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  1. For the prize-winning paper, see Zampini and Spence (2004). The ‘Ig Nobel’ Prize, awarded yearly at Harvard University, recognizes ‘achievements that first make people laugh, and then make them think’ in the fields of science, medicine and technology (Improbable Research, 2012).

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Cole, J. A neuroscientific perspective on medieval intimacies. Postmedieval 3, 461–466 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1057/pmed.2012.27

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