The January issue of mini-AIR just went out. It?s stuffed full of new professor-professors, and touches on each of the following topics: Pasta Optimization Project; Professor-Professor Quintet; Melvin Melvin search;? Tongue-shaped food; The Metrically Perfect Professor; Exhibitionists’ Progress Competition; Brain/Cocaine and Vicious Walks.(If you would like to have mini-AIR automatically sent to your email box […]
Month: January 2007
Cheese and chips
Criminal gangs in Italy have found a lucrative new way of earning money – hijacking lorries containing wheels of Parmesan cheese…. To counter the thefts, producers and the Italian farmers’ union, Coldiretti, are experimenting with microchips hidden in the crusts of the cheese, which means they are more easily identifiable. So says a December 6, […]
Meaty vertical integration
Vertical Integration is a business concept: combining processes, factories, or even entire companies that together constitute different stages of the manufacturing/marketing/sales process for a particular industry. Season Shot, Inc., a perhaps apocryphal company in Bloomington, Minnesota, combines some industrial elements that, traditionally, were separate. Their industry: hunting and cooking. As they explain: Season Shot is […]
Bra belletrist
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