food and drink
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How Beer and Drugs Empowered an Ancient Andean Empire
Archaeological evidence from Peru suggests elite members of the Wari Empire mixed a hallucinogenic drug with a beer-like beverage in order to cultivate and preserve political control.
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RIP Popcorn Time
Popcorn Time, the popular video piracy app, is officially dead — again. Developers behind the once immensely popular torrenting platform announced Tuesday that it had been officially retired due to a downturn in public interest. A visit to the project’s website reveals what appears to be an illustration of a dead popcorn box, as well…
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Here Are the World’s 10 Worst Plastic Polluters
If plastic was a country, it would be the world’s fifth-largest greenhouse gas emitter. And the industry’s footprint could grow further, doubling by 2040.
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Gift Me This Waffle Maker Makes Tetris Pieces That Disappear Without Any Stacking
Amidst the ever-growing problems facing the world today, there’s some solace to be taken in the knowledge that someone, somewhere, is diligently working on another new design for a novelty waffle maker that cleverly leverages some pop culture phenomenon. Tetris, it’s time to step up to the breakfast plate.