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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 Uncommon Courses is an occasional series from The Conversation...

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 The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work.

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...

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