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Drinking for 10,000 Years: Intoxication and Civilization: Edward Slingerland

Long Now: Conversations at The Interval

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Distillation Is a Great Way to Preserve Calories

There's a the biological and nobleman argument that whenyo take grain and ferment it into beer, youre adding micro nutrients. That's probably one of the explanations why people living in ancient egypt could live on these incredibly monotonous diets. Distillation is an awesome way to do it, because it lasts for so much longer. Please raise your hand, and we'll get a mike to you.

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