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25.01.2022 Falkland Islanders have been celebrating the day their beaches and coves have been declared free of landmines - after almost 40 years. The British overseas territory was peppered with an estimated 13,000 mines by Argentine forces in the 1982 conflict. The task was carried out by a team of specialist de-miners, many of them from Zimbabwe. "We never thought the islands would be completely mine-free, this is a momentous change."... "More importantly, no-one has been seriously harmed doing this. It speaks volumes for the teams that have been responsible for doing this over so many years." - Dr Elsby. Source: @bbc

25.01.2022 Big news from Europe: Poland, the continent's last major holdout on coal, has announced an agreement between the government and unions to phase out coal production by 2049. That's the first time the country's powerful mining sector has agreed to reduce its presence, finally admitting that the writing is now on the wall. DW https://www.dw.com//poland-clinches-historic-de/a-57367983

25.01.2022 Remember this story the next time someone tells you a circular economy isn't possible at scale. In 2020 Adidas, the second largest shoe manufacturer in the world, produced 15 million pairs of shoes made from ocean plastic waste collected from beaches and coastal regions, and this year, will use recycled polyester in 60% of its products.

24.01.2022 In a truly sci-fi PR marketing stunt, a gaming company created a Blade Runner-like experience for fans of their game Princess Connect Re:Dive. In Shanghai,1,500 drones took to the sky to create a massive illuminated QR-code, effectively a billboard advertisement in the air, that you could scan on your phone, taking you to their homepage. Vice https://www.vice.com//a/88n9vb/shanghai-drone-show-qr-code

24.01.2022 In the first half of 2020, renewables generated 40% of Europe's electricity, whereas fossil fuels generated 34%. Most of this is due to coal being replaced by wind and solar. Coal’s market share has halved since 2016 to just 12% of the EU-27’s electricity generation. Meanwhile, wind and solar has increased its market share from 13% in 2016 to 21% in the first half of 2020. It’s now clear that Europe’s coal-to-clean transition is happening quicker than most people expected. ...On one hand, COVID-19 has slowed new wind and solar installations this year, but on the other hand, it has shown us that our electricity grids can cope with record shares of wind and solar on the electricity grid. Renewables have proved more resilient than fossil fuels in the face of this crisis. Source: https://ember-climate.org/pro/renewables-beat-fossil-fuels/

24.01.2022 Whilst remaining optimistic about our future, we must be careful about what we accept as truth. To traverse new information with a caring mind of discernment is important to sense-check whether it's our (or someone else's) emotions and belief systems that decide what is truth, or good factual evidence. Quote by Steven Pinker

24.01.2022 We're delighted to announce our next Future Brunch, with Sara Hendren, artist, engineer, and designer at the Olin College of Engineering. It's happening at 9am AEST, on Tuesday the 6th October. We're going to be exploring ideas around body augmentation, universal design, different forms of prosthetics, and new ways of thinking about the built environment. At the core of her work is the idea that people are disabled not by the shape of their body or how they work, but instead by the shape of the built environment in which they live.

20.01.2022 Want more good news? Subscribe at http://futurecrun.ch/signup 1. Community fridges are popping up across America for mutual aid amid the pandemic. The fridges are stocked by donations from local businesses and community members with extra food to spare. Stacks of non-perishable items are often found surrounding the fridges. 2. The Australian state of Victoria, home to Future Crunch and the centre of the country’s coronavirus outbreak, has reported its lowest daily increase of... infections in three months. 3. In the waters around Hong Kong, the pandemic has drastically reduced human traffic and the numbers of dolphins have risen by 30% since March. They are spending much more time socialising, splashing around on the surface and having quite a bit ofumsex. 4. Moderna has said it is on track to produce 20 million doses of its experimental coronavirus vaccine by the end of the year. 5. Kids in British Columbia can hopefully say goodbye to icky and uncomfortable COVID-19 tests. The Canadian province is launching a new gargle test for students ages 4 to 19 that is just as accurate as tests using a nasal swab. 6. New York State has recorded the lowest daily death toll from the virus since the start of the pandemic. 7. Hospitals in California are treating the fewest patients with coronavirus since April, and admissions to the state’s intensive care units have been dropping steadily too. 8. New Zealand has ended all pandemic restrictions outside its largest city Auckland as the number of new infections has slowed to a trickle. 9. Researchers at The University of Texas have developed an antibody test for COVID-19 that is faster, cheaper and more accurate. The test can be used to accurately measure how well candidate vaccines and other therapies elicit an immune response. 10. Scientists have isolated the smallest biological molecule to date that completely and specifically neutralises SARS-CoV-2, which is the cause of COVID-19. Importantly, it does not bind to human cells a good sign that it won’t have negative side-effects in people. 11. In China, hundreds of thousands of people have taken part in a trial of two COVID-19 vaccine candidates, without a reported case of infection or adverse effects. 12. Doctors and experts are saying that they have gone from fumbling in the dark to better being able to treat COVID-19, by understanding which drugs work. Treatments such as steroids, blood thinners and the antiviral medicine remdesivir have turned the tide, improving outcomes for very sick patients.

20.01.2022 As of the 1st January this year, single use plastics have been banned in Mexico City, home to 9 million people. The ban, which includes single-use containers, forks, straws, cotton swabs, plastic cups, plastic stirrers, single-use coffee capsules and balloons, comes as Mexico's capital strives to revamp its image as an eco-friendly, sustainable city.

20.01.2022 The Polish lower chamber of Parliament voted to ban fur farming! The law, which won a monumental battle, will also ban ritual slaughter for exports and the use of wild animals in circuses. With about 5 million animals, the Polish fur farming industry will have to close its farms over 12 months once the legislation enters into force. The law, which passed with the overwhelming 365 'YES' votes, only 75 'NO's and 18 abstentions, also stipulates that ritual slaughter (i.e. slaugh...ter without stunning) for exports will be prohibited, after a transition period of only 30 days after the law kicks in. Wild animals in circuses will also not be allowed. Source: https://www.ciwf.eu//white-smoke-from-warsaw-poland-set-to

18.01.2022 Future Crunch's home, Victoria, Australia, is the second-most populous state and home to a quarter of Australia's 25 million people. Despite being the only state in stage 4 lockdown due to a second wave of COVID cases in July, the past week has been looking promising as Victorias new cases per day continued to plummet to just 5 new cases on Sunday, September 27. It's the lowest on record since June 11. Our love goes out too all those with us in Victoria's lockdown, and in l...ockdown everywhere else around the world. Your care to stay safe and stop the spread has saved lives. We're looking forward to the time where we can celebrate all life again in the outside world. Source: https://www.reuters.com//australia-virus-hotspot-state-rec

17.01.2022 The Gambia has become the third African country to eliminate trachoma. It's an extraordinary achievement: in the mid-1980s, trachoma was responsible for almost 1 out of 5 cases of blindness. Behind it lies three decades of hard work by community volunteers, who played a crucial role in raising awareness and promoting behaviour change. https://www.sightsavers.org//the-story-of-the-gambias-jou/

17.01.2022 The Social Progress Index asks universally important questions about the success of our societies. It's 2020 report shows that the world has improved on 8 of 12 key measures in the past decade. 95% of countries have improved by one point or more, and only 2% have declined. Follow the link below to see the full report.... Source: https://www.socialprogress.org//2020-Global-SPI-Findings.p

16.01.2022 A drug usually prescribed for rheumatoid arthritis has been found to shorten the time to recovery in hospitalized COVID-19 patients when used along with remdesivir. The drug baricitinib, cut the median recovery time by about a day when added to remdesivir, compared to patients treated with the antiviral alone. Remdesivir was granted an emergency use authorization in May after trial data showed it helped shorten hospital recovery time by 31%.... As an already approved and available drug, we believe baricitinib could serve as an important additional treatment option as the medical community continues to learn how to best manage patients hospitalized with COVID-19, said Mizuho analyst Vamil Divan. Source: https://www.reuters.com//eli-lillys-rheumatoid-arthritis-d

15.01.2022 Last week's announcement by the US government that it will halve its emissions by 2030 is a much bigger deal than most people realise. To pull it off, the country would be looking at a fundamental transformation of its industrial base. Think about what it means for all of this to happen in one decade. NYT >50% of electricity from renewable energy (+20% from today). CO2 released from new natural gas plants to be captured and buried. All 200 remaining coal plants shut dow...n. 2/3 of new cars and SUVs sold to be battery-powered (+97% from today). All new buildings heated by electricity instead of natural gas. Cement, steel, and chemical industries adopting strict new energy-efficiency targets. Oil and gas producers slashing methane emissions by 60%. Expanding regenerative forestry and agricultural practices to pull 20% more CO2 from the air than today. https://www.nytimes.com//biden-emissions-target-economy.ht

14.01.2022 Japan used to be the world's biggest consumer of tropical logs. Now, thanks to efforts by both Malaysia and Papua New Guinea to protect their forests, imports have dropped to almost zero, and the country's biggest importer will go out of business this spring. "The impact of United Nations-set sustainable development goals on procurement has hurt us like a jab."

13.01.2022 The British territory of Tristan da Cunha has created the fourth largest completely protected marine area in the world, and the largest in the Atlantic. The 687,000 km2 sanctuary will be a no-take zone, meaning fishing and other harmful activities will be banned to protect the wildlife found on and around the chain of islands, including albatross, penguins, whales, sharks and seals. Around 8 percent of the world’s oceans are designated as MPAs, but only 2.6 percent are totall...y off-limits to fishing. The National Geographic Society’s Campaign for Nature Initiative has called for 30 percent of the ocean to be protected, a figure their research shows would allow ecosystems to provide benefits like ample fish stocks. Safeguarding that much of the ocean, they say, will also help protect critically endangered species from extinction. We have 10 years to protect 30 percent of the ocean if we want to stop the extinction of species, Source: National Geographic

13.01.2022 New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has lifted all coronavirus restrictions across the country, except in second-wave hotspot Auckland, as the number of new infections slow to a trickle. Some restrictions were also eased in Auckland to allow gatherings of up to 100 people, but the country’s biggest city needed more time before all curbs could be lifted. Our actions collectively have managed to get the virus under control, said Ardern, This was the centre of the outbr...eak and that’s why that caution is needed here. Source: https://www.reuters.com//new-zealand-ends-all-pandemic-res : @pabloheimplatz

13.01.2022 Want more Good News? Subscribe to our newsletter at http://futurecrunch.com/subscribe Iceland, one of three remaining whaling nations, will not resume hunting any whales, as public opinion changes and consumption of whale meat declines, commercial whaling may be one step closer to a permanent end in Iceland and possibly the world. Meanwhile, in the northern coastal village of Hauganes (population: 137), the number of whale watching visitors rose from 4,000 in 2015 to 17,000 ...by 2018. Source: https://www.nationalgeographic.com//commercial-whaling-ma/

13.01.2022 A little peek behind the scenes here at Future Crunch. Every month we have a team meeting, and to kick things off, one person gets to choose a song and a theme... and we spend the first five minutes having a proper dance. Certainly makes Zoom a whole lot more interesting. Last month's theme? Rock n' Roll.

12.01.2022 Walmart has set a target of reaching net-zero in its global operations by 2040. Walmart says it will reach net zero by 2040 by taking the following steps: - Harvesting enough wind, solar, and other sources to power its facilities with 100% renewable energy by 2035. - Switching to cooling equipment that uses low-impact refrigerants. - Electrifying its vehicles, including long-haul trucks, by 2040.... - Protect, manage, or restore at least 50 million acres of land and 1 million square miles of ocean by 2030. Source: https://electrek.co//egeb-walmart-net-zero-2040-suntober-/

12.01.2022 Join us for Future Brunch with Professor Sara Hendren on Tuesday 6th October, 9am AEST. Sara is awesome, her work weaves effortlessly in and out of the worlds of art, engineering and design, giving her a really unique perspective on objects and systems that the rest of us don't even see any more. We're going to be geeking out on stuff like radical augmentation, amazing prosthetics, and how to design our built environment so that it doesn't suck. https://www.crowdcast.io/e/future-brunch-episode-8

12.01.2022 Want more Good News? Subscribe to our newsletter at http://futurecrunch.com/subscribe Japan's suicide rate has continually decreased year over year in the past decade. 2019 closed out the year with the lowest number of deaths since 1978 when the government first started keeping records. The continual decrease now results in 10,000 fewer deaths a year compared to figures from the early 2000's.... Source: http://www.japansubculture.com/japans-death-wish-resurges-/

11.01.2022 Tane Hunter & Shasta Henry from our Future Crunch Team are going live on Real Talk to speak about the future with @_consciousconversations on Thursday, 1st October 2020. During this conversation, we will explore ways to empower ourselves on what the future looks like and how we can be inspired and challenged to think differently to the technology that is coming. We all want to live in a world where we are merging humanity and technology in the best possible light and this di...scussion will give us a glimpse into a world where technology can work for humanity and not against it. Time: THURS 1st OCT- A/EST 7.30PM - 9PM Get your ticket to join the conversation https://www.consciousconversations.live/eve/realtalk-future

11.01.2022 Want more Good News? Subscribe to our newsletter at futurecrunch.com/subscribe Humanity is winning its fight against elephantiasis, a horrible parasitic disease causing irreversible disfigurement, and the second leading cause of disability in the world. In the last 20 years, the number of people infected has dropped by 74%, from 199 million to 51.4 million, and last year three countries, Malawi, Kiribati and Yemen, eliminated it altogether. ... Source: The Lancet

10.01.2022 The Navajo Nation stretches 27,000 square miles across Arizona, New Mexico and Utah. Unfortunately, resources are limited and the area has fewer than 15 grocery stores. But now, small gardens and cornfields are rising up, as citizens have woken up to the importance of healthy food. It took a deadly virus to make people realize just how important this is, how important it is to grow your own food. I want to show the whole Navajo Nation, and even off the reservation, that yo...u can live with the earth and you don’t have to rely so much on the outside to feed yourself, Summer Brown said. We have all this land. We should be able to just go outside and get our food. Source: https://www.nytimes.com//navajo-nation-food-coronavirus.ht

09.01.2022 Pneumonia remains the deadliest killer of children under 5 years of age, with 100 children dying of the disease every hour. The leading cause of severe pneumonia, pneumococcus bacterium, is entirely preventable by receiving the pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV). Its previous $3.50 price point thwarted many children in poverty-stricken countries from accessing this life-saving vaccine. However, a new supply agreement between the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and ...the Serum Institute of India has dramatically dropped the pneumonia vaccine price by 43%, making the PCV vaccine cost $2 per dose. The drop in price expands the protection against one of the world’s deadliest diseases for millions of children in developing countries. Thanks to this visionary model we have a healthy PCV market that is producing enough vaccines to supply both rich and poor countries and, as a result, hundreds of millions of children are now protected against one of the world’s deadliest diseases, said Aurelia Nguyen, Gavi’s managing director for vaccines and sustainability. Source: https://www.borgenmagazine.com/pneumonia-vaccine/ UNICEF UNICEF India CDC

08.01.2022 The 2020 edition of the annual outlook reveals that global oil demand will not regain the levels seen last year. It adds that demand could soon fall rapidly in the face of stronger climate action by at least 10% this decade and by as much as 50% over the next 20 years. The latest outlook was delayed by six months so that it could reflect the unprecedented impact of the coronavirus pandemic. The delay also reflects BP’s plans, set out over the course of this year, to reach n...et-zero emissions by 2050 as an integrated energy company, rather than an oil major. This means that alongside its conservative business-as-usual scenario in which demand for gas continues to rise indefinitely BP has also looked at the effect of stronger climate action. In its rapid and net-zero scenarios, coal and oil see fast declines, while gas peaks by 2025 or 2035. Source: https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-world-has-already-pass

08.01.2022 To bring food aid to those who need it most during the pandemic, people of the New York boroughs, as well as New Jersey, Los Angeles and Oakland, have been setting up networks of community fridges. The fridges sit on the out the front of stores and are full of donated food from neighbours and local businesses. The fridges help feed people in the middle of a pandemic and mass unemployment in a year whereas many as 54m Americans could need food aid. The best part is, there a...re no strings attached and no questions asked, with a 'take what you need, leave what you can' system. Mutual aid means something different than the way welfare works, where you’re being quizzed [on your need], because you have to qualify for the aid. You have to be really, really [good], explains Pita, who volunteers delivering food to local fridges. And that’s not what we’re saying. Source: https://www.theguardian.com//no-one-should-go-hungry-sidew

08.01.2022 A new study in The Lancet has shown that between 2013 and 2017, air pollution in 74 key Chinese cities fell by a third, driven by a 85.4% decline in household air pollution and a 12% decline in PM2.5. As a result, the death rate attributable to air pollution has plummeted by more than 60%, saving hundreds of thousands of lives. Source: https://www.thelancet.com//PIIS2542-5196(20)30161/fulltext

07.01.2022 Women’s rights activists in Iran have campaigned for a bill against gender-based violence for 16 years, and now the government is taking a stand on the issue. Hassan Rouhani’s administration passed a bill on the 4th January this year that protects women against domestic and other forms of gender-based violence.

07.01.2022 As the moon's gravity pulls at the Earth's surface, it heaves vast quantities of ocean water around the globe in predictable patterns. Where this mass of water is forced through narrow gaps or around headlands, it speeds up, and it's possible to harvest that kinetic energy to drive turbines under the ocean's surface. Orbital's O2, the most powerful tidal turbine in the world, is on it's way to Orkney Islands, an archipelago in the Northern Isles of Scotland. NewAtlas https://newatlas.com/energy/orbital-o2-tidal-turbine/

07.01.2022 In this #InformationAge it’s more important than ever to inspect the media that we consume and share, to ensure we’ve separated the hype and pseudo-information from the truth. Here is our step by step guide on how to do good research, to ensure the beliefs and perspectives you share are based on solid information. We believe that with curiosity, optimism, and good research, we create a brighter future.... We’re wishing you safe and curious travels on the information-superhighway, With love, Future Crunch. For Future Crunch articles and a weekly digest of good news, sign up to our newsletter futurecrunch.com/subscribe #researchlife #mediabias

07.01.2022 Want more Good News? Subscribe to our newsletter via http://futurecrunch.com/subscribe Since Donald Trump took office, the clean energy sector in the United States has employed nearly three times as many people as the fossil fuels industry, and between 2016 and 2019, renewables added more than double the jobs that fossil fuels did. Sometimes, a simple piece of data paints a clearer picture than a thousand opinion pieces. #MAGA. ... Source: Morning Consult

06.01.2022 Said well by Carl Sagan ... Whilst extraordinary claims that bring hope to our future can be instantly gratifying to our inner optimist, it's incredibly important that these claims are always backed up by secure evidence. Otherwise, we set ourselves up for gloom and disappointment later on, or live in an unrealistic mindset that can be damaging to the way that we live right now. More coming on 'how to do good research', to help cut through the onslaught of conflicting media in this 'information age'.

06.01.2022 Want more Good News? Subscribe to our newsletter at http://futurecrunch.com/subscribe Another one bites the coal dust. The Philippines, the third-largest ASEAN economy, has announced it will no longer accept proposals to construct new coal power plants. This caps off a brutal October for the global fossil fuels industry, after dozens of financial institutions announced exits last month not just from coal, but oil and gas too.... 2020 to-date has seen 56 global banks, insurers, pension funds and asset managers announce new or expanded coal exit policies. Source: https://ieefa.org/ieefa-why-2020-is-turning-out-be-a-pivo/

05.01.2022 Mathematicians have always wondered whether it's possible to draw a straight line over the surface of a 12-sided dodecahedron that would eventually return you to your starting point without passing through any corners. Why? Who knows - they're mathematicians - and they've finally figured out the answer. Apparently it was a lot harder than it sounds. German engineers have developed a 3D printing method that produces metal that's harder and stronger than Damascus steel, but do...esn't require forging skills or furnaces. "Our material has a tensile strength of 1,300 megapascals and 10% elongation, showing superior mechanical properties to those of ancient Damascus steel." 3D Printing Industry Researchers in California have built a system that can see through fog based on the movement of individual particles of light, or photons. It's an amazing technical achievement. Essentially they've developed X-ray vision without X-rays. The hope is that someday, a descendant of this system could see through the gas clouds of moons and planets. Australian scientists have developed artificial skin that reacts to pain in the same way humans do. Made from stretchable, extremely thin electronics, it responds to pressure and temperature with the same speed as nerve signals, opening the way to better prosthetics, smarter robotics and non-invasive skin grafts. A group of legends in Canada have spent 14 years building a giant four-legged exoskeleton mech warrior and we can't believe this is actually a thing. Furrion Exo-Bionics (THAT IS HOW YOU NAME A MECH WARRIOR COMPANY PEOPLE) is now offering members of the public the chance to become pilots. The Mechs have arrived. Want more science news in your inbox? Subscribe at http://futurecrun.ch/signup

04.01.2022 Fifty years ago, a Japanese astronomer named Yoshiaki Sofue theorized the existence of a huge pair of bubbles straddling the heart of our galaxy. He was right. Scientists now have evidence of two humungous lobes extending 20,000 light-years above and below the galactic plane. That means that something huge exploded in the center of the Milky Way 20 million years ago, around the time hyenas and weasels were emerging on Earth. Scientists have confirmed the the oldest-known anim...al drawing in the world, a 45,500-year-old depiction of a hairy, warty pig on a cave wall in Indonesia. The red mineral ochre painting includes the outlines of two human hands above the pig's rump, providing further evidence that the first rock art traditions did not arise in ice age Europe, as long supposed. Engineers from Marseille have figured out a way to do laser sintering (a form of 3D printing) with glass. The technique, which until now has only been possible for metals and plastics, uses a laser beam to harden a liquid precursor into solid glass, allowing them to create a variety of silica objects such as miniature models of a bike and the Eiffel Tower, without any pores or cracks. Until now, cicadas were thought to be the only animal with long periodical life cycles - emerging every seven and thirteen years. A study that's been running in Japan since 1972 has now discovered a second periodical species that emerges every eight years: train millipedes, so-called because they frequently obstruct trains in the mountainous region of Honshu. In what is believed to be a medical first, researchers from Johns Hopkins have enabled a quadriplegic man to control a pair of prosthetic arms with his mind. In January 2019, surgeons implanted six electrodes into the brain of Robert 'Buz' Chmielewski. Two years later, he is able to cut food and bring it to his mouth using signals detected from both sides of the brain.

02.01.2022 Want more Good News? Subscribe to our newsletter at http://futurecrunch.com/subscribe Amidst the election drama, you might have missed a far bigger story from the world of astrobiology. @NASA just confirmed there are at least 300 million Earth-like planets in the Milky Way - rocky worlds that orbit stars like our Sun and might have surface water. Doesn't guarantee there's life out there, but it certainly makes it a lot more likely. New century = new, less deadly weapons of wa...r. In the 44-day conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh, unmanned drones were decisive, allowing Azerbaijan to destroy Armenia’s conventional artillery, and negate its superior air force. @theprint Meanwhile, it looks like China used microwave weapons in its Himalayan standoff with India, leaving soldiers temporarily incapacitated without using live ammunition. @theweek A Japanese company has made a sweater with material that comes from a bioreactor, not an animal. The new material'Brewed Protein'was originally developed as a biotech version of spider silk, and is made by putting microbes, sugars, and minerals in large tanks, drying them into a fiber, and then spinning that into yarn. @FastCo Neuroscientists have identified 'time cells' in our brain that place a time stamp on memories as they are formed, allowing us to recall events or experiences in the right order. They're not like clocks though; instead, their ticks and tocks are constantly speeding up or slowing down, depending on factors like mood. We guess that explains why lockdown feels like such a time warp. @NPR The promise of metagenomic next-generation DNA sequencing has finally been realized, after Californian scientists developed an incredible new sequencing technique to detect multiple pathogens from any type of body fluid. This means a single clinical laboratory test can now zero in on bacteria, viruses, or fungi causing infections in hospitalized patients in as little as six hours. @UCSF Rebirth through technology, and the return of lost dreams and old loves. Brazilian pianist, João Carlos Martins, long considered to be one of the greatest interpreters of Bach, has not played with ten fingers since losing the use of his right hand in 1995. Now, thanks to a pair of $100 3D-printed bionic gloves, he's at the piano again and recently shared a video playing one of his favourite Bach sonatas. @indianexpress

02.01.2022 Want more Good News? Subscribe to our newsletter at http://futurecrunch.com/subscribe New rules state that cannabis should be made available for free in Argentinas public health system for patients without insurance. Yes, you heard that right. Publicly funded medical marijuana. The times they are a changin'. This new stage [in the law] starts to redress the injustice of the persecution and stigmatization of a plant that has brought quality of life to a lot of people, - Mam...a Cultiva Argentina. Source: @vice