Seinfeld Was Right. Don’t Double Dip That Chip. “Last year the food microbiologist’s undergraduate students examined the effects of double dipping using volunteers, wheat crackers and several sample dips. They found that three to six double dips transferred about 10,000 bacteria from an eater’s mouth to the remaining dip sample.”

Study Says Many Studies Are Bad. “Which is perhaps an overly snarky way of saying: Many of these studies are getting dangerously inane. And insulting. And actually harmful. Because if you believe many of these deceptive factoids that fill our newspapers and magazines and universities, if you take them as they’re meant to be taken, as helpful guidelines for behavior or even as some sort of serious demarcation of human understanding, well, we are doomed indeed.”

Matryoshkas. “Matryoshkas or Russian Nesting Doll designs are everywhere. We can’t get enough of these cute Russian Dolls. Matryoshkas are popping up as design elements in everything from textiles and stationary to tech toys and evites.”

An Inconvenient Truth: Conversation Hearts Go Enviro!  “You know going green and environmentally conscious has hit the big time when it starts to affect our classic candy traditions. Necco’s Sweethearts conversation hearts have different themed slogans for each year, usually based on what is happening in American culture. Last year they appealed to our love of animals, this year it’s all about the weather with sayings including ‘Cloud Nine’ ‘Heat Wave’ ‘Get My Drift’ and ‘Melt my Heart.’”