“Shine,” a cancer specialty store and neighborhood mercantile encourages people to “Shop for a Cause” this holiday season. Owned and operated by Seattle Cancer Care Alliance (SCCA), the 2,000-square-foot store includes cancer specialty items as well as kitchenware, jewelry, games and novelties for all ages.
Given recent extreme weather events – the summer’s brutal heat and subsequent drought, followed by Superstorm Sandy’s disastrous path – newly green-conscious consumers may be wondering how to lessen their carbon footprint this holiday season. Plant biologist Clint Springer, Ph.D., assistant professor of biology at Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia, says that buying a real Christmas tree may not solve the world’s climate ills, but it is a step in the right direction.
To most children, listening to Santa read a story and taking a photo with him is all part of the holiday merriment each year. However, for some toddlers and young kids, this outing can turn into a frightful experience with ol’ Saint Nick and stress parents out. Dr. Martin Antony, a leading expert on anxiety and a psychology professor at Ryerson University, gives parents and their children tips how to make a visit with Santa fun for everyone.
A taste for apples, a September 1978 issue of Popular Mechanics and a bumper crop of fruit combined to create the holiday tradition of making apple cider for two South Dakota families and their friends.
Tips on booking holiday travel, packing and avoiding airport stress.
Turkey for Breakfast: What percentage of Americans want to eat these leftovers for breakfast the next morning?
Jessica Rennells, a climatologist with the Northeast Regional Climate Center at Cornell University, offers a look at your chances for enjoying – or driving through – a wet or white Thanksgiving holiday.
Justine Vanden Heuvel is a an assistant professor in the Department of Horticulture at Cornell University and a former cranberry specialist at the UMass Cranberry Station in East Wareham, Mass. She comments on the challenges and triumphs of the 2012 cranberry season.
With visions of sugar plums dancing through the air, before you know it, old St. Nick will soon be here. As the holiday season swings into high gear, Ryerson University will be rolling out its annual expert tip sheets on topics from surviving office parties to how parents help their kids overcome their fears of Santa.
Today’s pastry chefs are going beyond carrot cake, zucchini bread, and sweet potato pie when it comes to making desserts with vegetables. In the November issue of Food Technology magazine published by the Institute of Food Technologists (IFT), Associate Editor Karen Nachay writes about the way dessert is evolving from the traditional to the unexpected.
Not only is TV not endangered, but it also has a unifying social impact on the nuclear family across the country. This is the main conclusion of a cross-Canada study—Are the Kids All Right?—on the television viewing habits of families with at least one child aged between 9 and 12 years.
With the alleged Mayan apocalypse looming on Dec. 21, Barry Vacker, an associate professor of media studies and production at Temple University’s School of Media and Communication, has decided to spend what might be our last few months of existence examining why end-of-world storylines run rampant in Hollywood and pop culture.
A design Derek Koch created in his apartment at Rowan University has garnered worldwide attention—and helped raise more than $300,000, so far, for Hurricane Sandy relief initiatives.
The "Beautiful You" App, launched this month by Saint Mary's College students, promotes positive body image and a favorable life outlook. Available on iTunes for $0.99, "Beautiful You" is a great app for women to have to keep New Year's resolutions.
The upcoming holiday season brings with it the annual gaze upon religious displays – and the legal issues that come with them. “The Supreme Court’s approach to public religious displays under the Establishment Clause has been less than clear,” says John Inazu, JD, expert on religion and the constitution and professor of law at Washington University in St. Louis.“Some commentators have described it as the ‘three plastic animals rule’ –a Christian nativity scene on public property passes muster if it is accompanied by a sufficient combination of Rudolph, Frosty, and their friends.” Inazu says that future litigation will likely press against this line-drawing, but even apparent victories for religious liberty may come at a significant cost.
Singer Lesley Gore (“It’s My Party,” “You Don’t Own Me”) spent the summer quietly riding the 6 train to the South Bronx to help give voice to a group of kids who often find themselves voiceless in a noisy city. The kids, ages 5 to 20, who are part of South Bronx-based Health People and its Kids-Helping-Kids mentoring program, beat the heat by rehearsing their powerful rap, “Pull Your Pants Up,” with the pop legend for its iTunes and YouTube debut.
After a devastating natural disaster such as Hurricane Sandy destroys their houses, people need a place to call home temporarily while they begin to sort through problems ranging from a lack of drinking water to long lines for gas to shattered nerves.
Jeremy Olson, a student at UNC Charlotte’s College of Computing and Informatics (CCI), and his mobile app design company, Tapity, have hit another homerun with its newest app, Languages. Following on the successful release of Grades 2, the company’s inaugural app, Languages has climbed to the fifth-highest selling app in Apple’s App Store, only a day after being released.
Tailgating is a fun American tradition where food is prepared and enjoyed near the back of a car or truck, often in the parking lot of a sporting, music or other large event. However, food-borne illness is no fun. Careful planning and onsite precautions can help ensure your food is safe to eat.
New national poll conducted by American University/GfK Research reveals high school and college students overwhelmingly prefer Obama over Romney. Gender gap in place even among young voters.
When an expected crowd of 40,000 music festival goers descends on a historic area in downtown Starkville Friday [Nov. 2] for Bulldog Bash, one start-up company headed by an MSU alumnus is hoping to make social media history as it launches a new site called YeHive.
Ribbon-cutting for multimedia center opening will feature appearances by Ryan Seacrest, Selena Gomez and Radio Disney’s “Next Big Thing” winner Shealeigh
In a new book, IU professor Mark Dueze takes on the prevailing notion of his peers in media and communications research think -- that the media and its related devices have an effect on us and that the more we use them, the more they shape our lives.
Fantasy football creates software jobs and helps brand individual athletes while appealing to gamers who like to take a gamble.
Study finds media messages describing paranormal investigators as "scientific" makes people more likely to "believe."
Chris Anderson, Cornell associate professor, in the School of Hotel Administration, offers fresh data on how travel review web sites, the online reputation of hotels and hotel-industry elasticity are forming a 2013 tidal wave of change. He talks on this new research at a journalists-only luncheon on Monday, Nov. 12, 2012 from 12:30 to 2 p.m., at Times Square in Manhattan.
Miniature-sized candies are great alternatives for Halloween, but could scare up high calorie and carbohydrate counts if parents don’t monitor how many their children eat, warn pediatricians from Harris Health System. While the amount of calories and carbohydrates per treat is relatively low compared to regular-sized candies, too much of the smaller treats could be just as bad.
To figure out how to talk about politics without getting in virtual—or actual—fist fights, Wake Forest Divinity School professor Michelle Voss Roberts says we should take our cues from a surprising place – religion.
From black cats bringing good fortune to super-sweet pumpkin crops and the history of horrifying words and imagery, several Cornell University experts are available to help you find new ways to explore this ancient holiday.
What does a religion known for teaching non-violence have to do with martial arts disciplines designed to cripple or kill? A great deal, it turns out.
“Technology and Human Flourishing” will be the theme of the 2012 Baylor Symposium on Faith and Culture, hosted by the Institute for Faith and Learning, on Thursday, Oct. 25, through Saturday, Oct. 27.
Perhaps one of the most ambitious book-to-movie translations to date, Warner Brothers’ "Cloud Atlas," based on British author David Mitchell’s 2004 award-winning novel of the same name, opens on Oct.26. Narrative theory and time expert Jo Alyson Parker, Ph.D., professor of English at Saint Joseph's University in Philadelphia, has done an in-depth study of the book, and is available to comment on the challenges the filmmakers faced, given the novel's complex structure.
Wake Forest University professor and author, Eric Wilson, explores the reasons adults have made Halloween an $8 billion dollar holiday.
This week, the social media world reached two milestones: Facebook announced it reached 1 billion active users, and pop icon Lady Gaga became the first to amass 30 million followers on Twitter. Jeff Hancock, a professor of communication and of computer and information science, sees good news in the rise of both.
Daniel Schwarz, Cornell professor of English, discusses his book, “Endtimes: Crises and Turmoil at the New York Times, 1999-2009” on Wednesday, Oct. 10 at the New York Public Library, at 40th St. and Fifth Ave. (Sixth Floor). The talk begins at 6:30 p.m.
With the Presidential election quickly approaching, social media sites such as Facebook are filled with political posturing and comments. A Southeastern Communication professor discusses the results of an unscientific poll of friends and associates who commonly post on political topics or candidates.
No kidding: The history of the first anchorman may have more to do with Will Ferrell than people might think, according to new research by a journalism historian at Indiana University. While Ferrell is best known for playing Ron Burgundy in the 2004 comedy "Anchorman," he also famously parodied "Jeopardy" game show host Alex Trebek. Research by Mike Conway, an associate professor of journalism at IU, has found that the first "anchor man" was John Cameron Swayze, then a regular on the 1948 quiz show, "Who Said That?"
Traditionally high passenger volumes and the possibilities of bad weather are realities for holiday travel. Travelers on U.S. airlines usually find that ticket prices and overall costs are higher. Dean Headley, co-author of the national Airline Quality Rating from Wichita State University, says while industry airline performance quality has improved each year since 2007, the travel experience has become more stressful and uncertain, especially around the end-of-the-year holidays.
Daniel R. Schwarz, Cornell professor of English, reflects on the death of Arthur Ochs Sulzberger (1926-2012), who was the New York Times’ publisher from 1963-92. Schwarz wrote the recently published book, “Endtimes? Crises and Turmoil at the New York Times, 1999-2009” from Excelsior Editions of SUNY Press.
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