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Why Does Alcohol Make You Drunk?
Alcohol has been used by humans for medicinal and recreational purposes for thousands of years (see the sidebar 'When Was Beer First Brewed'), but scientists still aren't entirely sure how it makes us tipsy
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Pontifications – answers to the fluff of everyday life
Answers to some of the amusing questions and fluff we muse on from time to time like : Why are typewriter keys layed out as they are ? ; How exactly does asprin find a headache ? ; Why is the Earth’s core still hot ?
Read MorePenicillin – Wonderstuff
The story of the miracle drug that we tend to take for granted today … Penicillan.
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