To re-gift, or not to re-gift? This study takes a business-like approach to the question: “The Gifts We Keep on Giving: Documenting and Destigmatizing the Regifting Taboo,” Gabrielle S. Adams (London Business School), Francis J. Flynn, (Stanford Graduate School of Business), Michael I. Norton [pictured here], (Harvard Business School), In press, Psychological Science. (Thanks to […]
Year: 2012
End of the World (or not)
Scenario [1] The World has recently ended. So you won’t be reading this. Scenario [2] The End of the World has been greatly exaggerated. Thus you still have the opportunity to consider : ‘Corporeal remains : vulnerability, proximity and living-on after the end of the world’ Environment and planning A., 40 (2), 2008, pp. 423-445. […]
Mouthfeel Attributes of Liquid Foods by a Posthumus Funnel
This may be the most significant scientific paper of the past two years that concerns the Posthumus Funnel: “Improvement of the Prediction of Mouthfeel Attributes of Liquid Foods by a Posthumus Funnel,” Alexander Kutter, Jaswinder Pal Singh, Cornelia Rauh and Antonio Delgado, Journal of Texture Studies, vol. 42 (2011) 217–227.
The simulator that keeps on giving
The BBC reports: “‘Vomiting Larry’ is busy being sick over and over again in an experiment to test just how far the winter vomiting bug can travel when it makes you ill. Lucky for Larry, he is not a constantly retching human – but a simulated vomiting system that shows the virus can travel an impressive […]