The saying “We can’t eat money” begs disagreement from British vegans and vegetarians. A report in The Guardian says: Bank of England urged to make new £5 note vegan-friendly More than 50,000 sign petition to cease use of tallow in production process, saying it is unacceptable to vegans and vegetarians… NEXT POST: Did those kids drool way […]
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The pleasure of being nasty
Dr. Klaus Abbink (pictured) of Monash Business School has (along with colleague Prof. Dr. Abdolkarim Sadrieh) experimentally examined the question of pleasure derived from deliberate nastiness – specifically with regard to joy-of-destruction. “In the joy-of-destruction game that we introduce, players can burn each other’s money, but we have removed all conventional reasons to do so. […]
Can you spot wealthy New Yorkers by their ‘R” sounds?
Is it possible to gauge how wealthy a New Yorker might be just by the way they pronounce their /r/ s? A new paper in the Journal of English Linguistics investigates whether variations of rhoticity [viz. the prevalence, or lack of, the /r/ sound in speech] in wedding-consultants’ speech could be correlated with the amount […]
Comedy movies and risky stock trading – linked?
Attention stock-market followers – have you considered whether weekend comedy-movie attendance, and investment in risky stock-market assets on the following Monday might be linked? This question has been the subject of an in-depth investigation by Gabriele M. Lepori, (formerly) Assistant Professor of Finance at Copenhagen Business School, Denmark (now at Keele Management School, UK). His […]