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● Painfully fashionable : The consequences of wearing pointy shoes in medieval England [study]

● The consequences of inconsequentialities [study]

● The use of woodcutting ants as characters in Brazilian Nativity-scenes [study]

● How Much Older Do You Get When a Wrinkle Appears on Your Face? [study]

● Toilet graffiti studies 1731 – 2007

● ALL CAPS in legal documents – superstitious? [study]

● Nobel Prize winners live (a bit) longer [study]

● Recent progress in Pokémon GO studies

● Boredom at the cinema – an exploration [study]

● Wine bottle bottom dimple enigma

● Authors: can boozing alleviate writer’s cramp? [study]

● DFMB (Deep Fried Mars® Bars) research update

● Recent progress in mermaid (and merfolk) studies

● The function of evil laughter in popular culture (new study)

● Recent Progress in ‘Ratatouille’ Studies

● Recovering Fire-Gazing as a Moving-Image Technology (study)

● “A psychoanalytic analysis of the superglue phenomenon” – in new book ‘Perspectives on Everyday Life’

● Recent progress in ‘My Little Pony’ studies

● Sausage Party : a vegan critique

● The semiotics of lamppost stickers in Birmingham (new study)

● Recent progress in Wonder Woman studies

● Noseworthy on Contagion Effects of Celebrity Memorabilia (study)

● Recent progress in Kung Fu Panda studies

● ‘JoyGuzzling’ – should one refrain? (new study)

● Cuteness Engineering (2017 book)

● Does leg length play a determinative role for success in ballet?

● Seriously Silly Design Fictions (study)

● On the nature of creepiness (study)

● Can trends in baby’s names foreshadow major social events? (new study)

● Is the face a window to the soul? (study)

● Do Pimples Pay? Apparently they do (new study)

● Shouting and Cursing while Driving (a new study)

● Phantom Phone Sensations (update)

● Airline Upgrade Guilt – an examination

● Future fashion cycles of Korean pants – a study

● The Hemline and The Economy – examining an urban legend

● Computer games: Should they be taken seriously or unseriously?

● Disrupting inconspicuous consumption in laundry routines (studies)

● Towards perfecting men’s necktie lengths

● Railway vibrations – part 1 – ‘Graunching’.

● Don’t mess with Bond

● Concept <=> “TV as Lover”

● Railway vibrations – part 2 ‘Jiggling’

● Seated Performances

● Smiling : what’s it for?

● Smiling all the way

● Lobsters given voice

● Hawai’ian toilet paper

● Exploring Karaoke anxiety

● “Can I have a lick o’ your lollipop?” [Sugar pigs]

● Barbie® in academia (1997-2011)

● The Aestheticization of Restrooms

● Tourist maps unfolded in Berlin

● Lipstick names — a textual analysis

● Indefinite articles

● Top shelf (Playboy centerfold) research

● Who was the Walrus? As the case may be.

● Who was the Walrus? As the case may be.

● (Re)creating multiple masculinities: Crocket’s Ultimate Frisbee

● Roundabout research (Laurier #2 of 4)

● “Towards a Theory of Santa”

● Attractions of the hip wiggle / Moves like Jagger in Finland

● Sandcastles in academia (part 2 – the point)

● Infertility in Star Trek

● Raincoat Non-Functionality in NZ

● The iPod — a shield, weapon, or both?

● Lost Cats, Considered Academically (Laurier #3 of 4)

● Teenagers doing nothing – the upside

● Attractions of the hip wiggle / Moves like Jagger in Finland

● Smooth bodywork in cars and women

● Sandcastles in academia (part 3 – building and mobilities)

● Mick Jagger’s 1969 ‘frock’ – a Fustanella or not?

● Why do people say where they are during mobile phone calls? (Laurier #1 of 4)

● Virtual Muscularity

● Sandcastles in academia (part 1 – Transience)

● Quantifying ballet dancers’ leg-lift angles

● The Vegetarian’s Pet Dilemma

● Dr. Bacon’s “‘fatter’ future” feminist theology paper

● The Testicular Fortitude of Urbexers

● Introducing ‘Critical Studies in Men’s Fashion’

● Bunkerology

● “The Place of Golf in U.S. Imperialism” [study]

● Hawaiian shirts under the spotlight of rubbish theory

● ‘Dog Stories’ (their value for journalists)

● ‘Pigness’ (Cinematic and Televisual) – a thesis

● Why do we dig the beach (with bucket and spades)?

● A Gentleman’s Posterior — fashion considerations

● ‘Pigness’ (Cinematic and Televisual) – a thesis

● Gumboot Dancing studies (in French)

● When rats meet the legal system: Vermin trials reappraised

● ‘Hmmm, sooo shiny, sooo nice’ – but why?

● Revolving doors – an examination (Laurier #4 of 4)

● April Fools: Justified or Not Justified?

● The creative art of Chinese pickled vegetables

● The smell of macaroni [part 3]

● ‘On Being Annoyed’

● Smelling bodies at the office (corporeal porosity)

● Catastrophic Snow Globes – who’s shaking who?

● Housework affects fertility (in Finland)

● Social Media + BS

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