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[23]Cuteness as Soft Power

   [24]April 29, 2024 [25]Marc Abrahams

   Cuteness can be powerful on a national level and also internationally, according
   to this study: "Soft Power: ;SCute Culture', A Persuasive Strategy in Japanese
   Advertising," Oana-Maria Bîrlea, TRAMES, A Journal Of The Humanities And Social
   Sciences, 2023, pp. 311-324. The author [pictured here] explains: "The article
   addresses the ways in which soft power is used [...]

   [26]Arts and Science, [27]Research News[28]cute, [29]Japan, [30]power, [31]soft

[32]Low-gravity blood spatter, Thinking inside the box, Stick to Fruit, Genital glow

   [33]April 24, 2024 [34]Marc Abrahams

   This week's Feedback column (that I write) in New Scientist magazine has four
   segments. Here are bits of each of them: Blood spatter on high -- "Be prepared!"
   This enduring motto of the Scout movement will come to mind for many readers of a
   paper called "Bloodstain pattern dynamics in microgravity: Observations of a
   pilot study in the [...]

   [35]Arts and Science, [36]Extra-Improbable columns, [37]Research News[38]blood
   spatter, [39]fruit, [40]genital glow, [41]inside the box, [42]low gravity,
   [43]metal

[44]Unexpected 23-fold depths of an autopsy

   [45]April 22, 2024 [46]Marc Abrahams

   "I once performed an autopsy on a deceased pedestrian who had been wearing 23
   layers of clothing. It took us longer to undress him than to perform the
   autopsy". --from the book Risking Life for Death, by Ryan Blumenthal (Jonathan
   Ball Publishers, Johannesburg, 2023). Here is a brief video of the author
   describing a different [...]

   [47]Arts and Science[48]Autopsy, [49]clothing, [50]forensic

[51]Boxing, Walls, Surfing value, Car jeers and cheers, Dead ant repellant

   [52]April 18, 2024 [53]Marc Abrahams

   This week's Feedback column (that I write) in New Scientist magazine has five
   segments. Here are bits of each of them: Boxing: thinking outside -- From time to
   time, the sport of boxing changes its rules. But for the most part, it still
   requires that each participant in a match be both human and alive. (Exceptions do
   occasionally [...]

   [54]Arts and Science, [55]Extra-Improbable columns, [56]Research News

[57]PowerPoint Co-Inventor's Appreciation of Chicken Chicken Chicken

   [58]April 15, 2024 [59]Marc Abrahams

   Robert Gaskins, co-inventor or PowerPoint, highlights Doug Zongker`s "Chicken
   Chicken Chicken" as one of his favorite ever PowerPoint presentations. This a
   videorecording of Doug Zongker's talk in the Improbable Research session at the
   February 2008 AAAS meeting, in San Francisco:

   [60]Arts and Science[61]chicken, [62]powerpoint

[63]Dog tail wagging, Donald Duck dam jubilee, Anti-covid tea-gargling, Urine on acorns

   [64]April 11, 2024 [65]Marc Abrahams

   This week's Feedback column (that I write) in New Scientist magazine has four
   segments. Here are bits of each of them: Chasing the tale -- Silvia Leonetti and
   colleagues in the Netherlands, Italy, Austria, the US and Denmark don't quite
   explain why dogs wag their tails, but they do explain that it is hard to explain.
   In a paper [...]

   [66]Arts and Science, [67]Extra-Improbable columns, [68]Research News[69]acorns,
   [70]covid, [71]dam, [72]dog, [73]donald Duck, [74]gargling, [75]tail, [76]tea,
   [77]Urine, [78]waggin

[79]Coffee-Smell-Enhanced Coffee Smell

   [80]April 11, 2024 [81]Marc Abrahams

   Coffee smell can be enhanced in reliability and intensity, suggests this study,
   by adding coffee smell from used coffee: "Improvement of Robusta coffee aroma by
   modulating flavor precursors in the green coffee bean with enzymatically treated
   spent coffee grounds: A circular approach," Cyril Moccand, Aditya Daniel
   Manchala, Jean-Luc Sauvageat, Anthony Lima, Yvette Fleury Rey, and [...]

   [82]Arts and Science, [83]Research News[84]Coffee, [85]grounds, [86]smell

[87]Ig Nobel events in Denmark -- April 9 and 10

   [88]April 7, 2024 [89]Marc Abrahams

   The Ig Nobel EuroTour comes to Denmark this week, with 2 events: Tuesday, April
   9, 2024, 7 pm -- Aarhus University (and specially livestreamed to more than 300
   theaters, libraries and other venues, some also offering dinner, throughout the
   kingdom of Denmark) Wednesday, April 10, 7 pm -- Copenhagen University, as part
   of the Vin [...]

   [90]Arts and Science, [91]Ig Nobel, [92]Research News

[93]Tea paving, Solar cells like razor blades, Alligator bellows, Ants for your
arteries

   [94]April 3, 2024 [95]Marc Abrahams

   This week's Feedback column (that I write) in New Scientist magazine has four
   segments. Here are bits of each of them: Paved with good tea -- What to do with
   all the waste from preparing zillions of cups of tea? Researchers in Malaysia
   propose converting some of it into infrastructure.Mohammad Al Biajawi at
   University Malaysia Pahang Al-Sultan Abdullah and [...]

   [96]Arts and Science, [97]Extra-Improbable columns, [98]Research News

[99]Hooking the Scientific Community on Thorny-Headed Worms

   [100]April 1, 2024 [101]Marc Abrahams

   Info and maybe advice for admirers of thorny-headed worms: "Hooking the
   Scientific Community on Thorny-Headed Worms: Interesting and Exciting Facts,
   Knowledge Gaps and Perspectives for Research Directions on Acanthocephala,"
   Marie-Jeanne Perrot-Minnot, Camille-Sophie Cozzarolo, Omar Amin, Daniel Barcák,
   Alexandre Bauer, Vlatka Filipovic Marijic, Martín García-Varela, et al.,
   Parasite, vol. 30 2023.

   [102]Arts and Science, [103]Research News[104]Worms

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