alcoholic drinks

  • Scientists May Have Figured Out Why Red Wine Gives You a Headache

    Scientists May Have Figured Out Why Red Wine Gives You a Headache

    New research may eventually help solve a mystery relevant to holiday drinkers. Scientists at the University of California Davis and elsewhere believe they’ve figured out why some people quickly develop headaches after drinking red wine but not other alcoholic beverages: too much of a particular flavonoid that mixes badly with alcohol. The team is already…


  • I Assure You, Budweiser, We Have Been Drinking

    I Assure You, Budweiser, We Have Been Drinking

    “Remember this?” Budweiser asks, in a new commercial promoting covid-19 vaccines. What follows are a series of snapshots of the before times, when we swigged at the barbecue, sloshed around at the bar, flung beer all over each other at the frat. Jimmy Durante croons, with nostalgic record cracking, the World War II-era hit “I’ll…