Santi Furnari (CASBS fellow, 2023-24) engages renowned political sociologist & 2015-16 fellow Elisabeth Clemens on the role of private civic volunteer organizations in co-constructing national identity and state capacity as well as serving as tools of governance, solidarity, and inclusion for much of American history. In what form does civic benevolence and philanthropy operate in the contemporary landscape? This absorbing conversation draws inspiration from the multi-award-winning book "Civic Gifts," much of which Clemens wrote during her CASBS year.

ELISABETH CLEMENS: Univ. of Chicago faculty page | Clemens wins 2023 Gordon J. Laing Award | on Wikipedia |

The book is Civic Gifts: Voluntarism and the Making of the American Nation-State (Univ. of Chicago Press), winner of the Barrington Moore Book Award, Comparative and Historical Sociology section, American Sociological Association;  the University of Chicago Press Gordon J. Laing Award; the Outstanding Published Book Award, ASA Section on Altruism, Morality, and Social Solidarity; and the Peter Dobkin Hall History of Philanthropy Prize, Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA).

SANTI FURNARI: CASBS page |  City University of London, Bayes School of Business faculty page | on Google Scholar |

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Legendary tech journalist John Markoff (CASBS fellow, 2017-18) chats with 2023-24 CASBS fellow Young Mie Kim on her groundbreaking efforts to identify how shadowy groups use algorithms and targeted disinformation campaigns during presidential election cycles; measure their real-world distorting effects on voter mobilization or suppression; and illuminate our understanding of resulting political inequalities and their implications for American democracy.

YOUNG MIE KIM: CASBS bio |  Univ. of Wisconsin faculty page |  "The Disinformation Detective" (On Wisconsin magazine) |

Kim leads Project DATA (Digital Ad Tracking & Analysis) at UW. | Project DATA on X |

Kim is lead author of the article "The Stealth Media? Groups and Targets Behind Divisive Issue Campaigns on Facebook," Political Communication, v35 n4 (2018). The article won the Kaid-Sanders Award for the Best Political Communication Article of the Year by the International Communication Association.

Coverage of findings: The New York Times here and here | Wired |  

Kim's testimony delivered to the Federal Election Commission | 

Kim is a founding member of the International Panel on the Information Environment. Coverage of IPIE in The New York Times |

Kim among the authors of "The effects of Facebook and Instagram on the 2020 election: A deactivation experiment," Proceedings of the National Academies of Science, v121 n2 (2024) |

Kim a coauthor of several articles appearing in a special issue of Science on Social Media and Elections (2023) |

At the beginning of the episode, Kim discusses the influence of Phil Converse. Converse was a CASBS fellow in 1979-80 and later served as CASBS director (1989-94). Learn more about Converse's work.

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Dan Simon, a 2022-23 CASBS fellow and USC law professor, joins in conversation with Elizabeth Loftus, a 1978-79 CASBS fellow and Distinguished Professor at UC Irvine. Loftus is known in the public sphere through her decades-long study of memory – specifically, its malleability and fallibility – as well as her application of findings as an expert witness or consultant in hundreds of legal cases. Loftus's book "Eyewitness Testimony," completed at the Center, charted the course of her career that followed and serves as this episode's launching point.

ELIZABETH LOFTUS

UC Irvine faculty page
Wikipedia page
TED Talk (2013), "How reliable is your memory?"
Nobel Prize Summit (2023), "The misinformation effect"
The New Yorker (2021), "How Elizabeth Loftus Changed the Meaning of Memory"
 

DAN SIMON

USC Gould School of Law faculty page
CASBS bio
"In Doubt: The Psychology of the Criminal Justice Process" (Harvard Univ. Press, 2012)


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While you're listening to this episode, 2016-17 CASBS fellow Jonathan Jansen likely will write another few thousand words. As a scholar of education & leader of education institutions, Jansen is South Africa's most towering figure. To call him prolific is a gross understatement. He writes a steady stream of books & more books. As a public intellectual he writes a separate steady stream of columns & essays. And he's written a family memoir too. We bring 2022-23 CASBS fellow Zimitri Erasmus, a social anthropologist who is working on a book on writing praxis, in conversation with Jansen to unlock some secrets & insights into his most powerful & liberating weapon for engaging the world – writing.

JONATHAN JANSEN
on Google Scholar
Jansen website

Mentioned in the episode
Corrupted: A Study of Chronic Dysfunction in South African Universities (2023)
Song for Sarah: Lessons from my Mother (2017)

Jansen and CASBS
"Loving and Blacking" (symposium, 2017)
"Higher Ed at the Crossroads" (webcast, 2020)

ZIMITRI ERASMUS
CASBS page
on Google Scholar
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What are the most effective collective actions that social protest movements can or should undertake in the context of deep societal conflict and polarization? CASBS fellows Eran Halperin (2022-23) & Robb Willer (2012-13, 2020-21) compare their cross-national research findings and explore Halperin's real-time applied work with the dramatic, ongoing protests in Israel.

ERAN HALPERIN links:

Psychology of Intergroup Conflict and Reconciliation Lab (PCIL)

Halperin on Google Scholar

aChord: Social Psychology for Social Change


ROBB WILLER links:

Willer's Stanford faculty page

Willer's personal web page

Polarization and Social Change Lab

Willer on Google Scholar

Article in JPSP, "The Activist's Dilemma" (2020)



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Drawing upon a career of scholarship extending from studies of labor, citizenship, and the state in Africa to explorations of global empire, colonialism, and globalization, three-time CASBS fellow Frederick Cooper – in conversation with 2022-23 fellows Jean Beaman and Martin Williams – gives a master class on how critical and relational thinking serve historical inquiries that advance our understandings. 

Frederick Cooper, CASBS fellow 1990-91, 1995-96, 2002-03
NYU faculty page
Wikipedia page
 

Fred Cooper books

Citizenship, Inequality, and Difference: Historical Perspectives (2018)

Citizenship Between Empire and Nation: Remaking France and French Africa, 1945-1960 (2014)

Empires in World History: Power and the Politics of Difference (2010)

Cooper Books in CASBS's Ralph W. Tyler Collection:
Colonialism in Question: Theory, Knowledge, History (2005)

Decolonization and African Society: The Labor Question in French and British Africa (1996)

Confronting Historical Paradigms: Peasants, Labor, and the Capitalist World System in Africa and Latin America (1993)

Fred Cooper article referenced in the episode

"What is the Concept of Globalization Good for? An African Historian's Perspective" (2001)

Jean Beaman faculty page

Martin Williams faculty page

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This episode is  produced in association with the CASBS project "The Social Science of Caregiving," and draws further inspiration from the CASBS project "Imagining Adaptive Societies." Learn more about both:
https://casbs.stanford.edu/programs/projects/social-science-caregiving
https://casbs.stanford.edu/programs/projects/imagining-adaptive-societies

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Ted Chiang on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Chiang

Ted Chiang in The New Yorker
"Why Computers Won't Make Themselves Smarter"  https://www.newyorker.com/culture/annals-of-inquiry/why-computers-wont-make-themselves-smarter
"ChatGPT is a Blurry JPEG of the Web" https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/chatgpt-is-a-blurry-jpeg-of-the-web
"Will A.I. Become the New McKinsey?" https://www.newyorker.com/science/annals-of-artificial-intelligence/will-ai-become-the-new-mckinsey
"Ted Chiang's Soulful Science Fiction"  https://www.newyorker.com/culture/persons-of-interest/ted-chiangs-soulful-science-fiction

Explore the work of Alison Gopnik
http://alisongopnik.com/
http://www.gopniklab.berkeley.edu/alison
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alison_Gopnik
https://www.ted.com/talks/alison_gopnik_what_do_babies_think
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/16/podcasts/ezra-klein-podcast-alison-gopnik-transcript.html

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This is a podcast version of a live CASBS webcast event. View video of the event here.

The event was produced in association with CASBS's program on Creating a New Moral Political Economy. Learn about the program here.

CASBS's moral political economy program guest-curated the Winter 2023 issue of Dædalus, a publication of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. The entire issue is open access here. Panelist John Ahlquist's essay in the issue provided impetus for the organization of the event this podcast episode draws from.

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Glenn Loury on Google Scholar

Coate & Loury (1993), "Will Affirmative-Action Policies Eliminate Negative Stereotypes?"

Loury, The Anatomy of Racial Inequality (The Du Bois Lectures)

The Tanner Lectures at Stanford (2007) Lecture 1 | Lecture 2

Loury (2008), Race, Incarceration, and American Values

Loury (2019), "Why Does Racial Inequality Persist?"

Somanathan and Allen, eds. (2020) Difference without Domination: Pursuing Justice in Diverse Democracies

Loury public symposium at CASBS (2016), "Racial Inequality in 21st Century America" (video)

CASBS webcast (2020), "The Persistence of Racial Inequality" (video); panel featuring Glenn Loury, Joshua Cohen, Francis Fukuyama, Alondra Nelso, & Margaret Levi

The Glenn Show (YouTube)

The Glenn Show (Manhattan Institute)

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Robert Keohane bios: CASBS | Princeton | Wikipedia

Comparative Politics of Climate Change Policy workshops at CASBS

Complex interdependence

After Hegemony: Cooperation and Discord in the World Political Economy

2016 Balzan Prize | prize speech

Designing Social Inquiry: Scientific Inference in Qualitative Research

Johan Skytte Prize

Keohane & Ostrom, Local Commons and Global Interdependence

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Emerging Trends in The Social and Behavioral Sciences

Bob’s Introduction to the project

About the Robert A. Scott Lectureship Fund

The classic mud volleyball photo (click then scroll to the bottom of the article)

Human Centered episode featuring Richard Wrangham

CASBS in the History of Behavioral Economics

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Causal Inference for Social Impact Lab

EGAP

Jake Bowers

Carrie S. Cihak

Dan Hopkins

Ruth Levine

Piyush Tantia

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Stefan Link, a 2023-24 CASBS fellow, chats with Barry Eichengreen, a 1996-97 CASBS fellow and world renowned for his expertise at the nexus of international economics and economic history. They discuss some of Eichengreen's most prominent works — including "The European Economy Since 1945," which emerged from his CASBS experience, and "Golden Fetters," his most cited book — interrogating their durability and applicability to contemporary industrial, financial, and monetary policy challenges and governance.

BARRY EICHENGREEN: UC Berkeley faculty page | Homepage & CV | on Wikipedia | 

STEFAN LINK: CASBS bio | Dartmouth faculty page | 

Mentioned in the episode:

Eichengreen's talk on "Steering Structural Change" (session 2) at the Peterson Institute for International Economics (16 April 2024)

Eichengreen & Temin NBER paper on "The Gold Standard and the Great Depression" (June 1997)


Select Eichengreen books

Elusive Stability: Essays in the History of International Finance 1919-1939 (Cambridge Univ. Press, 1990)
Golden Fetters: The Gold Standard and the Great Depression 1919-1939 (Oxford Univ. Press, 1992)
International Monetary Arrangements for the 21st Century (Brookings Institution, 1994)
Globalizing Capital: A History of the International Monetary System (Princeton Univ. Press, 1994)
European Monetary Unification: Theory, Practice, and Analysis (MIT Press, 1997)
Toward a New International Financial Architecture: A Practical Post-Asia Agenda (Peterson Institute for International Economics, 1999)
Financial Crises and What to Do About Them (Oxford Univ. Press, 2002)
Capital Flows and Crises (MIT Press, 2004)
Global Imbalances and the Lessons of Bretton Woods (MIT Press, 2006)
The European Economy Since 1945: Coordinated Capitalism and Beyond (Princeton Univ. Press, 2006)
Exorbitant Privilege: The Rise and Fall of the Dollar and the Future of the International Monetary System (Oxford Univ. Press, 2012)
Hall of Mirrors: The Great Depression, the Great Recession, and the Uses — and Misuses — of History (Oxford Univ. Press, 2015)
 

Stefan Link book

Forging Global Fordism: Nazi Germany, Soviet Russia, and the Contest over the Industrial Order  (Princeton Univ. Press, 2020)
Winner of the Stuart L. Bernath Book Prize, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, as well as the Herbert Baxter Adams Prize, American Historical Association

 

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Moderator Debra Satz

Panelists

Elizabeth Anderson University of Michigan

Samuel Bowles Santa Fe Institute

Nobel laureate Sir Angus Deaton Princeton

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Sid Tarrow

"Movements and Parties: Critical Connections in American Political Development" - Cambridge University Press

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"Gen Z Explained: The Art of Living in a Digital Age"

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dana boyd

Henry Farrell

Marion Fourcade

William Janeway

Charlton McIlwain

Zeynep Tufekci

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"The Moral Economy of High Tech Modernism"

"Making Space for Black Software"

"Learning Like a State: Statecraft in the Digital Age"

"Isomorphism through algorithms: Institutional dependencies in the case of Facebook"

"The Ecology of Innovation"

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Allison Stanger

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From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds

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Labor historian & 2023-24 CASBS fellow Gabriel Winant in conversation with 2018-19 CASBS fellow Ruth Milkman, among the nation's most renowned sociologists of labor. In addition to interrogating divisions within and segmentation across labor markets in recent decades, Milkman also has remained attuned to the complexity of the overall working class experience, essential for illuminating ways in which workers can unite and organize.

RUTH MILKMAN: CUNY faculty page | personal website | ASA bio |

Milkman's book Immigrant Labor and the New Precariat (2020) | Polity Press Q&A |

GABRIEL WINANT: CASBS bio | Univ. of Chicago faculty page |  faculty Q&A |

Winant's book The Next Shift: The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Health Care in Rust Belt America (2022)

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American Voices Project crisis reports

Our Towns

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Hazel Markus

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Peter Loewen

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Prerna Singh

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Alexis Madrigal

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“Welfare 5.0: Why We Need a Social Revolution and How to Make it Happen”

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Creating a New Moral Political Economy

Arun Majumdar

Eric Beinhocker

Genevieve Bell

Kim Stanley Robinson

Suggested Readings

“I am a carbon abolitionist”

“Making the Fed’s Money Printer Go Brrrr for the Planet”

“The 4th Industrial Revolution: Responsible & Secure AI”

“Touching the future: Stories of systems, serendipity and grace”

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Carolyn Merchant

Paula Findlen

"Science Turned Upside Down: Carolyn Merchant’s Vision of Nature, 40 Years Later"

"The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology, and the Scientific Revolution"

"The Anthropocene and The Humanities: From Climate Change to a New Age of Sustainability"

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Lawrence D. Bobo

Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Claude Steele

Margaret Levi

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Estelle Freedman

Panelists

Jennifer Freyd

Jennifer Gómez

Carolyn Warner

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Maryanne Wolf

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Jane Mansbridge

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Pulitzer Prize-winning tech journalist John Markoff chats with 2022-23 CASBS fellow Nathan Matias about often-overlooked public interest questions and concerns regarding the deployment of tech platform algorithms and AI models. Specifically, Matias is a player in filling the two-way knowledge gaps between civil society and tech firms with an eye on governance, safety, accountability, and advancing the science — including the social science — of human-algorithm behavior.
 

Nathan Matias: Cornell University faculty page | CASBS bio | Personal website |

Citizens & Technology Lab

Coalition for Independent Technology Research

Select Matias publications

"Humans and Algorithms Work Together — So Study Them Together" Nature (2023)

"Impact Assessment of Human-Algorithm Feedback Loops" Just Tech, SSRC (2022)

"The Tragedy of the Digital Commons" The Atlantic (2015)

"To Hold Tech Accountable, Look to Public Health" Wired (2023)

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Danielle Allen

Shaylyn Romney Garrett

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David Brooks

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Sandra González-Bailón

A great thread on her recent paper “Exposure to News Grows Less Fragmented with an Increase in Mobile Access”

“Bots are Less Central than Verified Accounts during Contentious Political Events”

Her book Decoding the Social World

Facebook 2020 Election Research portal

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Nina Bandelj

Jonathan David Jansen

Caitlin Zaloom

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Debra Satz

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Panelists:

Shona Brown

Colin Mayer

Margaret O’Mara

Moderator:

Paul Brest

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Mario Biagioli's UCLA Profile

Mario's article in the Los Angeles Review of Books, "Fraud by Numbers: Metrics and the New Academic Midconduct"

Mario’s book “Gaming The Metrics: Misconduct and Manipulation in Academic Research”

2019-20 CASBS fellow Brian Arthur’s paper “All Systems Will Be Gamed: Exploitative Behavior in Economic and Social Systems”

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Race and the Movement for Justice in America

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Social Science for a World in Crisis

CASBS director Margaret Levi, co-editor of the Annual Review of Political Science, recently curated discussions with Christian Davenport and Rachel Kleinfeld that explore findings in articles they published in the Review.

The Long-Term Consequences of Street Clashes

"Privilege Violence", or How Governments Use Violence to Maintain Inequality

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Their paper in the Harvard Journal on Legislation "Twentieth-Century America as a Developing Country: Conflict, Institutions, and The Evolution of Public Law"

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Notable events mentioned in this episode:

The West Virginia Coal Wars

The National Labor Relations Act

The Taft-Hartley Act

Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer

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Recorded before a live audience, Margaret Levi, Alison Gopnik, & Anne-Marie Slaughter discuss a CASBS project, "The Social Science of Caregiving," which is reimagining the philosophical, psychological, biological, political, & economic foundations of care and caregiving. The goal is a coherent empirical and theoretical account or synthesis of care that advances understandings and policy discussions. [The episode notes provide links for further exploration.]

Article on CASBS's project on The Social Science of Caregiving

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Related: Human Centered episode #61, "Developing AI Like Raising Kids" (Alison Gopnik & Ted Chiang)

Alison Gopnik: CASBS bio | UC Berkeley Bio | 

Gopnik article, "Caregiving in Philosophy, Biology & Political Economy" (Dædalus)

Margaret Levi: CASBS bio | CASBS program on Creating a New Moral Political Economy | 

Anne-Marie Slaughter:  New America bio | 

Slaughter articles, "Care is a Relationship" (Dædalus) | "Why Women Still Can't Have it All" (The Atlantic)

Slaughter book, Unfinished Business (Penguin Random House)

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Jen Pan’s homepage

Her recent book “Welfare for Autocrats”
 

Big thanks to CASBS staff member Teresita Heiser for opening the episode for us!

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Alta Charo

She recommends checking out the documentary “Human Nature,” in which she appears.

Learn about CRISPR gene editing

Revive & Restore, the organization working on “genetic rescue” of endangered and extinct species.

The controversy over He Jiankui’s genetic modification of human embryos

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Jefferson Cowie

Jefferson’s recent New York Times Piece “The ‘Hard Hat Riot’ Was a Preview of Today’s Political Divisions”

The illuminating CASBS symposium “_Contesting the Nation_”, with Jefferson Cowie, Kathleen Belew, and Catherine Ramírez

Richard Rorty, CASBS fellow 1982-83 “Achieving Our Country”

Donald F. Kettl’s “The Divided States of America: Why Federalism Doesn’t Work”

Arlie Russell Hochschild’s “Stranger in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right”

Thomas Piketty’s “Capital in the 21st Century”

Special thanks to CASBS staff member Paola Dios for the opening the episode!

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Wendy K. Tam Cho's homepage

Familiarize yourself with Optimization Problems

"How to Quantify (and Fight) Gerrymandering” - Quanta Magazine

“Toward a Talismanic Redistricting Tool: A Computational Method for Identifying Extreme Redistricting Plans” - Wendy K. Tam Cho and Yan Y. Liu

Wendy’s reading recommendation “Deep Thinking” by Gary Kasparov"

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