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Gavin Newsom says California won’t do business with Walgreens over its refusal to distribute abortion pills in 20 states – CBS News
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Alex Murdaugh trial – live: Timeline of murders delivers new revelations about pills, money, and phone records – The Independent
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‘Dances With Wolves’ actor Nathan Chasing Horse told wives to shoot at cops, take ‘suicide pills’
Former child actor and alleged cult leader Nathan Chasing Horse reportedly armed his wives with guns and “suicide pills” to use in case police ever attempted to “break their family apart,” according to new records.
Chasing Horse, who was arrested on sex abuse charges Tuesday, trained his five wives to use firearms and ordered them to “shoot it out” with cops if they came to tear the family apart — or ingest the fatal pills he stockpiled as a backup plan, according to a 50-page search warrant obtained by The Associated Press.
Chasing Horse — known for his role in the 1990 Kevin Costner film “Dances With Wolves” — is accused of sexually assaulting Indigenous girls as young as 14 for roughly two decades.
SWAT officers raided his north Las Vegas home Tuesday following an investigation dating back to October 2022. Police recovered memory cards containing videos of the alleged sex assaults, multiple firearms, 41 pounds of marijuana and psilocybin mushrooms from the home, according to an arrest report.
He was taken into police custody and booked into Clark County jail, where he remains held without bail while he awaits his first court appearance.
The sexual abuse accusations against the accused cult leader date back to the early 2000s and span multiple states.
Investigators said Chasing Horse, 46, used his influence and power among US and Canadian tribes — whose members believed he was a “Medicine Man” and “Holy Person” capable of communicating with higher beings — to prey on young Indigenous girls and create a cult.
“Nathan Chasing Horse used spiritual traditions and their belief system as a tool to sexually assault young girls on numerous occasions,” the search warrant states.
He will be charged with at least two counts of sex trafficking and one count each of sexual assault of a child younger than 16, child abuse or neglect and sexual assault, according to court records. Those charges are still pending.
Las Vegas police have identified at least six sexual assault victims who were as young as 14 when they say they were abused by Chasing Horse.
Followers of the cult he’s believed to lead called “The Circle” reportedly offered their underage daughters for him to take as wives, according to the document.
One girl was offered as a “gift” to him when she was just 15, police said in the warrant.
He also allowed other men to have sex with the victims for a payment and recorded the sexual assaults, investigators alleged.
At least two women in the “The Circle” cult said Chasing Horse had shown them the stash of the “small white pills” between 2019 and 2020 and told them to swallow one to kill themselves if he died or law enforcement intervened.
More than 10 years before his arrest, Chasing Horse was reportedly banished from the Fort Peck Reservation in Poplar, Montana, amid allegations of human trafficking, drug dealing, spiritual abuse and intimidation of tribal leaders.
In 2015, Fort Peck tribal leaders had voted 7-0 to ban him from stepping foot on the reservation ever again, Indian Country Today reported.
The accused cult leader was born on the Rosebud Reservation — home to the Sicangu Sioux tribe — in South Dakota.
He played the role of a young Sioux tribe member named Smiles a Lot in the Oscar-winning movie “Dances with Wolves.”
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Young women abandoning birth control pills for mental health
I started taking the birth control pill as a sophomore in high school to help with my acne. Most of my friends got prescriptions around then, too.
I never thought twice about birth control — let alone going off it — until the pandemic, when I had more time to consider the pill I popped every morning. I began wondering how taking artificial hormones every day was impacting how I think and feel.
Recently, after six years on it, I decided to stop taking the pill. But it isn’t just me. Many of my friends are independently doing the same, whether it’s driven by concern for their mental health, desire for something more natural — or curiosity about what the world looks like when you’re not in a hormonal fog.
For more and more Gen Z women, there’s an intuitive sense that hormonal birth control might be messing with us, and our brains. And research is backing it up, showing correlations between the pill and a decreased sex drive, as well as higher rates of depression and suicide, and even stress reactions similar to PTSD survivors.
Research psychologist Dr. Sarah Hill thinks so. In 2019, she published the book This is Your Brain on Birth Control: The Surprising Science of Women, Hormones, and the Law of Unintended Consequences after going off of the pill herself.
“It was going off of the pill and seeing how that changed me that inspired me to write the book,” Hill, who is a professor of social psychology at Texas Christian University, told The Post. “I had a lot more energy, and I was exercising and cooking again. Suddenly, I was interested in sex.”
Since then, Dr. Hill said, she’s noticed a “greater awareness of some of the side effects” of the pill that has potentially contributed to a slow but steady decline in prescriptions. Between 2002 and 2017, there was a 9% decrease in oral contraceptive use.
And, although more up to date numbers are yet to come in, doctors are anecdotally noting an increase in young women desiring a change.
“I have noticed that many patients prefer non-hormonal birth control,” Dr. Taraneh Shirazian, a gynecologist at NYU Langone Health and director of the Center for Fibroid Care, told The Post. “Many are keen on limiting their body’s exposure to outside hormones so that they can feel more natural and like themselves.”
This trend may be partly inspired by viral TikTok and YouTube videos discussing the pill’s side effects — and the early days of COVID.
“The pandemic allowed us to focus attention on our health,” Dr. Hill explained. “For women who were not in relationships and weren’t sexually active, it was an opportunity to break up with their birth control …They wanted to find out how they would think and feel and experience the world without it.”
Komi Frey, 30 of Albuquerque, decided to go off of the pill in 2021 after about six years of taking it. “I went off the pill primarily because I didn’t like the idea of ingesting exogenous hormones on a daily basis,” she told The Post. “I just had an instinctive aversion to that idea.”
It’s a sentiment Dr. Hill has noticed more and more.
“We are moving, culturally, toward a place where we’re recognizing that putting a bunch of chemicals in our body isn’t necessarily a great idea,” she said. “People are looking for more natural approaches.”
Dr. Hill’s research is shedding light on just how profoundly the birth control pill can impact women beyond the classic side effects like weight gain, blood clots and even stroke.
One of the most commonly reported psychological side effects of the pill is decreased sex drive. That’s because women on the pill have artificially high levels of progesterone, which Dr. Hill dubs “sexual anti-venom.” Research has revealed that taking oral contraceptives is associated with a decreased enjoyment of sex, on top of an already lowered libido.
But the pill may also impact partner selection, too. Researchers found that women on oral contraceptives prefer less masculine faces in potential partners. Women off the pill, meanwhile, have been found to subconsciously prefer the scent of men with higher testosterone.
It’s an experience Kennedie Khourie had herself. The 24-year-old Austin, Texas, resident decided to go off of the pill last spring after six years, she suspected her mental health was being adversely impacted.
Not only did Khourie feel “less hormonal and manic” after quitting, but she experienced entirely different feelings toward potential partners. “I’m not even attracted to the same people,” she told The Post. “People smell different to me. Men smell different to me.”
Amazingly, research reveals that the change in attraction is so pronounced that women who picked their partners while on the pill are more likely to experience diminished satisfaction with their romantic relationships when they go off of it.
But birth control’s impact on the brain goes beyond just sexual preferences. It’s impacting women’s experience of the world around them. According to Dr. Hill’s research, being on the pill may be associated with lower self-control and less perseverance.
It also affects the way women react to stress. While the body’s typical response to a stressful experience is the release of the hormone cortisol, women on the pill have a dulled — or completely absent — cortisol response.
As a result, they tend to have a diminished capacity to process negative emotions. In fact, this muted cortisol response looks a lot like that of someone suffering from PTSD.
According to Dr. Hill, “We should all be alarmed by the fact that the stress hormone profiles of women who are on the birth control pill look more like those belonging to trauma victims than they do like those belonging to otherwise healthy young women.”
Both Dr. Shirazian and Dr. Hill have noticed a generational change in attitudes about birth control, with Gen Z at the forefront of a new movement toward more natural, non-hormonal alternatives.
Dr. Shirazian thinks it is “part of a generational shift.” She said younger patients generally “want more natural products, less hormones and chemicals, and also want to use products that are environmentally friendly.”
“This generation of women is demanding they get information about what’s going into their body,” Dr. Hill said. “A younger generation of women are saying, ‘Hey, wait a minute. You can’t just tell me what to put in my body and expect me to blindly obey.’”
Laura Lear, 24 of Houston, Texas, went on the pill at the age of 20 — later than many of her friends — when her then-boyfriend and peers urged her to do so.
“I just fell into peer pressure,” she told The Post. “My friends were going on it, and I just decided, ‘Okay, if this is what everyone else is doing.’ It was so normal for kids at 13 or 14 to get on it because they had bad acne. It kind of became the cool thing to do, like, ‘Oh, I take my pill every day at 3 o’clock, let’s sync our timers together.’”
But this generation of young women who went on the pill before they were even sexually active may be shouldering unintended consequences. Research has revealed that going through adolescence on the pill is associated with measurable density differences in brain regions involved with memory and emotions.
It’s a discovery that doesn’t surprise Dr. Hill: “To be honest with you, I don’t know how anyone could predict anything other than that, because the puberty transition is when your brain is remodeling itself from its childlike phenotype into its adult version of itself. It’s hard to believe that, by some miracle, it wouldn’t affect brain development.”
Researchers also found birth control use during adolescence is associated with a “small but robust” increase in the risk of major depressive disorder later in life. Girls who start the pill early are disproportionately likely to be prescribed antidepressants and diagnosed with depression. And a study of half a million women in Denmark revealed early hormonal contraceptive use may even be associated with a tripled risk of suicide.
This risk of lifelong mental health issues and even suicide is not only startling, it’s been largely underreported despite how many young women continue to be prescribed hormonal birth control with little to no warnings.
“It seems to me that there is this belief that birth control as an issue facing women has been solved: We have the pills, and so what’s all the whining and fussing about?” Dr. Hill said. “Drug companies and others who could be investing in trying to find something better for us are mistaking the fact that so many women are on it for the fact that we don’t need something better.”
In fact, only 2% of revenue from birth control pill sales goes back into research and development. And more young women are taking notice.
“We as a society are losing trust in knowledge-producing institutions, including the medical field,” Frey observed. “We’ve realized that they’re often prone to political and financial pressures, as well as human limitations. The incentive system is somewhat warped.”
None of this is to say that the birth control pill hasn’t been an enormous net-positive for women.
Providing liberation through family planning has afforded women flexibility and independence: Females now outnumber males in the college-educated labor force. That’s perhaps why there’s some resistance, especially among older generations, to talking about the pill’s shortfalls.
“A lot of women are very protective of the birth control pill just simply because they can remember a time when these types of options weren’t available,” Dr. Hill noted. “They’re trying to make sure that these options continue to be protected for the latest generation of women.”
That protectiveness is more consequential now than ever, in the wake of Roe v. Wade being overturned.
“Going off the pill is especially scary because I cannot get pregnant,” Khourie, who lives in Texas where abortion is now banned, said. “The reversal of Roe just made it scarier, because I would have to jump through more hoops if something were to happen.”
Many women going off the pill are opting for non-hormonal options, like the copper IUD, diaphragms and — sharing the burden with men as well — condoms. Others, like Frey and Lear, who are both married, are tracking their ovulatory cycles and depending on natural family planning.
“I would like to see there be more normalization of women doing whatever is best for their own bodies,” Khourie said.
As Dr. Hill explained: “There’s no one size fits all answer for anything when it comes to something as complex as contraception.”
MIT’s 10 breakthrough technologies for 2023: Abortion pills via telehealth and engineered organs
Engineered organs that could end transplant waiting lists, abortion pills on demand and mass-marketing military drones that will revolutionize warfare are among those listed on MIT Technology Review’s 10 Breakthrough Technologies of 2023.
The list also includes the use of CRISPR to edit away people’s problems with high cholesterol by rewriting a sliver of their DNA, artificial intelligence that makes artwork and NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, which is set to remodel our knowledge of the cosmos.
The 22nd annual list features critical technological advances predicted to change how we live and work fundamentally.
MIT Technology Review, owned by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, compiled the list of companies or institutions set to develop breakthroughs and when the public can expect these innovations.
MIT Technology Review announced its 10 Breakthrough Technologies of 2023, which are advanced technologies predicted to change our lives
Mat Honan, editor-in-chief of MIT Technology Review, said: ‘Our breakthrough technologies lists are fascinating snapshots of the evolution of big tech innovation breakthroughs.
‘They document the progress we have made in many of the core areas at the intersection of science and engineering. Inclusion is not an endorsement as much as it is a statement about the potential impact of a technology.
‘Some of my favorite picks on the list this year are the ones that inspire a sense of awe and wonder at the scope of human achievement.’
CRISPR for high cholesterol: Editing genes to save lives
The list includes the use of CRISPR to edit away people’s problems with high cholesterol by rewriting a sliver of their DNA. In July 2022, a patient in New Zealand received a gene-editing medicine (pictured) that permanently lowered her cholesterol
Artificial intelligence is a major technology and is being used to create stunning pieces of artwork
WHO: Verve Therapeutics, Beam Therapeutics, Prime Medicine, Broad Institute
WHEN: 10 to 15 years
In July 2022, a patient in New Zealand received a gene-editing medicine that permanently lowered her cholesterol.
The move led to a trial among 40 individuals from the UK and the US, who are now testing ‘Verve-101.’
The cholesterol-lowering treatment, developed by Verve Therapeutics, relies on a form of gene editing called base editing, or ‘CRISPR 2.0.’
Verve-101 deletes a tiny hereditary flaw that causes life-threatening amounts of fatty substances in the blood.
In November, a team of scientists led University of California, Los Angeles, announced they had tailored DNA-editing technology to turbocharge how the body fights cancer cells.
These systems are given simple instructions on what the creator wants via text. Tools like DALL-E and Midjourney, for example, can create everything from absurd hypotheticals and porn to realistic faces of fake people and self-portraits in a matter of seconds
They modified patients’ genes to instruct cancer-fighting cells to swarm tumors using CRISPR, administered as a one-off injection.
Then there is the lasted form of CRISPR, ‘CRISPR 3.0,’ which lets scientists insert pieces of DNA into a genome, which could allow them to replace disease-causing genes.
AI that makes images: Systems create stunning images from simple phrases
WHO: OpenAI, Stability AI, Midjourney, Google
WHEN: Now
OpenAI released its original version of DALL-E, named after Spanish surrealist artist Salvador Dali, and Pixar robot WALL-E, in January 2021.
This system launched as a limited test of ways AI could represent concepts – from boring descriptions to flights of fancy.
And a year later, OpenAi released DALL-E 2, which produces complete images from a simple plain English sentence.
The new version can create images from simple text, add objects to existing images, or even provide different points of view on an existing image.
MIT Technology Review notes that ‘the biggest game-changer was Stable Diffusion, an open-source text-to-image model released for free by UK-based startup Stability AI in August.
This system also produces stunning images, but is designed to run on a home computer rather than a professional device.
‘By making text-to-image models accessible to all, Stability AI poured fuel on what was already an inferno of creativity and innovation,’ according to MIT Technology Review.
While many might not thing chips are advancing, the standard at which they are made is. The open standard known as RISC-V simplifies instructions given to the processor to accomplish tasks and provides the flexibility to create thousands
‘Millions of people have created tens of millions of images in just a few months. But there are problems, too.’
Google has long been in the AI industry but is making a stronger push to stay relevant.
The tech giant released AI-generated video clips that looked like human hands made them.
A chip design that changes everything: New standards will let anyone create chips
WHO: RISC-V International, Intel, SiFive, SemiFive, China RISC-V Industry Alliance
WHEN: Now
Computer chip designs are expensive and hard to license.
That is all about to change thanks to the popular open standard known as RISC-V, which simplifies the instructions given to the processor to accomplish tasks and provides the flexibility to create thousands of possible custom processors.
This new standard would also speed up the process for companies to get their products to market.
RISC-V’s simplest design has just 47 instructions. But RISC-V also offers other design norms for companies seeking chips with more complex capabilities.
America has long been the leader in using drones on the battlefield. This is due to its Predator (pictured) that was conceived in the early 1990s and cost around $40 million
Technologies are advancing to allow other countries to create war drones at a lower cost. For example, Iran produced a $30,000 drone capable of long-range missions that Russia used (pictured)
‘About 3,100 members worldwide, including companies and academic institutions, are now collaborating via the nonprofit RISC-V International to establish and develop these norms,’ according to MIT Technology Review.
‘In February 2022, Intel announced a $1 billion fund that will, in part, support companies building RISC-V chips.’
Although slowly, these chips are currently being used and are found in earbuds, hard drives and AI processors.
Mass-market military drones: Providing drones at a lower price will change the way wars are fought
WHO: Baykar Technologies, Shahed Aviation Industries
WHEN: Now
America has long been the leader in using drones on the battlefield.
This is due to the nation’s Predator which was conceived in the early 1990s and cost around $40 million.
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One reason for the dominance is that the US has the funds for such technologies.
However, MIT Technology Review notes that the game has changed, and military drones are being produced at a lower price, allowing nations like Ukraine, Iran and Turkey to utilize the weapons.
For example, Iran produced a $30,000 drone capable of long-range missions, while Turkey produced its own for $5 million.
‘The tactical advantages are clear. What’s also sadly clear is that these weapons will take an increasingly horrible toll on civilian populations around the world,’ reads the report.
Abortion pills via telehealth: A new market emerges after the overturn of Roe v. Wade
WHO: Choix, Hey Jane, Aid Access, Just the Pill, Abortion on Demand, Planned Parenthood, Plan C
WHEN: Now
Medical treatment was transformed when the coronavirus pandemic gripped the US.
People could get treatment using a smartphone or computer in the comfort of their homes.
And with the news of the US Supreme Court ruling to overturn Roe v. Wade on June 24, 2022, medical experts set out to provide care to those in states where abortion is now banned. The procedure is illegal in 11 states.
Nonprofits like Aid Access and startups like Choix, Hey Jane and Just the Pill launched in what like seemed overnight.
Organs on demand is another on MIT’s list. This innovation could save hundreds of thousands of lives. Terminal heart failure sufferer David Bennett underwent the nine-hour experimental procedure where he received a heart transplant from a genetically-modified pig
In 2019, researchers in Germany created transparent human organs using a new technology that could pave the way to print three-dimensional body parts such as kidneys for transplants
These companies ship abortion pills to people’s homes after they sign up with a photo ID and consult with a medical provider via video call, text or an app, who then prescribes the pills.
And while abortion is illegal in nearly a dozen states, this month, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved online and brick-and-mortar retail pharmacies to dispense abortion pills to patients who have a prescription – regardless of their location.
Organs on demand: Gene-editing animal organs, 3D printing organs and growing organs in a lab to save human lives
WHO: eGenesis, Makana Therapeutics, United Therapeutics
WHEN: 10 to 15 years
More than 106,000 people in the US are waiting for an organ transplant, and science is stepping in to create organs to help save lives.
In 2019, researchers in Germany created transparent human organs using a new technology that could pave the way to print three-dimensional body parts such as kidneys for transplants.
Scientists led by Ali Erturk at Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich have developed a technique that uses a solvent to make organs such as the brain and kidneys transparent.
Electric vehicles are here to stay, and Tesla is leading the pack. The world’s roads saw about 16.5 million EVs cruising in 2022, triple the amount in 2018, and global sales were up by 75 percent from the same period in 2022
However, Tesla has competition. MIT notes Hyundai’s IONIQ 5 that was announced last year
Lasers then scan the organ in a microscope that allows researchers to capture the entire structure, including the blood vessels and every single cell in its specific location.
Another method is genetically modifying animal organs, which the world witnessed in January 2022.
Terminal heart failure sufferer David Bennett underwent the nine-hour experimental procedure at the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore, where he received a heart transplant from a genetically-modified pig.
Surgeons used a heart taken from a pig that had undergone gene editing to make it less likely that his body’s immune system would reject the organ.
The inevitable EV: Electric vehicles have been available for decades. Now they’ve finally become mainstream
WHO: BYD, Hyundai, Tesla, Volkswagen
WHEN: Now
Electric vehicles have made waves in the automobile industry, as many nations are phasing out gas-powered cars for greener versions.
The world’s roads saw about 16.5 million EVs cruising in 2022, triple the amount in 2018, and global sales were up by 75 percent from the same period in 2022.
The largest player is Elon Musk’s Tesla, which has held most of the market since it sold the first Model S sedan in 2012.
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is set to change what we know about the cosmos and is revealing what the early universe looked like. Here is an image of a 13.5-billion-year-old galaxy
However, Tesla has been joined by Volkswagen and Hyundai, among others like Ford, which are planning to overtake Musk’s company.
Herbert Diess, the current chairman of the board of management of Volkswagen Group, said the German company is looking to surpass Tesla by 2025.
VW sold 452,900 EVs worldwide in 2021, while Tesla sold 930,422.
Hyundai recently gained popularity with its IONIQ 5 for $72,000, which was named Carsales Car of the Year for 2021.
The IONIQ 5 is the first electric vehicle to win the Carsales prize since the Tesla Model S was named Car of the Year in 2015 and was one of three fully electric cars on the Carsales 2021 shortlist of 12 models.
James Webb Space Telescope: A marvel of precision engineering that could revolutionize our view of the early universe
WHO: NASA, European Space Agency, Canadian Space Agency, Space Telescope Science Institute
WHEN: Now
The world is also seeing never-before-images of stars forming in deep space
The James Webb Space Telescope, launched December 25, 2021, spent the last year wowing the world with amazing never-before-seen pictures of the cosmos.
Developed by NASA, the $10 billion telescope is a collaboration between the US, Europe and Canada.
Webb is the world’s largest and most powerful orbital space telescope, capable of peering back 100 to 200 million years after the big bang.
The orbiting infrared observatory is designed to be about 100 times more powerful than its predecessor, the Hubble Space Telescope.
NASA likes to think of James Webb as a successor to Hubble rather than a replacement.
Webb has shared images of galaxies that formed 13.5 billion years ago, just 300 million years after the big bang, the first photos of stars formed and recently identified a previously unknown planet.
Ancient DNA analysis: Provides scientists with a time machine to see the past
WHO: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, David Reich Lab at Harvard
WHEN: Now
Ancient DNA analysis provides scientists with a trip back in time to learn about early humans. Scientists analyzed DNA from 4,000-year-old mummies found in China and found the individuals were from a local tribe, not visitors from the West as previously believed
Ernie Lapointe (right) made headlines in 2021 when his DNA matched the famed Native American Sitting Bull (left)
A man made headlines in 2021 when his DNA matched the famed Native American Sitting Bull.
University of Cambridge-led experts demonstrated the technique known as ‘autosomal DNA’ that collected DNA from a strand of hair taken from Sitting Bull and pulled DNA from it.
The team then matched the DNA with Ernie Lapointe, confirming he is the great-grandson of the Native American leader.
Going back in time, scientists analyzed DNA from 4,000-year-old mummies found in China and found the individuals were from a local tribe, not visitors from the West as previously believed.
The team compared the mummies’ DNA with samples from five individuals who lived further north in the Dzungarian Basin about 5,000 years ago, making them the oldest known human remains in the region.
Battery recycling: New ways to recover the crucial metals in batteries could make electric vehicles more affordable
WHO: CATL, Umicore, Redwood Materials, Li-Cycle, Cirba
WHEN: Now
Battery recycling is seeing a boom as the world moves away from gas-powered vehicles and toward zero-emission versions
Batteries used in electric cars, laptops and other electronics have long been tossed in landfills because there is no method for recycling.
Battery recycling is an effective way of reprocessing and reusing batteries to reduce wastage.
It prevents the potential threat surfacing from dumping heavy metals and toxic chemicals into the environment.
In 2022, the market value shot up to $15.81 billion and is predicted to reach a whopping $36 billion in 2028.
CATL announced a $5 billion battery recycling center in China last year to recycle EV batteries for chemicals such as cobalt and lithium.
Umicore has a plant in Belgium with an annual capacity of 7,000 lithium-ion batteries and battery production scrap, equivalent to 35,000 EV batteries.
The plant started operations in 2011 to treat portable electronic batteries and the first generations of EV batteries.
The recovered metals will be delivered in battery-grade quality at the end of the Umicore recycling process, allowing them to be re-circulated into the production of new Li-ion batteries.
These facilities are also likely to appear worldwide as nations are adopting EVs to combat climate change, making zero-emission cars cheaper because there would be more materials available.