Tag: Christmas
Why ‘A Charlie Brown Christmas’ almost didn’t air − and why...
Stephen Lind, University of Southern California
It’s hard to imagine a holiday season without “A Charlie Brown Christmas.” The...
The science of gift wrapping explains why sloppy is better
Erick M. Mas, Vanderbilt University
They say appearances can be deceiving. In the case of gift giving, they might...
Real or artificial? A forestry scientist explains how to choose the...
Every year, Americans buy somewhere between 35 million and 50 million Christmas trees, and many more pull an artificial tree out of...
How cinnamon, nutmeg and ginger became the scents of winter holidays,...
Serina DeSalvio, Texas A&M University
Regardless of how you celebrate end-of-year holidays, food is probably central to your winter...
How the Christmas pudding, with ingredients taken from the colonies, became...
Troy Bickham, Texas A&M University
As an American living in Britain in the 1990s, my first exposure to Christmas...
Oh, Christmas tree: The economics of the US holiday tree industry
Jay L. Zagorsky, Boston University and Patrick Abouchalache, Boston University
Christmas today is a big business, and one part...
Real or artificial? A forestry scientist explains how to choose the...
Curtis VanderSchaaf, Mississippi State University
Every year, Americans buy somewhere between 35 million and 50 million Christmas trees,...
Hanukkah celebrations have changed dramatically − but the same is true...
Samira Mehta, University of Colorado Boulder
Hanukkah is not the Jewish Christmas. Articles and op-eds in newspapers remind readers...
EXPLORING NATURE
Climate change is making plants less nutritious − that could already...
Ellen Welti, Smithsonian Institution
More than one-third of all animals on Earth, from beetles to cows to elephants, depend...
