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		<title>Ig Nobel Celebration Event in Cambridge, Massachusetts, September 24</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2026 01:38:18 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Please join us for BOST-Ig, AN IG NOBEL CELEBRATION IN CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS, USA — Thursday, September 24, 2026, at the Swiss Consulate, Swissnex, 420 Broadway, Cambridge, 6:00-7:00 pm, then light refreshments (doors open 5:30). WHAT: A celebration of the new Ig Nobel Prize winners, who received their prizes on September 3 in  Zurich, Switzerland. at the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>SUNDAY — Ig Nobel Face-to-Face in Tokyo</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[This Sunday, September 20, 2026, the Miraikan science museum in Tokyo will host, for the fourth consecutive year, a special Ig Nobel Face-to-Face event. Four Ig Nobel Prize winners and a Nobel laureate will ask each other about their work&#8230; and answer questions from the audience. Paper airplanes will fill the air. Kiyoshi Furusawa will [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Why Are or Aren&#8217;t There Maps in Novels?</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[If you meet a person who reads novels, and who has mentioned to you that some of those novels include a map, consider mentioning to to that person that they can read a study about the question of why there are or are not maps in some novels. The study is: &#8220;Castles, Battlefields, and Continents: [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The nature of the Igs, noted in Nature</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Nature magazine published a nice editorial about the Ig Nobel Prizes, on September 8, 2026. You might enjoy reading it. And here&#8217;s a quick video presentation by Nature journalist Maren Hunsberger: You might also enjoy dipping into some of the other press accounts of this year&#8217;s Ig Nobel Prize ceremony and the new winners. HISTORICAL [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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