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Buried underpants and a new definition of kissing win 2026 Ig Nobel prizes (www.nature.com)
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[–] CombatWombat@feddit.online 4 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

I don’t feel a desire to kiss Brindle or any member of their team after reading this

Brindle’s team steamily defined kissing as a “non-agonistic interaction involving directed, intraspecific, oral–oral contact with some movement of the lips/mouthparts and no food transfer”.