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2026-01-22 Science & Technology

Archaeologists uncover 3,000-year-old beer-like drinks brewed with unusual ingredients

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Posted by Skidmark 2026-01-22 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [1806 views ] Top

1 You can make alcohol out of anything with sugar.
I love the "stop having fun everyone" people who always jump out and say, "DID YOU KNOW alcohol is a POISON‽" as if it's some kind of crack cocaine. Yes we know, that's why they use it to sterilize operating rooms.

Posted by Jairong+Scourge+of+the+Gepids2435 2026-01-22 04:55|| 2026-01-22 04:55|| Front Page Top

2 Like so much else, the poison is in the dose. Below that dose, alcohol has long-known health benefits.

Posted by trailing wife 2026-01-22 07:17|| 2026-01-22 07:17|| Front Page Top

3 Dihydrogen monoxide also kills. As TW says its all about the dose.

Posted by Procopius2k 2026-01-22 07:40|| 2026-01-22 07:40|| Front Page Top

4 Hell, even just breathing kills.

Posted by DarthVader 2026-01-22 09:19|| 2026-01-22 09:19|| Front Page Top

5 As of January 21, 2026, air quality in India remains poor, with major cities experiencing "unhealthy" to "very unhealthy" levels and high PM2.5 concentrations, posing serious health risks to residents, especially children and the elderly.

Posted by Skidmark 2026-01-22 09:33|| 2026-01-22 09:33|| Front Page Top

6 There was the time Mr. Wife did not die from breathing the air in India… amoebic dysentery manifested in the usual, enthusiastically bloody way. He’d not eaten or drunk anything yet, having gone straight from the airport to his hotel room for a nap to get over the worst of the jet lag, and only touched the escalator hand rail at the airport. The assumption was that he’d breathed in tainted dust, of which there is a great deal in that country.

Posted by trailing wife 2026-01-22 10:57|| 2026-01-22 10:57|| Front Page Top

7 TW: I contracted that in RVN. Utterly miserable.

Posted by Whiskey Mike 2026-01-22 12:09|| 2026-01-22 12:09|| Front Page Top

8 The "transgenerational effects, impacting the health of descendants" is of particular concern. Coincidence? Yes, if you believe in that sort of thing.

AI Summary from Google:

To understand the impact of Agent Orange on genomic integration and molecular dysregulation, consider the following points:

Agent Orange is a herbicide linked to various health issues, including cancer and genetic disorders.

It contains dioxins, which can disrupt normal cellular processes and gene expression.

Exposure may lead to genomic instability, increasing the risk of mutations.

Molecular dysregulation can affect pathways involved in cell growth and apoptosis.

Studies show potential transgenerational effects, impacting the health of descendants.

Ongoing research aims to clarify the mechanisms of dioxin-induced genomic changes.

Genomic Integration and Molecular Dysregulation in Aggressive Stage IV Bladder Cancer Following COVID-19 mRNA Vaccination

Posted by Besoeker 2026-01-22 14:03|| 2026-01-22 14:03|| Front Page Top

9 They keep talking about this variety of ancient beer and nobody is offering as a new craft beer. It couldn’t be worse than Zima.

Posted by Super Hose 2026-01-22 20:30|| 2026-01-22 20:30|| Front Page Top

10 Utterly miserable.

I’m glad you survived, my dear — I hope it didn’t encapsulate for you. Mr. Wife called home as they arrived to take him to the hospital, “to say goodbye, just in case,” which upset my darling mother-in-law dreadfully when she took the call. They kept him hospitalized under the care of the best tropical disease expert in India — through the hallucinations and the real giant Indian cockroaches climbing all over the walls — while his colleagues called me twice a day to lie about his condition. They admitted to the lies later, because the most important thing at the time was to keep me from getting on an airplane to go take care of him.

Posted by trailing wife 2026-01-22 22:37|| 2026-01-22 22:37|| Front Page Top

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