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Lasers can make your beer taste better — here's how
If you're hopping from bar to bar this St. Patrick's Day, make sure to pay extra special attention to your glass.Commercial brewers put a ton of time and research into ensuring their canned and bottled...
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Drinking booze on a date has a very different effect on men and women
When women drink alcohol on dates, it makes them feel more intimacy, while it makes the men they are with feel less intimacy.This is according to a recent study published in the Journal of Personal...
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Ignition lock laws are reducing the rate of drunk-driving deaths
Reuters Health - States that require convicted drunk drivers to install ignition interlock devices in their cars had a 15 percent drop in alcohol-related crash deaths compared to states without these...
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Tweeting while drunk? This computer software may be watching you
Hey there, drunk tweeters. We see what you did there — and so do scientists.A team of researchers led by Nabil Hossain at the University of Rochester have developed software that can scan Twitter for...
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The wine industry is preparing for a major change
Wine grapes are one of the most valuable horticultural crops in the world, a globally important industry with commercial vineyards on six continents and all 50 U.S. states. Like many crops, these...
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11 common myths about the brain that need to die
We know surprisingly little about one of the most important organs in our body — the brain. Nevertheless, the world is filled with dozens of ideas about why we think the way we do.Here are 11 of the...
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What alcohol does to your body and brain
We know different drugs make us experience the world around us in very different ways — and their after-effects are often nowhere near as pleasant as the immediate results they produce. Alcohol, which...
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Tequila isn't just for wild nights out — here's why you should add it to your...
Tequila gets a bad rap. Most times you’ll hear dudes complaining about the Mexican-based liquor causing overnight blackouts, stomach issues, serious hangovers, and basically every other upsetting,...
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A widespread belief about moderate drinking may be based on flawed research
Dust off your mocktail recipes: The widespread belief that one or two alcoholic drinks per day is associated with living longer rests on flawed research, concludes an analysis of 87...
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A US bar chain will pay interns $12,000 to spend 4 months traveling the world...
World of Beer, a chain of craft-beer taverns across the US, is offering the ideal summer job for anyone partial to a brew or two: a four-month internship traveling the world, tasting beer, and posting...
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8 foods and drinks that look vegetarian but may use animal products
Vegetarian and vegan drinkers, rejoice: By the end of this year, Guinness has said it will no longer use fish bladders to make its 256-year-old stout.At issue is isinglass, a gelatin-like substance...
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These are the words you're most likely to tweet while drunk
If you're one of the thousands of New Yorkers who has, on occasion, sent out a tweet after a couple of cocktails, this algorithm may be able to pick up on your antics.Researchers from the University of...
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Surprising ways that alcohol affects your body and brain
We know different drugs make us experience the world around us in very different ways — and their after effects are often nowhere near as pleasant as the immediate results they produce. Alcohol, which...
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Britain is the 3rd-biggest nanny state in the EU
It may not be George Orwell's "1984" just yet, but Britain already ranks in the top 3 in the EU for government interference, according to a report on Thursday.The Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA)...
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An algorithm has mapped the drunkest hotspots in New York City
Drunk tweeters, beware: Computers are watching you.A team of researchers led by Nabil Hossain at the University of Rochester have developed an algorithm that can pick up your tipsily tweeted messages...
View ArticleArianna Huffington says these are the things you should never do before bed
Huffington Post editor-in-chief and "The Sleep Revolution" author Arianna Huffington runs down the things you shouldn't do before bed. It's important to get a good night's sleep, so cut these things...
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Corona's parent company says everyone is buying more expensive alcohol
Americans are clamoring for expensive alcohol, at least according to Constellation Brands CEO Rob Sands.Constellation, which owns brands such as Corona, Ballast Point, and Svedka Vodka, is seeing huge...
View ArticleIt's National Beer Day — here are 8 ways to open a beer without a bottle opener
We've all been there. Parched. Ready to enjoy a refreshing beer only to find there's not a bottle opener around. Don't panic. From repurposing a laptop charger to commandeering a file cabinet, we were...
View ArticleIt's National Beer Day — we found out which American cheap beer is the best
What's the best light beer to drink at the ball game or a party with friends? You may have a favorite, but what is the definitive choice? In a blind taste test, we had people try Bud Light, Coors...
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A new book challenges the ingrained idea that there are 2 'types' of...
To be truly addicted to a drug, the conventional wisdom goes, you have to be psychologically and physically hooked.In other words, you have to both crave the drug and feel physically sick — for...
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