Not many people like to buy whole albums anymore, and that's partially because digital music is focused on SINGLES . . . and since we entered the digital age, a lot of albums are just rushed out with a ton of FILLER.
I gotta admit, sometimes I feel a little miserly when it comes to money. I guess I just want to be frugal, but from time to time I wish I didn't have to think about it so much.
Every day here on our stations, I’m thinking about different ways to interact with you. I know this whole radio thing isn’t just me out there talking to myself. So it’s very important to me that I get your input on stuff! That’s what the weekly Enquiring Minds surveys are all about, picking your brain and seeing what you think about stuff.
One thing people ask me about my job here at the station is whether or not I get to meet famous people. Sure, I've met a few here and there, but nothing was too remarkable.
Sometimes you can convince yourself that a pizza is going to taste good just by the way it looks. A study by the Institute of Food Technologists say that what people like to see is a golden cheese pie with both dark toasted-cheese patches and glistening oil in other spots.
The eyes have it...when it comes to successful marketing of cereal brands to adults and kids. A recent study by Cornell University’s Food and Brand Lab and the Yale Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity reveals consumers are 16 percent more likely to trust a brand of cereal if the character on the box is staring them directly in the eyes.
Every week I try to think of a different question about something I've read in the news about things that we're thinking about. Then I ask you about your opinion, and we talk about it on the air.
As much as people gripe about not having enough spare time, the opposite appears to be true, if the American Time Use Survey by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) is to be believed.