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		<title>&#8220;Old study no much talk&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2026 07:26:51 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#8220;This work look for Soret and Dufour thing on MHD flow for micropolar fluid on sheet with hole stretch, also see hot from electric and warm from move, which old study no much talk. These hot and mix change speed, hot, spin, and mix of fluid in layer. The big math changes to small math [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Insect Sex Organ Switcheroo — New Episode in NHK&#8217;s Ig Nobel Prize Winners TV Series</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Insect Sex Intersections&#8221; is a new episode (the seventh episode) in the series &#8220;Laugh Then Think: Japan&#8217;s Offbeat Science&#8221; broadcast by the Japanese TV network NHK. You can watch it online. The series looks closely and lovingly at some of Japan&#8217;s many Ig Nobel Prize winners. The producers summarize the new episode this way: &#8220;An [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Preparing for Bloodshed in Space, With Pigs</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Marc Abrahams]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 07:28:21 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[“Be Prepared!” cries the motto of several organizations. It could also be the motto of everyone connected with this study: &#8220;Extraterrestrial regolith is hemostatic and potentially suitable for hemorrhage control in space,&#8221; Nabil Ali-Mohamad, Ting-Hsuan Wang, Lih Jiin Juang, Nuoya Peng, Massimo F. Cau, Kevin Cannon, and Christian J. Kastrup, Research and Practice in Thrombosis [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Ig Nobel Show in LEIDEN Thursday, June 11</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Join us this Thursday afternoon in  Leiden, the Netherlands. The show features Marc Abrahams and these Ig Nobel Prize winners: Mirjam Tuk (Medicine Prize, 2011): decision making with a full and empty bladder Antoine Deblais (Chemistry Prize, 2024): using chromatography to separate drunk and sober worms Ida Sabelis (Medicine Prize, 2000): sex in an MRI [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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