Easter By The Numbers

Via: DegreeSearch.org In the United States, we eat enough candy at Easter to put us into a sugar coma. Delicious milk chocolate eggs, hollow chocolate bunnies, Peeps, jelly beans and more. In 2011, $131 was spent on Easter candy per family, or $14.7 billion dollars total. 90% of Americans plan to buy Easter candy this year, whether or not they celebrate the religious aspect of […] Read more »

Ten Fun Facts About Peeps

Via: DegreeSearch.org Whether you love them or hate them, Peeps marshmallow candies are very popular — especially at Easter. For those that enjoy eating Peeps, competitive eating challenges and Peeps recipes abound. But there’s much more to Peeps than just eating them. College students and professors perform scientific experiments on Peeps, artists create Peeps dioramas, and bored kids throw Peeps in the microwave to see what happens. What do you think? Are Peeps […] Read more »

Brains Vs Wins – March Madness 2013

If academics have anything to do with March Madness, then the Duke Blue Devils take the tournament for the second year in a row. DegreeSearch.org tallied the basketball player grad rates and win rates over the last 6 years and came up with a Student Athlete Score for each school. The winner? Duke University. The two highest scoring schools in the tournament were Duke and […] Read more »