泥酔などによる路上寝が増加し、車の下敷きになる事故などが起きている模様。とくに沖縄ではあまりに多いことから、同県では路上寝による事故の統計が取られているほどだそうだ。最近でも路上に座り込んで寝ていた少年が米空軍所属を自称する人物に財布を取られたとする事件や女子中学生3人が酔っ払って公園のベンチで寝ていたとする件などもあったとのこと（沖縄タイムス、沖縄タイムスその2）。
pongchang 曰く、死亡者数は602人で、すべての人対車両事故死者の8.3％でした。自動車事故で死亡した歩行者の1割弱が路…
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechRadar: BrewDog, one of the world’s largest craft beer brewers, has exposed personally identifiable information (PII) belonging to more than 200,000 of its shareholders and customers, according to cybersecuri…
There are plenty of ways to make it easier for someone who wants to cut out the booze this October – and beyondThose of us who don’t drink, whatever the reason, know that being alcohol-free doesn’t mean the end of socialising or having fun. But for som…
The world of vertical farming has seen a massive uptick in interest over the past decade, as the world grapples with concerns over resource use, farmable area and exploding population growth. While promising, there are still plenty of question marks surrounding the technology, including the diversity of crops one can grow indoors at scale. Newark, […]
Alcohol’s allure was powerful when we were growing up and those born after us consume far less. Now booze is falling out of fashion, is it time to assess old habits?My first job in journalism was editing a free magazine called Rasp. In 1995, we ran a c…
A portrait of the Coney Island beer hustle, from 2005.
Team combined two mass spectrometry techniques to analyze samples in 10 minutes.
Wild grain by ibm4381 (cc by)clew’s post Stones speak and ashes live explores recent archeological research and evidence that “shred the long-standing idea that early people subsisted mainly on meat.”
オーストラリア・ビクトリア州の賭博・酒類規制委員会 (VCGLR) は 11 日、Howler Brewing Company 製のチョコレートミルク味ビール「Choc Milk Stout」のパッケージデザイン使用を禁じたと発表した(メディアリリース、
The Register の記事、
news.com.au の記事、
NZ Herald の記事)。
Choc Milk Stout の缶はネスレのチョコレート風味麦芽飲料「ミロ」のパッケージに似せたデザインだ。酒類広告の自主規制団体 ABAC …
An overview of archaeological investigation into pre-Neolithic use of grains: “Well before people domesticated crops, they were grinding grains for hearty stews and other starchy dishes.” Lots of different archaeologists, many of them experimental arch…
