Posts Tagged ‘science’

The longest dry spell ever

Alcohol Dehydrogenase

Think prohibition in the USA for 13 years was bad? Try going dry for 310 million years.

Beer in spaaaace!

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Beer is space is science fiction, but it may soon be a reality!

Wine scanner used for TSA explosives screening

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It’s a porno-scanner for your wine, and the TSA might start using it at your airport.

Beer makes you more attractive… to mosquitoes

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Science has shown mosquitoes prefer some people to others. Now I know why they prefer me.

Party animals – Do animals get drunk?

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Humans as a species have a long and storied history of alcohol consumption.  Most human behaviors have animal corollaries in the natural world—especially with our closest relatives, the primates—so do animals get drunk and stupid too or is this a unique human trait?

 

Beer bottles vs. the sun

Beer bottles vs. the sun

You've probably seen the commercials advertising Samuel Adams lager talking about their brown bottles.  The claim is their brown bottles protect their beer better than the competition in clear or green bottles.  Their claim is partially true.

 

Russian swig swine flu (H1N1) non-cure

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Russian soccer supporting organization, VOB, has a "cure" for the H1N1 virus.

The Apple DWI defense

The Apple DWI defense

Here's a DWI defense I've never heard of.  Apples.

 

Will a drink a day kill you?

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Today's research says one drink a day will extend your life.  Yesterday's research says one drink a day will kill you.  What we have here is a paradox.

 

The unbearable lightness of hop chemistry

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Everything you didn't know you wanted to know about hops