Thanksgiving dinner's carbon footprint: A state-by-state comparison
The environmental impact of your Thanksgiving dinner depends on where the meal is prepared.
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Home Field Advantage Often Overestimated In College Football
This year, many of college football's biggest rivalry games take place over Thanksgiving weekend. A win earns bragging rights for the year. Visiting teams are often thought to be at a considerable disadvantage, especially ...
Mathematics
Dec 1, 2009
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Thanksgiving table chemistry
What's going on at Thanksgiving dinner? Sure, Uncle Al is asleep in front of the football game and the kids are running around the table rather than sitting at it, but just how in the name of inane parade play-by-play did ...
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Nov 23, 2010
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In College Football, Home Field Advantage Often Overestimated
This year, many of college football's biggest rivalry games take place over Thanksgiving weekend. A win earns bragging rights for the year. Visiting teams are often thought to be at a considerable disadvantage, especially ...
Mathematics
Nov 24, 2009
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Cilantro ingredient can remove foul odor of 'chitlins'
With chitlins about to make their annual appearance on Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year's Day menus, scientists have good news for millions of people who love that delicacy of down-home southern cooking, but hate the ...
Other
Nov 14, 2010
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Researchers document another cost of 2016 election: Shorter Thanksgiving visits
Scientists at UCLA and Washington State University are seeing America's polarization play out at the family dinner table, with Thanksgiving visits that were 30 to 50 minutes shorter after the presidential election of 2016.
Social Sciences
May 31, 2018
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Thanksgiving travel woes? There's an app for that
Traveling by plane, train or automobile can be a headache. Mixing in Thanksgiving can make it a throbbing migraine. Technology provides some pain relief in the form of apps to let you know which roads are clogged, what gate ...
Software
Nov 26, 2014
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How drought-tolerant grasses came to be
If you eat bread stuffing or grain-fed turkey this Thanksgiving, give thanks to the grasses — a family of plants that includes wheat, oats, corn and rice. Some grasses, such as corn and sugar cane, have evolved a unique ...
Ecology
Nov 23, 2011
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Today's domestic turkeys are genetically distinct from wild ancestors, researchers find
(Phys.org)—No Thanksgiving dinner is complete without a succulent roasted turkey. The U.S. Department of Agriculture estimates that consumers cook and eat more than 45 million turkeys every Thanksgiving. Very few Americans, ...
Plants & Animals
Nov 20, 2012
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Tightwads and spendthrifts: A Black Friday tradition
Every year about this time, on Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving that traditionally begins the holiday shopping season, early-morning consumers stand in long lines eager to purchase some sought after prize. From the ...
Social Sciences
Nov 17, 2010
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