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Legacy Of Alcohol, The Ham-Fist Way:
Over time, we’ve tried to sing the praises of alcohol; from Beer BS to Hangover bro-science.
Along the way, we’ve discovered some strange contradictions, like: Thirst is often mistaken for Hunger, & Mars500 finding a great reason to control your salt-intake.
So in the spirit of Weird, !SCIENCE! brings us another “WTF, Mother Nature?!!”
That contradiction starts with our bizarre need to eat after Animal House-level symphonies of drinking…
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How these guys weren’t THE MOST POPULAR DUDES IN ALL OF ANCIENT HISTORY escapes me.
George Armelagos and Mark Nelson found something awesome in the bones of ancient Nubians they examined. -Thorough, pervasive, long-term evidence of tetracycline intake!
-WTF?…
Basically, at one point, I was getting ~all my water from a highly-filtered source.
I soon found myself having very sensitive teeth.
I’d heard something awhile back about how even though it’s sterile and clean, that actually drinking Distilled or Deionized Water is really bad for you.
And on another forum through some weird coincidence, it turns out a guy was killing his plants by watering them with distilled water…
As if it weren’t bad enough, according to CMU grad student Sarah Pressman, it turns out Loneliness could affect your immune system negatively.
It is disturbing that this study neglected to count the number of inverted keg-stands or fraternity indoctrination rituals in the lives of the subjects. If those don’t…
