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Scientists explain why the office party so often ends in embarrassment
The Telegraph: It is an annual event that usually leads to red faces the morning after. Now scientists have come up with an explanation for why the office party is so often the cause of
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Four Loko Is Just Like The Copenhagen Philharmonic
Scientific American: It’s an ordinary afternoon at Copenhagen Central Station. At 2:32pm, a man who appears to be a run-of-the-mill street performer sets up a drum in the center of a large hall. A cellist
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Most students drink not for the taste, but to get drunk: Study
Straits Times: The majority of people, particularly college students, drink alcohol not because of its taste, but to get drunk, a study found. ‘They intend to get intoxicated,’ Scott Geller, a psychologist and professor from
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Gerard Depardieu reportedly urinates on a plane; are alcohol and the bladder a bad combo?
Los Angeles Times: In what could be turning into a nasty trend, French actor Gerard Depardieu reportedly urinated on the cabin floor of an airplane. A passenger interviewed on French radio said that Depardieu, who
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The Four Loko Effect?
In the fall of 2010, 17 students at New Jersey’s Ramapo College, along with six of their friends, were hospitalized for severe alcohol intoxication after a night of partying. Soon after, a similar event occurred
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Beat loneliness – to avoid a stroke: Why isolation is as bad for you as smoking
Daily Mail: Loneliness is as bad for your health as smoking. It seems astonishing, I know, but scientific research suggests that social isolation, in the long term, is as damaging as a 15-a-day cigarette habit
