There’s news, though a few years old, about low-pressure popcorn popping: “The Effects of Popping Popcorn Under Reduced Pressure,” Paul Quinn [pictured here] and Amanda Cooper, Bulletin of the American Physical Society, Volume 53, Number 2 (poster at the 2008 APS March Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana). The authors, at Kutztown University, report: “In our experiments, we […]
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‘A Video Lesson on the Price of Movie Popcorn’
Richard B. McKenzie is the Walter B. Gerken Professor Emeritus of Enterprise and Society at The Paul Merage School of Business, University of California, Irvine. Here he is presenting ‘A Video Lesson on the Price of Movie Popcorn’ Also see: ‘Why Popcorn Costs So Much at the Movies’ by Richard B. McKenzie and Gordon Tullock, […]
Pop psychology: Skinner and Redenbacher
Two psychology tidbits, both involving Skinner and Redenbacher: First: Robin Abrahams, our psychology editor, notes that behaviorism psychologist B.F. Skinner and popcorn magnate Orville Redenbacher resembled each other [see photos here]. [NOTE: Can pigeons can be trained to distinguish photographs of one from photographs of the other? The experiment has not yet been done.] Second: A […]
When Is a Lung Abscess Like Popcorn?
“When Is a Lung Abscess Like Popcorn?” asks Dr. Mark Crislip, in a Medscape Today report on December 29, 2010. (Thanks to investigator Edwin Spector for bringing this to our attention.) Dr. Crislip, musing about an odor associated with a particular patient, muses: The patient is a 17-year-old girl who had been sick for 1 […]