Shutterstock / B-D-S Piotr Marcinski Vanina Schmidt, Universidad de Buenos Aires y María Julia Raimundi, Universidad de Buenos Aires El consumo de alcohol representa un grave problema de salud pública a escala global. La Organización Mundial de la Salud ha advertido acerca de los peligros asociados al consumo excesivo de alcohol: daños a la salud, aumento de comportamientos de riesgo, …
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¿Otra ronda? ¿Qué ocurre realmente cuando tomamos alcohol en dosis bajas?
Alamy / JaCrispy Harry Sumnall, Liverpool John Moores University En Otra ronda, la última película del director danés Thomas Vinterberg, un grupo de amigos, Martin, Tommy, Peter y Nikolaj, deciden realizar un pequeño experimento: se mantendrán ligeramente borrachos durante todo el día para ver cómo afecta esto a sus relaciones sociales y a su rendimiento en el trabajo. Estos cuatro …
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Nicholas Longrich, Author provided Nicholas R. Longrich, University of Bath Humans constantly alter the world. We fire fields, turn forests into farms, and breed plants and animals. But humans don’t just reshape our external world – we engineer our internal worlds, and reshape our minds. One way we do this is by upgrading our mental “software”, so to speak, with …
Read More »Brewing Mesopotamian beer brings a sip of this vibrant ancient drinking culture back to life
Cylinder seal (left) and modern impression (right) showing two people drinking beer through long straws. Khafajeh, Iraq (Early Dynastic period, c. 2600–2350 B.C.). Courtesy of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago Tate Paulette, North Carolina State University It’s been about five months since I set foot in a bar. Like many of you navigating life in a pandemic, …
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