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		<title>Disposition of a Mixed Meal by the Conscious Dog</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 07:29:48 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Some people have long wondered about the disposition of a mixed meal by the conscious dog. One obvious place to begin scratching that intellectual itch is the study: &#8220;Disposition of a Mixed Meal by the Conscious Dog,&#8221; M.C. Moore, M.J. Pagliassotti, L.L. Swift, J. Asher, J. Murrell, D. Neal, and A.D. Cherrington, American Journal of [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Boomerangs, bananas and tampon manuals</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Michelle Spierings wrote about the recent Ig Nobel show in Leiden, The Netherlands. A behavioral biologist at the Institute of Biology Leiden and the University of Vienna, Austria, Spierings had a starring role in the show. Her essay appears in the July 5, 2026 issue of Bionieuws. Here is a machine translation from the original [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Maybe-Impressive Words, and Words about Coffee-Liking</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[If you savor jargon-enriched descriptions of iffy much-touted computer-involved approaches to using small amounts of data about things that are difficult to measure and interpret, this study may be of special interest: &#8220;AI-driven prediction of consumer liking of coffee from sensory data,&#8221; Michael Gunning, Maite Pilar Serantes Laforgue, Jean-Xavier Guinard, and Ilias Tagkopoulos, npc Science [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>June issue of the newsletter (mini-AIR), with Hammer, Hammer, Hammer</title>
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