Dr. Keir Waddington, reader in History and Head of History and Welsh History at the Cardiff School of History, Archaeology and Religion, Cardiff University, Wales, is in the process of examining the cultural position of the sausage. His recent paper : The Dangerous Sausage: Diet, Meat and Disease in Victorian and Edwardian Britain (Cultural and […]
The Power of Whining
There’s a new breakthrough in the attempt to appreciate whining: “Whines, cries, and motherese: Their relative power to distract,” Rosemarie Sokol Chang and Nicholas S. Thompson, Journal of Social, Evolutionary, and Cultural Psychology, 2011, 5(2), 131-141. The authors, at SUNY New Paltz and Clark University, explain: “Distraction was measured in terms of number of subtraction […]
Cat color and allergies?
Investigator G.J. Reynolds writes: Here’s a nice little set of papers on how the color of a cat affects its owners allergies. First, a 2000 abstract in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunologyestablishing that owners of lighter-colored cats have fewer symptoms than owners of darker-colored cats [one of the authors, Clifford Bassett, is pictured here in lieu […]
Troll comment of the day: Corpses & Lepers
Today’s Troll Comment of the Day is: L.E. Troll, “Comments on ‘Corpses, Lepers, and Menstruating Women‘”, Feminism & Psychology, vol. 5, no. 4, November 1995, pp. 468-472, doi:10.1177/0959353595054005.