The key to explaining a strange idea, someone somewhere may once have said, is to talk really, really fast. Here is a new example. An explanation is given, in video form, at two speeds. A lengthy text explanation is published in the medical study “Oreo Cookie Treatment Lowers LDL Cholesterol More Than High-Intensity Statin therapy […]
The research project “Economic Consequences of Restrictions on the Usage of Cookies” has received funding to proceed. The work is being done at Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, under the direction of Prof. Dr. Berndt Skiera [pictured here]. The university explains: So far, there exists very little empirical knowledge on the trade-off between […]
Some medical schools may be selecting or rejecting faculty members because those individuals do or do not offer cookies to their students. That is a possible conclusion one might draw, after reading this new study done by faculty members: “Availability of cookies during an academic course session affects evaluation of teaching,” Michael Hessler, Daniel M […]
Girl Scout cookies, familiar to most residents of the USA, represent more than tasty treats, suggests this Ph.D. thesis: “Smart Cookies: The Gendered Spaces of Labor, Citizenship, and Nationalism in the Girl Scout Cookie Sale,” Denise Marie Goerisch, Ph.D. dissertation in Geography, San Diego State University and University of California, Santa Barbara, September, 2013. The author […]
