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Feedback: Hamsters tackle energy crisis

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12 June 2013

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Hamsters tackle energy crisis

IN A Feedback item on scam conference invitations last year (18 August 2012), marine biologist Phil Clapham told us he got so tired of receiving these that in response he started submitting ridiculous paper titles under his dog’s name, Cleo V Borzoi. Now he tells us about his dog’s “latest triumph”.

Last month, Phil received an email inviting him “to be a Speaker at Forum 4: Ocean Energy, at the 3rd New Energy Forum, which is one of the most crucial parallel meetings of EAFE-2013, during September 26-28, 2013, at Xi’an Qujiang International…

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