Is a “wee dram” the same as a unit of whisky? A unit of whisky is a 25ml measure that contains one unit of alcohol. This is the standard UK measure for spirits so if you order a double, that’s approximately equal to 50ml and approximately 2 units of alcohol. In the UK, a ...
A great deal of tolerance for alcohol is what is called “functional tolerance”, which is actually your brain compensating for the disrupting effects of alcohol. The more practice it has, the better it gets at this, so the next time someone says you’re drinking too much, you can say ...
The process of heating ground snus tobacco below the point of combustion is called pasteurization, and it's what distinguishes snus from other types of tobacco. In most forms of tobacco production, the leaves are left to air-dry in order to bring out their natural flavor. Air-drying tobacco...
Just a quick refresher for the uninitiated: pouring one out refers to “the act of pouring liquid (usually an alcoholic beverage) on the ground as a sign of reverence for friends or relatives that have passed away.Why liquor is called Spirits? (Libations, Alcohol & Alchemy)(Stay tipsy)...
make his bar into “a comforting, warm, inviting place” that looks like an airier version of “your grandmother’s living room,” then he could get women to drink there. And as any bar manager (Dark Age or otherwise) knows, getting women into a bar is the way to g...
When drawing a positive externality diagram, why is the marginal private cost more inelastic looking than the marginal social cost? The consumption of alcohol is often cited as an example of a negative externality. Explain a ...
It hurts… Read more UI Guru Jakob Nielsen’s Site Is Unreadable Memo To The Semantic Web: Drop “Semantic” And Become The “Graph Web” For some time now my team and I have been working on a new web service called Kloudshare. This is not a product announcement, but I mention ...
The traditional recipe, she said, is to take lemon rinds and infuse them with 95-percent alcohol. Leave the infusion for eight days, strain the zest, boil (lots of) sugar in water to make syrup, and stir in the alcoholic mixture; bottle it and let it stand for several days or ...
A growing trend among those looking for companionship is what is being called "paperclipping." Cosmopolitan magazine recently shined a light on the topic of paperclipping, describing is as a someone who keeps minimal contact with someone else just in case they happen to need them in the future...
Learn about the benefits of choosing cleansers and lotions free from parabens, fragrances, and alcohol and how they could improve your skincare routine.