Other sketches showed seasonal celebrations like this one by Falco from 1908: Father Christmas is shown as distributing presents - bottles of Oxygénée Cusenier, of course! - by plane in Paris. Christmas is here a celebration of both progress (the plane) and absinthe, apparently!
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Many of these sketches showed political figures. This one here - by Paul d'Espagnat - shows F.D. Roosevelt in 1910. Roosevelt explains that he got through the many events of a recent Europe trip with the help of absinthe: "Thanks to Oxygéne Cusenier, my dear! That's my secret."
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A team of researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology has investigated why the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster drinks alcohol and has shown that alcohol has a direct and positive effect on the mating success of male flies. This effect is due to the increased production of sex pheromones after alcohol consumption, which makes males that have consumed alcohol more attractive to females. Male flies are therefore strongly attracted to alcohol, especially when they are not yet mated. Three different neural circuits in the flies' brains control the response when the flies smell alcohol: While two olfactory receptors are responsible for attracting male flies to small amounts of alcohol, a third ensures that excessive amounts have a deterrent effect. Because alcohol is toxic, the flies must carefully weigh the risks and benefits of drinking alcohol.
Today's BAC high score is .222. Extra style points awarded to the driver for driving an excavator on top of it all.
Eight or more drinks per week linked to signs of injury in the brain https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/04/250409173113.htm
Heavy drinkers who have eight or more alcoholic drinks per week have an increased risk of brain lesions called hyaline arteriolosclerosis, signs of brain injury that are associated with memory and thinking problems, according to a new study.
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