Marshmallows Make Mellow Topics

The Smithsonian Institution’s Third Annual Conference on Stuff focused on marshmallows. Some of the lecture topics:

* The Marshmallow’s Influence on Generational Bonding in Southern Cuisine.

* It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Easter: Fetal Foam Finds a Form.

* The Marshmallow in Midwestern Male Courtship Rituals.

* Cybermallows: Surfing Through Internet Marsh.

* The Moon Pie Millennium and Goo Goo Cluster Transgressions.

* It’s a Marshmallow World And Other Horrors of American Popular Song.

* Anagenesis or Cladogenesis? An initial survey of the morphology, variation and origins of the marshmallow with special reference to the dwarfed lineage of the species.

* Cosmology and the Marshmallow Chick--Steady-state theory vs. the Big Bang: A Hands-on Experience.