Tag: Spirits
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...
Inside the sacred danger of Thailand’s caves
Andrew Alan Johnson, Princeton University
After almost three weeks in the dark, 12 Thai boys and their coach, were rescued from a cave deep underneath...
Inside the sacred danger of Thailand’s caves
Andrew Alan Johnson, Princeton University
For the past two weeks, a global audience has been transfixed by the drama of 12 boys and their coach...
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Feeling anxious makes it harder to stop feeling anxious
By Adam Heenan, Queen's University, Ontario
Anxious people tend to perceive their world in a more threatening way. That is, the more anxious a person...
