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We know that beer was first testified 5,000 years ago in the Old World, in the ancient Sumer (now southern Iraq) and Egypt. But the ancient Native Americans did not stay dry till the arrival of the Europeans. A new research, presented at the Materials Research Society meeting in Boston, revealed that Pueblo Indians b... |
3 January 2008
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Ok, so, people are constantly saying that Google is turning into Orwell's Big Brother, that it follows them around and even in the privacy of their home they cannot be free to surf the web for anything, because the Mountain View based company is spying via the cookie it sends whenever you are using the search en... |
12 December 2007
14:21 GMT |
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Beer is as old as human civilization and we have not decided yet if it's good (as least for the heart and skin) or bad. 5,000 years ago, Sumerians, Babylonians and Egyptians already had over 19 varieties of beer. From Middle East, Europeans adopted this booze and at the beginning of the first millennium it had a... |
10 December 2007
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Perhaps you cannot imagine life without chocolate. And many women give up sex for chocolate easily. Now we know when it was discovered: over 3,000 years ago, five centuries earlier than previously thought. A new research published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences shows that chocolate was an "acciden... |
13 November 2007
04:05 GMT |
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Those guys hanging out at the pub with their buddies till morning do not avoid the company of their wives, they are just rehydrating. The Spanish got it right: a new research made at the Granada University points that after a game of football or rugby, a beer is more efficient in rehydrating the body than water, even... |
6 November 2007
05:18 GMT |
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After small quantities of alcohol have been considered to improve heart health for such a long time, recent researches show that this also can increase the risk of breast cancer. And one of the largest individual researches focusing on the effects of alcohol reveals that it does not matter what a woman drinks: wine, ... |
28 September 2007
14:36 GMT |
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Ancient Sumerian cuneiform slates from the Middle East testify that beer was processed in the area 5,000 years ago. Beer was very popular also among the Babylonians and the Egyptians of the same period, who knew more than 19 varieties. The oldest recipe also comes from ancient Egypt. From the Middle East, beer passed... |
14 August 2007
06:14 GMT |
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If you watch too many movies, you might think that the favorite drink of the binge drinkers is spirits. But a new research shows that this may be what teens prefer; American adults are more likely to have a beer can in hand than a shot glass. These 'mythbusters' are the result of two researches made by the ... |
8 August 2007
04:57 GMT |
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Guys love beer and that can be easily seen in beer ads, where besides the actual product, you can see all kinds of sports and beautiful women, mostly naked or who are about to lose their clothes to the happy owner of a can/pint.But there is more to beer than meets the eye. Many interesting stories circulating on the... |
30 July 2007
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We live in a world in which everything goes faster and if we used to play with toy cars, now kids can grab the wheel of a toy SUV. And before learning how to read, they master a cell phone. They are assaulted with information and offers from all sides. "There is this focus on a more savvy, more informed, more inclus... |
7 July 2007
05:33 GMT |
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A beer is a dynamic molecular world that does not stop evolving once it is in the bottle. Over 1,000 chemicals have been found in beer, giving it nearly 125 different flavors, referring to tastes, odors, and mouthfeel. About 40 flavors are common to the two broad types of beer, ales (pale ales, amber ales, and stouts... |
31 May 2007
15:41 GMT |
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"The beer belly" is a misnomer as the beer per se does contain many calories.But beer is indeed an appetite stimulant and its consume can lead to storing pounds. Beer also has high levels of purines, which boost the levels of uric acid in the joints, aggravating the gout.Black beer was once promoted as a rich source ... |
28 May 2007
14:51 GMT |
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Besides a big belly, beer can mean pure science. And to get the best beer head, you must use mathematics. New found formulas could explain why the foam of lager disappears in a moment, while a Guinness's sticks around. This mathematics applies not only for beer brewing, but in metallurgy, too. The foam of a beer... |
26 April 2007
04:09 GMT |
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