Overweight and oblivious: Aussie men embrace the beer belly
April 12, 2008
Now ask any college female and she’ll tell you: Australian men are hot. Like, really hot. Think Heath Ledger hot (may he rest in peace). However, this article from LiveNews may prove otherwise. Calling all college men everywhere– please, please, please do not take a cue from these guys:
Australian men are in denial about their weight and have come to accept the beer belly as the norm.
Professor Ian Caterson, from the University of Sydney says the misperceptions of men are deeply entrenched in Australian culture, with men forming the idea that bigger is better.
A national survey has found 60 per cent of men have a body mass index over 30 but only 36 per cent consider themselves overweight.
Professor Caterson says their female partners also seem to say it’s OK for their men to carry the extra kilos.
When it comes to their own weight, when women notice they have become heavier they tend to do something about it.
Absolut Vodka + Swedish Robots = …music?
April 11, 2008
The typical college experience heavily involves two things: alcohol and music. Therefore, I can see no better idea than to further combine them—in a seemingly unrelated and random manner. Apparently, the genius minds at Absolut agree:
Absolut (recently in the news for their controversial ad) has decided to fund a Stockholm-based project to allow internet users to create music… with robots. AbsolutMachines features a quartet of strange, musical robots that respond to internet user-provided input. You (a legally drinking adult) enter a queue of users to write 8-seconds worth of music on a digital keyboard. After that, live video feeds from Stockholm show the machines performing your song and expanding on it creatively. Different camera angles are available, and you can email yourself your video. (Michigan Daily)
Cool! Instead of stumbling home alone (not that a college drinker would come home alone… but, you know, sometimes that happens) and wasting away hours on Facebook (really, where does the time go?), now we can stumble home, open up our trusty laptops, bang a few keys, and create our own symphony.
Wanna play? Give it a try here.
Read more:
http://apps.michigandaily.com/blogs/thecircuit/?p=187
http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/absolut-quartet-robots-making-music-with-ping-balls-and-brandy/
http://skirmisher.org/robotics/absolut-machines-the-robot-orchestra/
New Study: High School Drinkers Become College Drinkers
March 28, 2008
According to a new study from the University of Maryland, the amount that a person drinks in High School is a strong indicator of the amount that they will drink in College.
The researchers checked how closely parents monitored their kids’ activities in high school (Who’s going to be there? What time are you coming home? Were Tom’s parents there?”) and then checked how much alcohol they drank .
The closer the parents monitored high school behavior, the less the kids drank. And the more the kids drank in high school, the more they drank in college.
“High school drinking level by far was the strongest predictor of college drinking,” said a researcher.
But interesting to note is that high school supervision didn’t necessarily translate into less drinking in college.
20ft Tall Moosehead Bottle Stolen by Spring Breakers
March 27, 2008
Spring Break pranksters make off with 20-foot inflatable beer bottle
The beer bottle bandits waited until 5 a.m., after all the cooks and waitresses had gone home and the managers had locked up.
Then they ducked under a rope fence, pulled the plug on the motor and slashed several of the cords supporting the 20-foot inflatable beer bottle.
“The engine is fairly big 40 or 50 pounds,” said cook Luis Wicho Rodriguez. ” Then two or three had to get the bottle itself. “All that was left the next day was an extension cord and tracks in the sand leading to a nearby beach approach. The Spring Break burglars even slipped past the Ocean Deck’s security cameras without being detected.
“Some drunk spring breakers did it,” employee Brady Carter surmised. “But that was a pretty nice heist.”
It turns out that the mammoth bottle of suds is worth about $5,000, which would be considered grand theft, a felony.
The makers of Moosehead beer want it back. They are offering a case a week of Moosehead light for one year to the person who brings the bottle back to its home at the Ocean Deck.
“It will probably end up at some frat party in Tallahassee,” said Capt. Scott Petersohn, spokesman for the Volusia County Beach Patrol.
P Diddy’s Car Service for Drunk Stars
March 26, 2008
Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs is launching a car service to drive drunk celebrities home.He hopes his new venture will put an end to much talked about celebrity DUI arrests.
A representative for Combs says, “He wants to make sure everyone’s partying responsibly.”
“After partnering with Ciroc vodka, he wants to make sure everyone’s partying responsibly,” his rep says.
Science Says: Wine Drinkers Have Smaller Brians Than Beer Drinkers
March 25, 2008
Scientists have discovered that drinking too much wine damages the brain more than beer or spirits.
The hippocampus, the part of the brain involved in memory, spatial tasks and many other functions, was more than 10 per cent smaller in those who drank wine than in those who drank beer.
In the study, alcohol alone may not account for the differences because the beer and spirit drinkers had greater lifetime consumption of alcohol; in the case of beer drinkers some had consumed twice as much alcohol as the wine lovers. One theory is that there may be something in beer that partially protects the brain from the damage caused by wine.
The researchers, from Germany’s Göttingen University, believe the findings may be linked to a compound in the blood called homocysteine, which other studies have shown is linked to higher risks of heart disease, strokes, brain atrophy and dementia.
Researchers found that beer drinkers had the lowest levels of the compound. One theory is that other ingredients of beer – B vitamins and folate – may break down homocysteine.
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