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Hair as sensory skin: sensitive bodies, ritual shaving, and the maintenance of bodily boundaries in Hindu Suriname De la pilosité comme peau sensorielle : corps sensibles, rasage rituel et maintien des limites du corps chez les hindous du Surinam

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 32, Issue 1, Page 269-292, March 2026.
Hair is an integral part of the skin's interface and has sensory capacity. It actively contributes to processes of bodily materialization and facilitates transactional exchange with other social actors and environments, particularly regarding energies and vibrations that can be perceived as subtle matter.
Sinah Theres Kloß
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Optical Identification of the Shortest-period Spider Pulsar System M71E

The Astrophysical Journal, 2023
M71E is a spider pulsar (i.e., a millisecond pulsar with a tight binary companion) with the shortest known orbital period of P = 53.3 minutes, which was discovered by Pan et al.
Zhuokai Liu, Subo Dong
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Jealous Men but Evil Women: The Double Standard in Cases of Domestic Homicide [PDF]

, 2014
In 1989, Sarah Thornton killed her abusive husband with a knife, after years of abuse and threats to her daughter. She was convicted of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment.
Gavin, Helen
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Archiving Futurity Within the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women's Crisis

American Anthropologist, Volume 128, Issue 1, Page 85-96, March 2026.
ABSTRACT In this article, we examine how settler colonization and gendered violence against Indigenous women are remembered and recorded in two archival registers: 18th‐century records from the Massachusetts Archives Collection (MAC) and a 21st‐century corpus of posts using the hashtag MMIW (Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women) on X (formerly Twitter)
Lindsay Martel Montgomery, Heather Pezzarossi, Jennifer P. Byram   +2 more
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Envenomation caused by Latrodectus geometricus in São Paulo state, Brazil: a case report

Journal of Venomous Animals and Toxins including Tropical Diseases, 2009
Widow spiders (Latrodectus spp.), also known as "black widows", have a worldwide distribution and can cause latrodectism. To the best of our knowledge, in Brazil, only one case of Latrodectus geometricus (Koch, 1841) envenomation in a human has been ...
Ramb Almeida, RS Ferreira Junior, CR Chaves, B Barraviera   +3 more
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Nanostructured Protein Surfaces Inspired by Spider Silk

Advanced Materials, Volume 37, Issue 51, December 23, 2025.
Harnessing recombinant spider silk technology, bioengineered spidroin variants enable the creation of functionalized nanostructured coatings with tunable affinity for specific targets, supporting a broad range of applications ‐ from antifouling surfaces and targeted drug delivery to advanced cell therapies and precision bio‐patterning via lithography ...
Martin Humenik, Thomas Scheibel
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Venomous Spiders of the Southeastern US: An Unexpected Threat

Journal of the Georgia Public Health Association, 2015
Background: Environmental health specialists recommend that residents of the Southeastern US, including Georgia, have the ability to identify the three venomous spiders indigenous to this area.
Alex Collins, Oreta Samples
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Spider Invasion Across the Galaxy [PDF]

Journal of Astronomy and Space Sciences, 2014
The nature of the exotic stellar corpses which reincarnate by consuming their companion is reviewed. Apart from sucking life from their partners, they are actually eating the doomed companions away by their deadly and powerful particle/radiation beams.
Chung-Yue Hui
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Black and brown widow spider bites in South Africa: A series of 45 cases [PDF]

, 2017
Cases of black widow (Latrodectus indistinctus) and brown widow (L. geometricus) spider bites referred to the Tygerberg Pharmacology and' Toxicology Consultation Centre from the summer of 1987/88 to the summer of 1991/92 were entered into this series. Of
Müller, G.J.
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The Deconversion of Harriet Martineau: An Emotional History of Unbelief

Journal of Religious History, Volume 49, Issue 4, Page 455-476, December 2025.
Conceptualising the ‘Victorian crisis of faith’ as a phenomenon fuelled by wider intellectual forces can only take us so far in our understanding of it. The loss of faith of many contemporaries did not merely entail an intellectual volte‐face, but also an affective impact. Scholarly accounts have been primarily written by privileging the role of ideas,
Petros Spanou
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