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Tag: Texas

Professorial Pizza Deliveries

November 25, 2013 Martin Gardiner

You can probably count on the fingers of fewer than two hands the number of university professors who, as part of their research, have worked for 18 months as pizza delivery operatives. But that is exactly what either* professor Patrick T. Kinkade or* professor Michael A. Katovich of the Sociology and Anthropology Dept. at Texas […]

Arts and Science, Research Newsdelivery, driver, ethnography, pizza, pizzas, Texas

Oklahoma and Texas Look Almost Like a Cooking Pan

June 19, 2010 Stephen Drew

Xingjian Liu, Tinghua Ai, and Yaolin of the Liu [of the Department of Geography, Texas State University-San Marcos, Texas School of Resources and Environmental Science, and Wuhan University] begin their article “Oklahoma and Texas Look Almost Like a Cooking Pan” [AIR 16:2] by saying: In this paper, we apply spatial analytical tool to address the […]

Research Newsgeography, Oklahoma, panhandle, Texas

Maggots, Magott’s, and meat

May 9, 2010 Marc Abrahams

Maggots love fresh meat (as demonstrated by Genevieve Mount in her 2005 California State Science Fair project). If you love fresh meat, presumably you will love Magott’s. Magott’s is a grocery store in San Antonio, Texas. Investigator Neil Gussman visited the store, and took this photo of the sign atop it:

Arts and Sciencemaggots, meat, Texas
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