This week’s Feedback column (that I write) in New Scientist magazine has four segments. Here are bits of each of them: Berate the refs — There is new evidence that it can pay to scream at referees in sports stadiums. That evidence appears in the study ‘Verbal aggressions against Major League Baseball umpires affect their decision making”… Your ice […]
Tag: Ice Cream
Should Ice Cream Melt, Legally?
How hard is it to determine whether ice cream should melt, in the context of international law? Edwin Vermulst attempts to lick that problem, in this lengthy exposition: “EC Customs Classification Rules: Should Ice Cream Melt?” Edwin A. Vermulst [pictured here], Michigan Journal of International Law, vol. 15, 1993, pp. 1241-1327.
Research about Ice Cream Sticks
“Ice Cream Stick Research” (read the article free, here online) is a featured article in the special ICE CREAM issue (volume 28, number 1) of the magazine, Annals of Improbable Research.
Cold Shrinkage
Sometimes things shrink, and sometimes this is a problem, as reported in this 1997 study: “Ice Cream Shrinkage: A Problem for the Ice Cream Industry,” U.K. Dubey and C.H. White, Journal of Dairy Science, vol. 80, no. 12, 1997, pp. 3439-3444. The authors, at Mississippi State University, report: When ice cream is shipped from one […]


