Tag: DRINKING

Apparently, something positive came out humanity's insane urge to produce and proliferate nuclear arms over the past century. Carbon-dating has been used by researchers in myriad scientific endeavors, and it turns out that nuclear testing has made the process that much more effective, according to Scientific American. Or, more effective at determining the age of an expensive bottle of whisky, ...

Yes, it's happened before, but that doesn't mean seeing drunken escapades caught on Google StreetView is any less funny. The latest terrific image comes to us from London, where a man can be seen yakking all over a sidewalk. As Gizmodo points out, by way of some readers, the man wearing the antlers signifies that this little incident occurred during a stag party, otherwise known as a bachelor ...

Conventional wisdom tells us that, in our direst economic times, the alcohol business does pretty well. Possibly responding to this phenomenon, and hoping worried citizenry won't crawl into a whiskey bottle, the federal government has now launched the Rethinking Drinking Web site, the Wall Street Journal reports. Operated by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), ...

We've heard that there are some folks who want to drink alcohol, but, for some reason or another, don't find drinking to be quite fun enough as it is. We're not sure who those people are, but they'll surely jump for joy when they lay eyes on the Russian Roulette Beer Bong. The glorified, mechanized funnel asks a drinker to fill its reservoir with beer, place the tube in his or her mouth, spin a ...

Here's a bit of information that probably isn't too shocking -- the louder the bar, the more people drink. Now there is hard scientific evidence to back up what to many probably just seemed like common sense. According to a study being released in the journal 'Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research,' an increase in the decibel level of music within the bar directly correlates to an ...

Have you ever wondered if a restaurant was serving you an expensive vintage wine or just some crap they found behind the bar? Since you're not an expert, you can use a new electronic tongue that detects grape variety and age. Like a human tongue's ability to discern different tastes, the gadget -- still in prototype-mode -- uses six sensors to measure attributes like sugar, acidity, and alcohol ...

Any frequent bar-goer knows that the way to get yourself noticed by an overworked bartender is by having some combination of a good personality and a big tip. While some women may have an easer time flaunting their, um, personalities to get the attention of a busy barman, others aren't so lucky. And, of course, that big tip will only get noticed on subsequent trips to the bar. To dodge the lines, ...