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		<title>A Tooth, Not an Animal [A Short Long Story in One Abstract]</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2026 07:58:27 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Much confusion arose as to what a thing was. Marc Furió and colleagues did some detective work, then reported what they think they found out: &#8220;No place for Pliocene tourists with Ockham’s razor in the pocket: Comment on Crespo et al. [doi.org/10.1016/j.palwor.2023.03.006] (2023),&#8221; Marc Furió, Raef Minwer-Barakat, and Antonio García-Alix, Palaeoworld, vol. 33, no. 6, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Twelve-Gorilla Nettle Experiment</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 08:43:25 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Some humans eat nettles. So do some gorillas. This report looks at twelve gorillas and a small portion of their gastronomic experience with nettles: &#8220;An experimental study of nettle feeding in captive gorillas,&#8221; Claudio Tennie, Daniela Hedwig, Josep Call, and Michael Tomasello, American Journal of Primatology: Official Journal of the American Society of Primatologists, vol. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The special FORCES issue of the magazine (Improbable Research)</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[The special FORCES issue (volume 32, number 3, May/June 2026) of the magazine Annals of Improbable Research has gone go out to subscribers. Even if you are not a subscriber you can read several of its articles online free, for looks at many aspects of digestion and/or indigestion: StressSlipping and Slapping* If a Falling Bullet* [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Each Worm to His Taste: A Man and His Nettle</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[When a person is hungry, what is a too-tempting food? This study, in addition to reporting a medical incident, begins to try to answer that question: &#8220;Each Worm to His Taste: Some Prefer to Eat Nettles – A Giant Gastric Phytobezoar,&#8221; Mahir Gachabayov, Abakar Abdullaev, Petr Mityushin, and Timur Gilyazov, Clinical Case Reports, vol. 4, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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