Tag: Spirits
A bottle of scotch recently sold for $2.7 million – what’s...
Hovig Tchalian, University of Southern California
When a rare bottle of Scotch whisky sold for US$2.7 million in November...
To better understand addiction, students in this course take a close...
Debra J. Rosenthal, John Carroll University
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Halloween’s celebration of mingling with the dead has roots in ancient...
Tok Thompson, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
As Halloween approaches, people get ready to celebrate the...
Beer and spirits have more detrimental effects on the waistline and...
Brittany Larsen, Iowa State University
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The magnificent history of the maligned and misunderstood fruitcake
Jeffrey Miller, Colorado State University
Nothing says Christmas quite like a fruitcake – or, at the very least, a...
3 questions about vodka, answered
Jeffrey Miller, Colorado State University
Towards the end of Ian Fleming’s spy novel “Dr. No,” James Bond orders a vodka dry martini – “Shaken and...
Why we love robotic dogs, puppets and dolls
S. Brent Rodriguez-Plate, Hamilton College
There’s a lot of hype around the release of Sony’s latest robotic dog. It’s called “aibo,” and is promoted as...
3 questions about tequila, answered
Jeffrey Miller, Colorado State University
In less than a decade, worldwide sales of tequila have doubled, while sales of premium and ultra-premium brands have shot...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
