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In Brownies: Over 100 Scrumptious Recipes for More Kinds of Brownies Than You Ever Dreamed Of, Linda Burum wrote that Dutch farm wives introduced bar cookies to America and that their ease of preparation accounted for their quick rise in popularity.
One Big Table Molly O’Neill 2010
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Unlike complex layered cakes, tarts, molded desserts, or even delicate cookies, brownies are, wrote Burum, “so easy to whip up that a child could make them.”
One Big Table Molly O’Neill 2010
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Maritime Governor of Cumberland Bay when the British squadron attacked her; two allied battleships enter the bay at Enos and with shells destroy the Turkish camp there; Russian squadron bombards Kara-Burum, inside the Tchatalja lines; British steamer Ptarmigan is sunk by a
New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 3, June, 1915 April-September, 1915 Various
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Burum found that the participants who had been told the person behind them was doing a different task - namely, identifying sounds rather than looking at pictures - did a better job of remembering the pictures.
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But Burum leans toward a different explanation, which is that sharing an experience with someone is inherently distracting, because it compels us to expend energy on imagining what the other person is going through and how they're reacting to it.
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The results, which Burum cautions are preliminary, are now part of a paper on "the coexperiencing mind" that was recently presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology conference.
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In the paper, Burum offers two possible theories to explain what she and Gilbert found in the study.
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"People tend to engage quite automatically with thinking about the minds of other people," Burum said in an interview.
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That study, led by graduate student Bethany Burum, started with a simple experiment: Burum placed two individuals in a room and had them spend a few minutes getting to know each other.
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Prosecutors allege Colonies 'co-managing partner Jeff Burum offered Biane, Postmus, Kirk and Erwin bribes of $100,000 each, which were funneled into the accounts of political action committees controlled by the four or members of their staffs within a year of the settlement.
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