What's the Oldest Tree in the World?
Nov 14, 2022
BrainStuff Classics: How Do Homeless Americans Vote?
Nov 13, 2022
BrainStuff Classics: What Was The Great Pox?
Nov 12, 2022
How Do Seahorses Work?
Nov 11, 2022
Can the President Control Gasoline Prices?
Nov 10, 2022
Can You Get Pregnant During Your Period?
Nov 09, 2022
Do Political TV Ads Really Change Voters' Minds?
Nov 08, 2022
Why Are Graveyards Scary?
Oct 31, 2022
Why Does It Feel So Good To Be Scared?
Oct 30, 2022
How Does the Monstrous Lamia Work?
Oct 29, 2022
Can You Sleep With Your Eyes Open?
Oct 25, 2022
How Did Prehistoric Animals Get So Big?
Oct 24, 2022
BrainStuff Classics: What Is Nuclear Pasta?
Oct 23, 2022
Why Are Caskets So Expensive?
Oct 22, 2022
Why Do Leaves Change Color in the Fall?
Oct 21, 2022
What's the Difference Between Redistricting and Gerrymandering?
Oct 20, 2022
Why Do So Many Animals Have Snot?
Oct 03, 2022
BrainStuff Classics: Could Jupiter Have Water After All?
Oct 02, 2022
BrainStuff Classics: What Would Happen If You Wrecked a Car on a Test-Drive?
Oct 01, 2022
Who Really Profited from the Gold Rush?
Sep 30, 2022
What's the Coldest Place On Earth?
Sep 29, 2022
What Causes Nightmares, and How Can You Prevent Them?
Sep 28, 2022
How Could Blue Denim Be Greener?
Sep 27, 2022
How Do Hognose Snakes Play Dead?
Sep 26, 2022
Should You Worry About Nitrates in Your Food?
Sep 22, 2022
What Artefacts Has This Summer's Drought Uncovered?
Sep 21, 2022
How Did Queen Elizabeth II Fall in Love with Corgis?
Sep 20, 2022
What Does Your Pinky Toe Actually Do?
Sep 14, 2022
How Do Muskrats Work?
Sep 13, 2022
How Could Saudi Arabia's Futuristic City 'The Line' Work?
Sep 12, 2022
BrainStuff Classics: What Is Breakup Bootcamp?
Sep 11, 2022
BrainStuff Classics: What Are Food Deserts?
Sep 10, 2022
How Did a Conman Sell the Brooklyn Bridge -- Over and Over?
Sep 09, 2022
How Does Gallium Work?
Sep 08, 2022
Why Do Animals Sploot?
Sep 07, 2022
How Does Doomscrolling Work?
Sep 06, 2022
How Did Vikings' Gut Worms Create Today's Lung Disease?
Sep 06, 2022
BrainStuff Classics: Who Is The Laughing Buddha?
Sep 04, 2022
BrainStuff Classics: Why Is Alzheimers's So Difficult to Treat?
Sep 03, 2022
How Can Turning Lights Off Save Birds?
Sep 02, 2022
How Do Kangaroos' Pouches Work?
Sep 01, 2022
How Does Ectopic Pregnancy Work?
Aug 31, 2022
Why Does the Fed Change the Interest Rate?
Aug 30, 2022
BrainStuff Classics: How Do Migrating Birds Navigate?
Aug 28, 2022
What Size Lottery Jackpot Makes People Play?
Aug 27, 2022
How Does Monkeypox Work?
Aug 26, 2022
Project Acoustic Kitty: How Did the CIA Make a Cat a Spy?
Aug 25, 2022
How Do Robot Umpires Work?
Aug 24, 2022
Why Are Giant Land Snails Invading Florida Again?
Aug 15, 2022
BrainStuff Classics: Are Artists Hardwired To Be Poor?
Aug 14, 2022
BrainStuff Classics: Why Are Hydrogen Peroxide Bottles Brown?
Aug 13, 2022
Why Do Female Songbirds Sing?
Aug 12, 2022
How Did a Grudge Match Between States Create the U.S. Constitution?
Aug 11, 2022
How Does the Zoo Hypothesis Work?
Aug 10, 2022
How Do Cooling Fabrics Work?
Aug 09, 2022
How Does Lyme Disease Work?
Aug 08, 2022
BrainStuff Classics: How Does Anxiety Cause Underarm Sweat?
Jul 30, 2022
What Does Space Smell Like?
Jul 29, 2022
How Were Pregnancy Tests Invented?
Jul 28, 2022
What Colors Can Dogs See?
Jul 27, 2022
How Could Smart Traffic Lights Work?
Jul 26, 2022
Why Do Watermelons Explode Sometimes?
Jul 25, 2022
How Do Insect Hotels Work?
Jul 11, 2022
BrainStuff Classics: Can Your Face's Temperature Reveal Your Mood?
Jul 10, 2022
How Does Human Conception Work?
Jul 09, 2022
What Would Happen If Yellowstone's Supervolcano Erupted?
Jul 08, 2022
How Did Roe v Wade Work?
Jul 07, 2022
BrainStuff Classics: Why Are Mass Shootings Happening in U.S. Schools?
Jul 02, 2022
How Has Grandma Gatewood Inspired Generations of Hikers?
Jul 01, 2022
Should You Turn the Air Conditioner Off While You're Out?
Jun 30, 2022
What Did People Feed Babies Before Formula?
Jun 29, 2022
How Did the Mona Lisa Get So Popular?
Jun 28, 2022
How Do Magpies Work?
Jun 28, 2022
BrainStuff Classics: Are Wine Glasses Getting Bigger?
Jun 25, 2022
Why Does Your Cat Lick You?
Jun 24, 2022
How Do Heat Officers Work?
Jun 23, 2022
How Were Common Currency Symbols Invented?
Jun 22, 2022
How Does Prehab Work?
Jun 21, 2022
How Do U.S. Gun Background Checks Work?
Jun 20, 2022
BrainStuff Classics: Why Do Dogs Love Rolling in Stinky Stuff?
Jun 11, 2022
How Do the Santa Ana Winds Work?
Jun 10, 2022
How Old Are Alligators?
Jun 09, 2022
How Are Airplane Cabins Pressurized?
Jun 08, 2022
BrainStuff Classics: Why Does Skin Tan and Freckle?
May 22, 2022
How Do Echidnas Work?
May 21, 2022
What Can You Do When You Run Out of Baby Formula?
May 20, 2022
How Do Bidets Work?
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Dec 01, 2021
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Nov 30, 2021
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Nov 26, 2021
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Nov 25, 2021
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Nov 23, 2021
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Nov 22, 2021
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Nov 21, 2021
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Nov 19, 2021
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Oct 22, 2021
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Oct 21, 2021
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Oct 20, 2021
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Sep 30, 2021
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Sep 23, 2021
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Sep 22, 2021
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Sep 21, 2021
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Sep 16, 2021
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Sep 15, 2021
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Sep 14, 2021
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Sep 11, 2021
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Sep 03, 2021
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Sep 02, 2021
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Sep 01, 2021
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Aug 31, 2021
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Aug 30, 2021
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Aug 29, 2021
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Aug 28, 2021
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Aug 27, 2021
Why Are Noncompete Agreements So Common?
Aug 26, 2021
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Aug 24, 2021
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Aug 22, 2021
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Aug 21, 2021
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Aug 20, 2021
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Aug 19, 2021
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Aug 18, 2021
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Aug 17, 2021
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Aug 12, 2021
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Aug 03, 2021
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Jul 31, 2021
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Jul 30, 2021
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Jul 29, 2021
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Jul 28, 2021
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Jul 27, 2021
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Jul 25, 2021
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Jul 24, 2021
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Jul 23, 2021
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Jul 22, 2021
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Jul 21, 2021
How Did Earth Gain a New Ocean?
Jul 20, 2021
How Bad Is America's Infrastructure?
Jul 19, 2021
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Jul 18, 2021
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Jul 17, 2021
Are Bug Zappers a Bad Idea?
Jul 16, 2021
Will Sharks Die If They Stop Moving?
Jul 15, 2021
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Jul 14, 2021
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Jul 13, 2021
Is Paul Bunyan Based on a Real Person?
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Jul 11, 2021
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Jul 09, 2021
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Jul 08, 2021
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Jul 07, 2021
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Jul 06, 2021
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Jul 05, 2021
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Jul 02, 2021
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Jul 01, 2021
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Jun 30, 2021
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Jun 29, 2021
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Jun 28, 2021
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Jun 27, 2021
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Jun 26, 2021
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Jun 25, 2021
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Jun 24, 2021
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Jun 23, 2021
Why Did England and Spain Go to War Over an Ear?
Jun 22, 2021
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Jun 21, 2021
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Jun 20, 2021
BrainStuff Classics: How Did Juneteenth Get Started?
Jun 19, 2021
Is Vaccine Hesitancy a New Phenomenon?
Jun 18, 2021
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Jun 17, 2021
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Jun 16, 2021
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Jun 15, 2021
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Jun 14, 2021
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Jun 13, 2021
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Jun 12, 2021
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Jun 11, 2021
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Jun 10, 2021
Are Pentagon-Confirmed UFOs a Threat to National Security?
Jun 09, 2021
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Jun 08, 2021
Have the Olympic Games Ever Been Canceled?
Jun 07, 2021
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Jun 06, 2021
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Jun 05, 2021
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Jun 04, 2021
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Jun 03, 2021
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Jun 02, 2021
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Jun 01, 2021
Should You Wear White Clothes to Stay Cool?
May 31, 2021
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May 30, 2021
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May 29, 2021
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May 28, 2021
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May 27, 2021
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May 26, 2021
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May 25, 2021
Can You Make Weedkillers at Home?
May 24, 2021
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May 23, 2021
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May 22, 2021
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May 21, 2021
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May 20, 2021
Do We Really Swallow Spiders in Our Sleep?
May 19, 2021
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May 18, 2021
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May 17, 2021
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May 16, 2021
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May 15, 2021
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May 14, 2021
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May 13, 2021
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May 12, 2021
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May 11, 2021
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May 10, 2021
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May 09, 2021
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May 08, 2021
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May 07, 2021
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May 06, 2021
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May 05, 2021
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May 04, 2021
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May 03, 2021
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May 02, 2021
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May 01, 2021
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Apr 30, 2021
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Apr 29, 2021
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Apr 28, 2021
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Apr 27, 2021
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Apr 25, 2021
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Apr 24, 2021
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Apr 23, 2021
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Apr 22, 2021
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Apr 21, 2021
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Apr 20, 2021
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Apr 16, 2021
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Apr 14, 2021
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Apr 09, 2021
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Apr 08, 2021
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Apr 07, 2021
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Apr 06, 2021
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Apr 04, 2021
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Apr 03, 2021
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Apr 02, 2021
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Apr 01, 2021
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Mar 31, 2021
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Mar 30, 2021
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Mar 29, 2021
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Mar 28, 2021
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Mar 27, 2021
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Mar 26, 2021
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Mar 25, 2021
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Mar 24, 2021
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Mar 23, 2021
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Mar 22, 2021
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Mar 21, 2021
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Mar 20, 2021
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Mar 19, 2021
The Firm vs. the Family: How Does the British Monarchy Work?
Mar 18, 2021
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Mar 17, 2021
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Mar 16, 2021
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Mar 15, 2021
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Mar 14, 2021
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Mar 13, 2021
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Mar 12, 2021
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Mar 11, 2021
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Mar 10, 2021
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Mar 09, 2021
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Mar 08, 2021
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Mar 07, 2021
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Mar 06, 2021
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Feb 25, 2021
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Feb 24, 2021
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Feb 23, 2021
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Feb 22, 2021
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Feb 21, 2021
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Feb 20, 2021
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Feb 14, 2021
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Feb 11, 2021
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