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The aim of this short note is to report on recent progresses in the study of the Lavrentiev phenomenon. At first, the author reports two one-dimensional examples of integral functionals involving first order derivatives, in which the Lavrentiev phenomenon appears. He also reports a one-dimensional example of integral functionals involving second order derivatives, as well as lower order ones, with an integrand independent of the space variable, presenting the Lavrentiev phenomenon. Then he shows a two dimensional variational problem where infima depend continuously, and in a nonconstant way, on the exponent \(p\) of the first order Sobolev spaces \(W^{1,p}\) where they are taken. Eventually, he ends the note with a discussion on the widespreadness of the Lavrentiev phenomenon. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0921.00022].