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Hello.

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I packed an extra pair of socks.

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But stuff still happened.

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So what's up?

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A British museum worker did not quite get the memo.

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Several items have gone missing from the storerooms at the British Museum.

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This is surprising because normally stolen goods end up at the British Museum.

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But apparently this one worker didn't get the memo and has since been fired and now

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they're trying to recover the materials.

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It was nothing like super notable.

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It was like golden gems and stuff but nothing that was on display.

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They were just keeping it for academic and research purposes but they still want it back.

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They're putting together an independent security audit of their practices and they're

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going to make a strike force to try to get all this stuff back.

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I don't know.

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That's the whole story.

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Don't steal stuff.

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England?

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We're going to regrow teeth.

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You thought you had teeth but now you're going to have teeth.

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I'm a silly boy this morning.

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Researchers at the University of Washington School of Medicine have discovered a way to

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potentially regrow human teeth which is whack-a-doo.

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Using stem cells which are the cells that can become any other kind of cells they were

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able to actually convert those into a type of cell that secretes like tooth enamel.

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Notably those types of cells are not typically present in human adults.

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Once your teeth finish growing they go away so that your teeth don't just keep growing.

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But if you've got tooth problems then like you might want some of that good good enamel

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stuff.

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And so grad student Ammar Al-Gadir published a paper saying hey yo this is a good first

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step.

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Like I said earlier this is not like this is not happening tomorrow.

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It was like a proof of concept that they were able to take the stem cell and like make it

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into this other cell.

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Like they didn't know if they could do that at first and they did.

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This is not a new treatment that you can get right now.

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But in the world of dentistry this could be a pretty cool step towards a new future where

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it's just like oh you got bad teeth?

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We'll make up better now.

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And with all of that out of the way I'm going to talk to you now about pangolins.

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This is a pangolin appreciation space.

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So pangolins they're like a mixture between an armadillo and an anteater and they've

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got cool cool scales and they're good rolly boys.

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But they're also endangered because they are prime targets for poaching and trafficking.

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However a little known global pandemic called COVID-19 gave us a rare opportunity to disrupt

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the pangolin trade.

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I am not making this up.

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An organization called the Wildlife Justice Commission has been working hard doing an

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undercover sting operation to attempt to topple the pangolin trade.

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The illegal pangolin trade.

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The pangolin smugglers.

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So pangolin traffickers were using normalized shipping containers to ship pangolin scales

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right?

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But when COVID hit it just sort of you know stopped the global shipping industry for a

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bit.

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And so it got a lot harder to get space in the shipping container and so they started

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to get a bit desperate.

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The Wildlife Justice Commission snuck in and posed as a buyer.

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They actually sent in a woman who went undercover.

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They specifically chose a woman because the hubris of these fucking traffickers they were

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not as threatened by a woman as they would have been a man.

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This woman went in and was like yeah I'm trying to buy some scales.

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Let's talk about that.

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And these dudes just gave up everything.

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They were like oh yeah here's the scales that I have at this location.

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It didn't really happen that fast.

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It's been like a multi-year operation but now three out of four of their targets are

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in jail and the fourth is on the run and they're actively closing in on him.

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One of my favorite parts of this story aside from pangolins being very great are the nicknames

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they gave to the traffickers.

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It's just the right level of disrespect.

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So they're going to name these guys right?

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They gotta come up with code names.

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One of them was named Big Mac because the person who had to come up with the name was

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hungry at the time.

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And so they're like okay we'll call him Big Mac because I want a Big Mac.

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And then just as a kicker they named his accomplice Fries.

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Big Mac and Fries are both in jail.

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On this day in 1634 Urbain Grandier was executed after being charged with witchcraft.

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I guess in this case it would have been sorcery or warlockery.

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They did the thing that they did to witches.

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Dude was crispy.

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But how did we get here?

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How did he get charged with witchcraft?

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Let me tell you.

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So he was a priest right?

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And the local mother superior, the big big nun in charge, was apparently real into him.

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She saw him from afar and was like ayo and she also apparently heard about his sexual

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escapades.

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And then he rejected her.

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After that her and a bunch of other nuns accused him of bewitching them, sending a demon with

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them to go do evil shit and seducing them with magic.

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He was held and tried and some of the evidence in his trial was a literal signed document

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that was claimed to be signed by both him and a demon.

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I'm talking literally asmodeus.

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So either he bewitched a bunch of nuns using a demon or they got something wrong somewhere

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along the line.

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But either way he's no longer with us.

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Lightning round.

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Scientists have successfully recreated music being listened to by people by scanning their

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brains and running it through some AI.

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Speaking of AI, chat GPT's financials are not looking super good and they're kind of

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barreling towards bankruptcy.

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X, formerly Twitter, has now made XPro, formerly TweetDeck, a paid only feature.

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Tech YouTube channel Linus Tech Tips is really going through it right now.

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What started with a business scandal has now escalated into really shitty workplace allegations.

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Right-wing extremists have doxxed the people who were on the grand jury that indicted Trump

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in Georgia.

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And speaking of right-wing extremists, the CEO of Target said that they pulled their

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Pride merch this year because they were caving to the violence of right-wing extremists in

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their stores.

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And finally for today, a quick note, I'm going to be taking next week off from Stuff

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Keeps Happening, provisionally at least.

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I'm taking a new medication and it's got like a multi-week onboarding process and I

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don't quite know what kind of side effects I'm going to be dealing with yet.

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So I'm going to wait and see what happens.

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Bear with me, I'll still be around doing other stuff, but I'm not going to be doing

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Stuff Keeps Happening until the end of next week.

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I also have a new streaming schedule.

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I'll be streaming on my Twitch every Monday from 2 to 5pm, every Wednesday from 5 to 9pm,

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and every Saturday from 5 to 9pm.

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So Monday afternoons, Wednesday evenings, and Saturday evenings, I will see you there.

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Thank you so much for listening to today's episode of Stuff Keeps Happening.

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Head to StuffKeepsHappening.online for sources, bonus content, and probably an update on when

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I'll be back.

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My name is Endeavorance, I'll be back when I'm back, probably in about a week.

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Take care and be well.