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  June 27, 2024

  A queer messiah of the desert: Frank Herbert’s Dune and the Kwisatz Haderach’s challenge to the gender binary

  Literature, Sociology

  Dune, Gender Studies, Queer Studies

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  February 16, 2024

  The Ruins of Tolkien: Archaeology in the world of The Lord of the Rings

  Archaeology, History, Literature, Mythology

  Archaeology, Lord of the Rings

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  September 17, 2023

  The magic of transformation: a comparative analysis of alchemy in Harry Potter and its real-world chemistry roots

  Chemistry, Cinema, Literature, Mythology

  Alchemy, Chemistry, Fantastic Beasts, Harry Potter

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  October 13, 2022

  Cicadas in Japanese video games and anime

  Anime & Manga, Biology, Japan Studies, Literature

  Ecology, Entomology, Fate Grand Order, Higurashi, Pokémon, Taxonomy, Zoology

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  December 28, 2021

  The Astolfo Effect: the popularity of Fate/Grand Order characters in comparison to their real counterparts

  Anime & Manga, History, Japan Studies, Literature, Mythology, Video Games

  Fate Franchise, Fate Grand Order

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  November 30, 2020

  Cultural lepidopterology in modern Japan: butterflies as spiritual insects in the Akihabara Culture

  Anime & Manga, Biology, Cinema, Japan Studies, Literature, Video Games

  Ecology, Lepidopterology, Visual Novels, Zoology

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  November 9, 2020

  My light novel’s title can’t be this short! The evolution of light novel titles in another world!!!

  Anime & Manga, Japan Studies, Literature

  Japan, Light Novels, Literature

• 

  November 13, 2019

  Vampire Apocalypse Calculator

  Horror, Literature, Simulation

  Game Theory, System dynamics, Vampires

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  October 17, 2018

  Douglas Adams and the world’s largest, fattest and least-able-to-fly parrot

  Biology, Literature, Zoology

  Behaviour, Douglas Adams, Ecology, Ornithology, Zoology
• September 4, 2018

  What is the answer to Life, the Universe and Everything?

  Cinema, Literature, Philosophy

  Science Fiction, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy