Scientist: Donuts Helped Shape Our Culture

Paul Mullins is a serious scholar who has studied heavy issues like racism and materialism, but now he has turned his attention to a really weighty subject: donuts. Give that man a calorie-rich donut, smothered with colorful chunks of sugar, and he's immediately in hog heaven. For some time now, Mullins, an Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis anthropologist and archaeologist, has been sitting around donut shops, gulping down those sweets and talking to other customers about why...Full Story