DailyDirt: Red, Red Wine…
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Alcoholic beverages have been part of human culture for thousands of years. But what do we really know about these drinks? Red wine goes with red meats, and white wine goes with fish… Liquor before beer, you’re in the clear… Here are just a few more interesting tidbits of information regarding ethyl alcohol.
- A group of Japanese physicists discovered that red wine could induce superconductivity in an iron telluride — so they tried a bunch of other alcoholic beverages like sake, beer and white wine to try to figure out what was going on. The researchers found that more tartaric acid in red wine correlated well with the superconductive state, but the alcohol also played some role. With just a bit more study, red wine will solve all of our energy problems and allow us to live forever…. [url]
- University of Connecticut wine researcher Dr. Dipak K. Das published fake data on the benefits of resveratrol, so there’s some doubt that this component of red wine has as many magical health benefits as some have reported. Still, the anecdotal evidence behind the “French Paradox” makes people think red wine has more than a correlation with a lower incidence of heart disease (even if there’s no causal relationship). [url]
- The ‘drunken monkey hypothesis’ proposes that humans like alcohol because our primate ancestors were highly dependent on fruits in their diet… and ethanol can be found in overripe fruits. But did those drunken monkeys exhibit superior Kung Fu skills? [url]
- You might think that wine experts can tell the difference between an expensive French wine and a much cheaper wine from New Jersey, but you’d be mostly wrong. Wine tasting is hard. Sometimes experts can’t even tell the difference between red and white wines — and the perception of wine can be influenced significantly by the label on the bottle. [url]
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Filed Under: alcohol, beverages, drink, food, french paradox, liquor, resveratrol, superconductivity, tartaric acid, taste, wine
Comments on “DailyDirt: Red, Red Wine…”
you make me feel so fine
A glass of red wine everyday us supposed to help you live longer, too.
It’s hard to tell a wine’s price depending on its taste, and that is actually a very silly thing to do.
An easy way to prove that is to taste a montperrat, worth about 10 to 30 euros depending on the year, may well be worth an opus one, worth 200 or more euros, because of overhyped advertisement.
all that really matters is whether weather, men and the ground all meet together.
Liquor before beer, you're in the clear
Mythbusters would be inclined to disagree. 😉
http://dsc.discovery.com/fansites/mythbusters/db/food/beer-in-clear-beer-and-liquor-never-sicker.html
Resveratrol Comes From Grape Skins
Why not just eat the grapes? Much more fun, and cheaper, than drinking wine.
Micheal Ho, this article got me playing a certain Bob Marley song throughout the house….much to my wife’s chagrin… 🙂 Thanks ^_^
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*Michael
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Your wife is probably the worse person to troll seeing as she is the keeper of the vagina
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I won’t complain about the results of playing Bob Marley’s Red Red Wine around my wife while drinking it ^_-
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I thought it was UB40 who did that song.
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Bob Marley may have done it better.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtYbF99voEs
Wine
Thank you. I can now show this to people who look at me strangely when I say that I bought a case of Foche in Ringoes, New Jersey.
GOP attacks Net Nueutrality under the cover of "Internet Freedom Platform"
Hey there Jay ,
I found the story that may sink the GOP and galvanize the same SOPA community against the Republican “Internet Freedom”
In the best best Republican tradition of of serving up distasteful medicine with a spoonful of Honey the Republican unveiled the seeming “Internet Freedom ” aspect of this years GOP platform “
Link to the full article here : The Daily Call
Now here is the rattle snake in the bush so to speak :
“We will remove regulatory barriers that protect outdated techologies and
business plans from innovation and competition , while preventing legacy
regulation from interfering with new technologies such as mobile delivery of voice
and video data as they become crucial components of the Internet ecosystem,” said
the final draft.
right there hidden in plain view is there plans to attack Net Neutrality . As you know the FCC put into place penetrability rules that have be fiercely opposed earlier this year. they plant to stop that .
the second part about mobile delivery is all about a multi- tier price structure according to the types of service that you have . voice one price music more money video even more . 🙁
I thought that you would want to put this up . this part of the platform has nothing to do with Freedom , unless you are talking about letting the ISP’s charge whatever they want .
Re: GOP attacks Net Nueutrality under the cover of "Internet Freedom Platform"
Ummm….who is Jay? Why are you posting this comment here? And what does this have to do with Red Wine?
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It’s a fine example of the effects of excessive consumption