drinking

How to Sell Jell-O Shots to Drunk Guys

Max Read · 09/03/10 03:05AM

You have probably been thinking to yourself lately: "What are the best practices for selling Jell-O shots to drunk young men at bars?" What a coincidence! Because The Wall Street Journal can tell you exactly that.

Cocktail Godfather Wants a Bar Fight

Ryan Tate · 08/31/10 05:38PM

Eben Freeman has had it with the injustice done to bartenders. "Someone needs to get sued," the "molecular mixologist" tells The Atlantic. Cocktails used to be intoxicating fun, but now they could land you in legal trouble.

Drugs and Alcohol Threatened by Outside-the-Box Thinking

Hamilton Nolan · 08/18/10 10:09AM

Dutch cities are trying to crack down on "drug tourism." Russia is banning its own citizens from buying booze. Meanwhile, doctors want to give acid and mushrooms to depressed people. Is everything getting a little too wacky?

Study: America's Drinking Rate at Highest Level Since 1985

Jeff Neumann · 08/01/10 03:23PM

A new Gallup study on Americans and booze has some interesting facts. Did you know that young American men love beer? And that Americans like alcohol? Or that people on both coasts prefer wine? Stereotypes come true with science!

Rich Guy Discovers Something Worse Than Drunk Dialing

Hamilton Nolan · 06/30/10 04:17PM

British oil trader Steven Perkins came home drunk one night last year, went online, and lost $10 million while trading oil futures. Now that vintage G.I. Joe you bought on Ebay while drunk doesn't seem so bad. [NYT, pic]

Science Proves: Teen Girls Don't Care

Hamilton Nolan · 06/24/10 04:00PM

Kid checkups! Organic fatties! Lazy docs! Sports carbs! Drunk teens! Rat Lungs! It's your predominantly factual Health Watch, where we watch your health—with the interest of a teenage girl amongst nerds!

Science Is Making Alcohol-Induced Liver Damage Irrelevant

Jeff Neumann · 06/13/10 04:03PM

Good news: A team of scientists from Massachusetts General Hospital are one step closer to being able to regrow livers, after they created working liver grafts and transplanted them into rats. Drink up—you can fix it later! [BBC]