Tag: Christmas
Merry Jewish Christmas: How Chinese food and the movies became a...
Samira Mehta, University of Colorado Boulder
There is a meme that circulates every holiday season, an image of a...
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,...
EXPLORING NATURE
What makes a true Santa is inside – and comes with...
Christina Hymer, University of Tennessee
When you picture Santa Claus, a white, bearded, overweight and jolly man who dashes...
