Icky Cutesy Research Review
Research reports that are icky and/or cutesy
Compiled by Alice Shirrell Kaswell, AIR staff
Icky, Cutesy 1
"Pathology in the Hundred Acre Wood: A Neurodevelopmental Perspective on A.A. Milne," Sarah E. Shea, Kevin Gordon, Ann Hawkins, Janet Kawchuk, and Donna Smith, Canadian Medical Association Journal, vol. 163, no. 12, December 12, 2000, pp. 1557-9. (Thanks to Colin Wilkinson and numerous other readers for bringing this to our attention.) The treacly entire is on-line at <http://www.cma.ca/cmaj/vol-163/issue-12/1557.htm>. The authors, who are at Dalhousie University, effuse that:
Generations of readers of A.A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh stories have enjoyed these seemingly benign tales. However, perspectives change with time, and it is clear to our group of modern neurodevelopmentalists that these are in fact stories of Seriously Troubled Individuals, many of whom meet DSM-IV3 criteria for significant disorders.
Icky, Cutesy 2
Cooking
With Pooh: Yummy Tummy Cookie Cutter Treats: Cookie Cutters (The New
Adventures of Winnie the Pooh), Marlene Brown, Ed Murrieta, and Gretchen
Van Pelt, Mouseworks Publishers, 1995, 24 pages. (Thanks to Mike Slind
for bringing this to our attention.)
Cutesy, Not Icky
"A Cute Characterization of Acute Triangles," H.J. Seiffert,
American Mathematical Monthly, vol. 107, no. 5, May 2000, p. 464.
(Thanks to Mel Wilson for bringing this to our attention.)
Icky, Not Cutesy
"Does Prune Whip Reduce Laxative Usage in a Skilled Nursing Facility?"
B. Patel, U. Singh, I. Kleyn, et al., Journal
of the American Geriatrics Society, v. 48, no. 8, August 2000, p.
177. (Thanks to Julie Parsonnet for bringing this to our attention.)
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