January 4th, 2008 4:02 PM
Researchers at Penn State have discovered that male fruit flies exhibit disinhibited courtship behavior toward other males.
Wild-type males typically court females but not males; however, upon daily administration of ethanol, they exhibited active intermale courtship, which represents a novel type of behavioral disinhibition. The ethanol-treated males also developed behavioral sensitization, a form of plasticity associated with addiction, since their intermale courtship activity was progressively increased with additional ethanol experience.
In other words, alcohol makes male fruit flies horny and gay. Wow. WTF?
Tags: alcohol, Science
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January 2nd, 2008 4:03 PM
I was just watching Family Feud WWE Special, and the question posed was: Give me another word for alcohol. Are you smarter than the WWE Superstars who could only get three out of six of the right answers? And are you smarter than the WWE Divas who couldn’t steal?
Click here to see the answers
Booze 64
Liquor 15
Wine 4
Drink 4
Hooch 4
Beer 3
Wrong answers: stimulant, aphrodisiac, suds, sauce
Tags: alcohol, family feud, game show
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July 11th, 2007 1:50 PM
According to Queensland Brain Institute director Professor Perry Bartlett, drinking alcohol does not kill brain cells. If anything, it helps the brain by reducing the risk of dementia in old age.
Huzzah!
Tags: alcohol, brain cells, myth, neurons
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Anybody who hates dogs and loves whiskey can’t be all bad.
—W. C. Fields
