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Although larger doses of alcohol lead to more severe symptoms, hangover is not solely dose-related. Acetaldehyde, the dehydrogenated product of alcohol metabolism, might be responsible for hangover symptoms. Congeners, the byproducts of individual alcohol preparations (which are found primarily in brandy, wine, tequila, whiskey, and other dark ( Read more... )

When your age catches up with your coat size.

A lively conversation on the titular subject, concerning the availability of theory in the humanities. Five languages have been deployed to date. All comers are welcome.

Another Usenet discussion.

“Nous sommes si accoutumés à nous déguiser aux autres qu’enfin nous nous déguisons à nous-mêmes.”
“We are so used to disguising ourselves from others that we end up by disguising ourselves from ourselves.”
- François de La Rochefoucauld, Maximes, 119
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[John Travolta] said that Cary Grant once gave him weight-loss advice. “Cary Grant told me to forget the whole thing about food, eating-just make it not important. I didn’t like that piece of advice, but often I had to use it to lose weight for film. Now cut to 20 years later: I told Marlon Brando what Cary Grant had said, and he said, ‘Don’t ( Read more... )

    George Spiggott: In the words of Marcel Proust - and this applies to any woman in the world - if you can stay up and listen with a fair degree of attention to whatever garbage, no matter how stupid it is, that they’re coming out with, till ten minutes past four in the morning... you’re in!

- Bedazzled

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