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Welcome to the Science Podcast for September 22nd, 2017.

I'm Sarah Crespi.

In this week's show, Carl Hines-Campert talks with Andrew Wagner about cosmic rays from a galaxy far, far away.

And Catherine Mattisick is here with a roundup of stories from our online news site.

Now we have Catherine Mattisick, an editor for our online daily news site.

She's here to talk about some recent stories.

Welcome, Catherine.

Hi, Sarah.

First up, we have a story on animal hordes. Some people collect life-sized, incredibly realistic baby dolls, other certain types of China, and some collect everything, filling their houses with food, newspaper, and more. And those people can be considered to have a mental disorder, hoarding.

What kind of disorder is this, Catherine? Where does it fit in the pantheon of psychiatric illness?

First of all, let me compliment you on your animal hordes intro as opposed to Viking hordes. Exactly. But when it comes to this as a disorder, people who hoard,

they just can't stop collecting. If you saw the desks of some of our newsroom colleagues, you might

know what I mean. But hoarding disorder is really no joke for the people who have it. They have an

ongoing and really hard to control urge to keep accumulating stuff.

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