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From: houze@bach.udel.edu (Jonathan Bric Houze)
Subject: Re: Drinking beer through a straw
Organization: University of Delaware
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 22:01:59 GMT

In article <krikket.5407@meltdown.chi.il.us> krikket@meltdown.chi.il.us (D. 'krikket' Krick) writes:
>>Who's got the straight dope?
>
>According to Uncle Cecil, if I remember correctly, is that you do get drunker
>faster if you drink beer through a straw.  Reason:  The alcohol surface area
>is greatly expanded (due to less volume at a time) and is therefore asorbed
>into the body faster than if you were guzzeling it...
>
 This is irrelevant. Beer is only a 4-5 % solution of ethanol in water,
and it all ends up pooled in your stomach anyway. Even when you drink 
through a straw, you actually swallow the beer in gulps, so I fail to see
how 'the surface area of the alcohol' could be expanded.

Drinking a large amount of any liquid is apt to make one a bit light headed,
especially if you are sucking an entire beer up the straw. 
The combination of this light-headednesss and the effect from the   
is probably what makes one feel more drunk. 
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From: ccuppern@s.psych.uiuc.edu (Cyndi Cuppernell)
Subject: 9 essential amino acids
Organization: UIUC Department of Psychology
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1992 03:35:24 GMT


I attended a class on meatless cooking recently, and the instructor
kept talking about the 9 essential amino acids.  I always thought
there were only 8 essential aa's.  She got her information from
some book, whose name escapes me at the moment.

Anyone know if I remember right or wrong?
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From: craig@june.cs.washington.edu (Craig Anderson)
Subject: Re: Hot water
Organization: Computer Science & Engineering, U. of Washington, Seattle
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 92 00:27:21 GMT

In article <1992Jul21.184913.271@PA.dec.com>, mikkelson@breakr.enet.dec.com (snopes) writes:
|> >On the same subject, I've also heard that warm or hot water is
|> >more readily absorbed into the body than cold.  So the
|> >general idea being that you should drink warm water to replenish
|> >your body's water after a workout.
|> 
|>   This is not a good idea in colder climates, because you'll freeze more
|>   quickly afterwards.

Actually, drinking warm (> 99 deg. F) or hot non-alcholic beverages is a
good way to combat hypothermia because it directly warms the body
core.  Don't overdo it so that you start sweating in the clothes
you have on though.

-- 
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From: krikket@meltdown.chi.il.us (D. 'krikket' Krick)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.science
Subject: Re: Drinking beer through a straw
Date: 28 Jul 92 09:53:52 GMT
Organization: The Meltdown - A Team Star BBS

In article <1992Jul28.153046.14901@panix.com>, fnord@panix.com (Cliff Heller)
writes:
>Any truth to the rumour/legend that you get more drunk if you drink
>beer/alcohol through a straw?
>
>My less scientific friends don't realize that
>
>   1) Drunkenness is a highly subjective thing that depends on many factors
>
>   2) When you drink through a straw, there is not suddenly a greater
>quantity of alcohol being consumed.
>
>
>Who's got the straight dope?

According to Uncle Cecil, if I remember correctly, is that you do get drunker
faster if you drink beer through a straw.  Reason:  The alcohol surface area
is greatly expanded (due to less volume at a time) and is therefore asorbed
into the body faster than if you were guzzeling it...

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From: anton@gagme.chi.il.us (Andrzej Borowiec)
Subject: Re: Water and Alcohol
Originator: anton@gagme
Organization: Gagme Public Access UNIX, Chicago, Illinois.
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 21:18:32 GMT

In article <1992Jul24.200241.25961@nap.amoco.com> pgravel@nap.amoco.com (Philip L. Gravel) writes:
>In article <lsh1.711986904@Ra.MsState.Edu>, lsh1@Ra.MsState.Edu (Shane 
>Hebert) writes:
> 
>> I seem to remember something about if you mix alcohol and water,
>> the end volume is less than the sum of the two volumes seperately.
>> i.e.	I have a quart of water and a quart of alcohol,
>> 	I pour the two into a big jug.  What I have left is less
>> 	than two quarts of the alcohol water mixture...
>> 
>> Is this true?
>
>Yes.  Mixing 50 mL of methanol and 50 mL of water gives you about 95 mL of
>solution.
>
>
>Phil
>
But if you try the same experiment with ethanol the mixture has the
tendency to disappear faster than you can make it.
Unless you start with 500 ccm volumes.

Andrzej A. Borowiec
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.science
From: moroney@ramblr.enet.dec.com
Subject: Re: Water and Alcohol
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 05:13:47 GMT

In article <1992Jul29.111047.9956@tigger.jvnc.net>, keithd@bigguy.timeplex.com (Keith Dickinson) writes...
>Yes but is it due to:
>	1> Chemical reaction??
>	2> Some sort of evaporative responce by the ethanol??
>	3> The fact that you and your 20 friends are drinking it???

An old chemistry book I have states it is due to minor chemical changes,
causing the molecules to be on average a little closer in the case of a
decreased total volume.  It's not just alcohol and water, they give the
example of salt and water, 58.5 g NaCl (27.5 ml volume) in 10 liters water have
a total volume of 10027.5 ml, but the solution of the salt and water is only
10016.5 ml.

The reverse is true for ammonium chloride, 214g (142.5 ml) NH4Cl and 843.5
ml water have a separate total volume of 986 ml, but the NH4Cl solution in the
water is 1000 ml.

-Mike
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.science
From: bwatson@nyx.cs.du.edu (bruce watson)
Subject: Re: Why does it feel better after a thunderstorm?
X-Disclaimer: Nyx is a public access Unix system run by the University
	of Denver for the Denver community.  The University has neither
	control over nor responsibility for the opinions of users.
Keywords: (Mythical) air ionisation?
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix at U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 92 03:46:07 GMT

Remember, it's the not the heat, it's the humidity. There is a nifty
concept called the Temperature Humidity Index. I believe it's 
T + 0.8H. With high humidity a given temperature feels hotter 
than the same temp at a lower humidity. When the temp falls below about
75 degrees the humidity doesn't really matter when it comes to comfort.
This all comes from the fact that the body keeps cool by the evaporation
of sweat. Since skin temperature is about 70+ at temps at or lower than
this there is no need to sweat to keep cool. I used to live in New Orleans
and now I am in Denver--I am know this by direct experiment.

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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.science
From: paulk@garfield.cs.mun.ca (Paul E. King)
Subject: Re: Water and Alcohol
Organization: CS Dept., Memorial University of Newfoundland
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 19:16:43 GMT

cfrbj@ux1.cts.eiu.edu (Bob Jorstad) writes:

>f I remeber my chemistry terms correctly, isn't the word miscible an
>approprite description of this phenomenon?
>		BOB

I believe that the word "miscible" is just a synonym fo soluble, isn't it?
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.science
Subject: Re: Water and Alcohol
From: ecmtwhk@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz (Thomas Koenig)
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1992 03:12:01 GMT
Organization: University of Auckland, New Zealand.
Keywords: water alcohol

lsh1@Ra.MsState.Edu (Shane Hebert) writes:

>I seem to remember something about if you mix alcohol and water,
>the end volume is less than the sum of the two volumes seperately.
>i.e.	I have a quart of water and a quart of alcohol,
>	I pour the two into a big jug.  What I have left is less
>	than two quarts of the alcohol water mixture...

>Is this true?

Yes. In thermodynamics, this phenonenon is called excess volume
(negative, in this case).

If you read Atkins on Physical Chemistry, there's a funny excercise
in there about a pub owner who wants to make 100 ccm of vodka by mixing
30 ccm of Alcohol and 70 ccm of Water; the question being wether he'll
succeed. The answer starts out with:

"Obviously, he has understood neither the principle nor the application
of partial molar quantities.", goes on to calculate the volume and concludes
"It will probably be futile to explain this to the landlord".

BTW, why is ethanol content of drinks given in volume fraction?  Because
of excess volume, there is no simple relation between alcohol content
in Vol-% and alcohol content in grams/gram or grams/litre, what most
people would probably be most interested in.  (In other words, the
alcohol content in grams is different for 0.1 litres of a 50% drink than
for 1 litre of a 5% drink). Is this just neglected?
-- 
Thomas Koenig, ecmtwhk@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz, ib09@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de
The joy of engineering is to find a straight line on a double logarithmic
diagram.
From: mayers@cemmva.cem.msu.edu
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.science
Subject: Re: Water and Alcohol
Date: 28 Jul 92 01:04:36 GMT
Reply-To: mayers@cemmva.cem.msu.edu
Organization: MSU_Chemistry

I have also heard that if U pour a overfull glass of milk into a overfull
glass of popcorn (slowly), it'll fit as if the popcorn wasn't there.
An
But then, what do water and alcohol, and milk and popcorn have in common to
do this???
-Anson "Popcorn, after all, is not very intoxicating" Mayers
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From: pgravel@nap.amoco.com (Philip L. Gravel)
Subject: Re: Water and Alcohol
Reply-To: pgravel@nap.amoco.com (Philip L. Gravel)
Organization: Amoco Corporation
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 18:12:44 GMT

In article <1992Jul30.015407.22177@ux1.cts.eiu.edu>, cfrbj@ux1.cts.eiu.edu 
(Bob Jorstad) writes:
 
> In article <1992Jul29.225416.5365@u.washington.edu> 
> wolgamot@milton.u.washington.edu (Greg Wolgamot) writes:
> >The reason that an alcohol/water mixture occupies less volume than the two 
> >components separately is that the the intermolecular spaces of the the
> >mixture are less than that of the pure alcohol, due to hydrogen bonding 
> >with the water.
> 
> If I remeber my chemistry terms correctly, isn't the word miscible an
> approprite description of this phenomenon?

No.  Soluble is the word used to describe when a solid dissolves in a liquid.
Miscible is the equivalent of soluble, but is used to refer to when one
liquid "dissolves" in another.  Water and methanol are miscible.  Water and
benzene are not miscible (are immiscible).


Phil

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These opinions aren't worth the paper they're written on and
certainly don't reflect those of my employer.
From: michi@ptcburp.ptcbu.oz.au (Michael Henning)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.science
Subject: Re: Drinking beer through a straw
Date: 30 Jul 92 02:54:11 GMT
Organization: Pyramid Technology Corporation

sut@dsbc.icl.co.uk (Secure Unix Team KID01) writes:

>In article <1992Jul28.153046.14901@panix.com> fnord@panix.com (Cliff Heller) writes:
>>Any truth to the rumour/legend that you get more drunk if you drink
>>beer/alcohol through a straw?
>>
>>   2) When you drink through a straw, there is not suddenly a greater
>>quantity of alcohol being consumed.
>>
>>
>I thought it was 'cos you swallow less air when you drink though a straw.

So if I want to get sober quickly, all I need to do is swallow a lot of air?

							Michi :-)

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From: moser@sw.stratus.com (Tom Moser)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.science
Subject: Re: Water and Alcohol
Keywords: water alcohol
Date: 27 Jul 92 17:37:40 GMT
Organization: Stratus Computer, Inc.

In article <lsh1.711986904@Ra.MsState.Edu>, lsh1@Ra.MsState.Edu (Shane Hebert) writes:
> I seem to remember something about if you mix alcohol and water,
> the end volume is less than the sum of the two volumes seperately.
> i.e.	I have a quart of water and a quart of alcohol,
> 	I pour the two into a big jug.  What I have left is less
> 	than two quarts of the alcohol water mixture...
> 

If you like this trick try taking a bottle packed full of sugar and 
adding water. You can pour in almost another full bottle of water to the
bottle which is full of sugar.

This does not work with sand.

-Tom
From: pgravel@nap.amoco.com (Philip L. Gravel)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.science
Subject: Re: Water and Alcohol
Date: 24 Jul 92 20:02:41 GMT
Reply-To: pgravel@nap.amoco.com (Philip L. Gravel)
Organization: Amoco Corporation

In article <lsh1.711986904@Ra.MsState.Edu>, lsh1@Ra.MsState.Edu (Shane 
Hebert) writes:
 
> I seem to remember something about if you mix alcohol and water,
> the end volume is less than the sum of the two volumes seperately.
> i.e.	I have a quart of water and a quart of alcohol,
> 	I pour the two into a big jug.  What I have left is less
> 	than two quarts of the alcohol water mixture...
> 
> Is this true?

Yes.  Mixing 50 mL of methanol and 50 mL of water gives you about 95 mL of
solution.


Phil

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Amoco Corporation, Chicago, IL        Phone:    (312)856-3553
----------
These opinions aren't worth the paper they're written on and
certainly don't reflect those of my employer.
From: adye@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com (Alan Dye)
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 16:25:44 GMT
Subject: Re: Re: Hot water
Organization: Hewlett Packard - Boise, ID
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.science

I believe warm water has more calories than cold water...


Newsgroups: alt.folklore.science
From: asiivo@cs.joensuu.fi (Antti Siivonen)
Subject: Re: Why does it feel better after a thunderstorm?
Keywords: (Mythical) air ionisation?
Organization: University of Joensuu
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 15:07:02 GMT

rf@cl.cam.ac.uk (Robin Fairbairns on ely.cl.cam.ac.uk) writes:
>2. Is there a significant effect from ionisation patterns?

	Yes, if there are negative ions in the air, like after the storm you 
	feel better than when there are positive before it. 
-- 

		Andreas - Siperian Sirri   Siberian Stint
      Drusba ? Absurd !               ;     Edom mode    
      E, Roma ? Amore !               ;     Devil lived
From: navsaria@bass.bu.edu (Dipesh Navsaria)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.science
Subject: Re: SI system (Was Re: Byte me : ) (Was Re: Writing portable code))
Date: 27 Jul 92 20:14:08 GMT
Reply-To: navsaria@bass.bu.edu (Dipesh Navsaria)
Followup-To: alt.folklore.science
Organization: Boston University



   Hey, did anyone ever come up with a canonical list of _ALL_ the SI System
abbreviations and the power of ten they stood for?  I know there was some 
stuff floating around, but then a bit of net.absence took over on my part...
8)

						Thanks!

						Dipesh (navsaria@pub.bu.edu)
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Subject: Re: Hot water
From: mbaya@antioc.antioch.edu
Date: 22 Jul 92 09:53:47 EDT
Followup-To: rec.martial-arts
Organization:  

In article <59140@mimsy.umd.edu>, tms@cs.umd.edu (Tom Swiss (not Swift, not Suiss, Swiss!)) writes:
> In rec.martial-arts, ninjam@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Marty) writes:
>>On the same subject, I've also heard that warm or hot water is
>>more readily absorbed into the body than cold.  So the
>>general idea being that you should drink warm water to replenish
>>your body's water after a workout.
>>
>>Marty
> 
>      So, you sci.med and/or alt.folklore.* people, any input on this?

and is it also true that Hot/boiling water will freeze faster than
cold water? I know I heard this somewhere a long time ago. Why does it
do this?

-Matt Baya
MBAYA@ANTIOC.ANTIOCH.EDU

Newsgroups: alt.folklore.science
From: chrstie@ccu.umanitoba.ca (William John M. Christie)
Subject: Re: Why does it feel better after a thunderstorm?
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 18:42:07 GMT

Is this Humidity Temperature Index also known as a 'Humidex'?  I noticed on one
of our new cable weather channels that the air temperature was 24 'C but that
something called the Humidex was 26 'C.  Couldn't figure out what that was
supposed to mean since windchill is usually done in watts per square metre.

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From: klaus@diku.dk (Klaus Ole Kristiansen)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.science
Subject: Re: SI system (Was Re: Byte me : ) (Was Re: Writing portable code))
Date: 28 Jul 92 09:00:55 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, U of Copenhagen

rf@cl.cam.ac.uk (Robin Fairbairns) writes:

>I have long assumed that the Sumerian fixation on multiples of 60 was
>the basis of our time system.  I have been _told_ that it's the basis
>of the degrees-minutes-seconds method of measuring angles.

The minutes and seconds of angle messurement is a relic of a time when
all fractions were (or could be) written like this. The next lower
unit was the terts (secondary, tertiery), I don't think that lower
units had names, but in theory you can go on indefinitely.  1'''''
is 60^-5.

Klaus O K
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.science
Subject: Re:Why does it feel better after a thunderstorm.
From: srcriro@chv.dsir.govt.nz
Date: 30 Jul 92 12:26:05 +1200
Organization: DSIR, Lincoln, New Zealand

Jon Rossie <jrossie@leopard.cs.indiana.edu> complains that the thunderstorms in
Indiana dont carry the sense of relief and well-being of those on the East
Coast. I have noticed a similar effect here in Canterbury, South Is, New
Zealand when we get showers from the North West. Thunderstorms are very rare
here, perhaps 5 a year max, and then usually brief, but we do get the sense of
well-being following a Southerly squall. 
 
Our Nor-wester is a dreaded Fohn or Falling wind and can be a real bitch,
especially to susceptible people. It is usually warm, especially in the summer,
often accompanied with a leaden overcast sky and low humidity. On the odd
occasion that rain is blown over from the Southern Alps, about 50-60km west of
Christchurch, the sense of well-being is absent afterward. 
 
Are the "dead" thunderstorms of Indiana carried on the Fohn wind off the
Rockies? (Pardon if my geography is a bit off.)
 
srcriro@chv.dsir.govt.nz  aka Ian Orchard on my better days.
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.science
From: baylor@force.ssd.lmsc.lockheed.com
Subject: Re: Water and Alcohol
Reply-To: baylor@force.ssd.lmsc.lockheed.com
Organization: LMSC, Sunnyvale, California
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 92 23:15:49 GMT

In article <5149@transfer.stratus.com>, moser@sw.stratus.com (Tom Moser) writes:
>In article <lsh1.711986904@Ra.MsState.Edu>, lsh1@Ra.MsState.Edu (Shane Hebert) writes:
>> I seem to remember something about if you mix alcohol and water,
>> the end volume is less than the sum of the two volumes seperately.
>> i.e.	I have a quart of water and a quart of alcohol,
>> 	I pour the two into a big jug.  What I have left is less
>> 	than two quarts of the alcohol water mixture...
>> 
>
>If you like this trick try taking a bottle packed full of sugar and 
>adding water. You can pour in almost another full bottle of water to the
>bottle which is full of sugar.
>
>This does not work with sand.
>
>-Tom
& if you want to get REAL sneeky, play with flour. Dry flour can be made
to settle considerably by tapping the sides of a container that didn't
appear to be quite large enough.
*I* was impressed when a friend showed me this.
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.science,alt.folklore.urban
From: davew@fig12.cray.com (Dave Wagner)
Subject: Re: Microwaved cat explodes
Originator: davew@fig12
Organization: Cray Research, Inc.
Date: 31 Jul 92 09:08:40 CDT


In article <bs99q6.lg3@wang.com>, dbushong@wang.com (Dave Bushong) writes:
> ecmtwhk@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz (Thomas Koenig) writes:
> 
> >The following story was told to me by a friend, who said she knew the person
> >who had done it.
> 
> >A man put a cat into microwave to dry; when taken out, the cat was
> >curiously stiff, and when he set it down, it exploded.
> 
> >[...]
> 
> I love this.  Let's see:
> 
> 	FOAF
> 	Cat in mic, explodes
> 	Possible explanation using abridged principles of physics
> 
> Yep!  It belongs here!
> 
What's the matter?  Is expermentation a dirty word these days?  You'd think
someone would finally get around to trying this, and publish the results in
a reputable journal (Adventures in Microwaving from Montgomery Ward would,
I'm sure, be glad to get this 'recipe' and glossy photographs)    ;-)
-- 

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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.science
From: gmw1@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Gabe M Wiener)
Subject: Re: Scanned record players
Reply-To: gmw1@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Gabe M Wiener)
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 04:29:56 GMT

In article <1992Jul20.061300.5689@ptcburp.ptcbu.oz.au> michi@ptcburp.ptcbu.oz.au (Michael Henning) writes:
>
>The record player in question did indeed exist and was owned by the founder
>of Sony Corporation who was a passionate collector of audio curiosities
>(I forgot his name, he died recently).
>It was a small red VW Beetle car model. The pickup needle stuck down from
>underneath, and the record was played when the car was running around on
>the stationary record, following the grooves. According to the German hifi
>magazine "Audio", it worked, but only for a few seconds at a time (the car
>lost tracking frequently). All this info is from an interview "Audio" did
>with aforementionend founder of Sony. It was published approximately four
>years ago, complete with photographs of the "Beetle Pickup".

Yes, I saw the issue.  I still have it somewhere.  It was an April issue.
I also have the sequel that came out about a year or so ago with the CD
model with the sportscar.  

Some people will believe *anything* 


--
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gmw1@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu       to be seriously considered as a means of 
N2GPZ in ham radio circles        communication. The device is inherently of
72355,1226 on CI$                 no value to us." -Western Union memo, 1877
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.science
From: keithd@bigguy.timeplex.com (Keith Dickinson)
Subject: Re: Water and Alcohol
Organization: Ascom Timeplex Inc.
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 11:10:47 GMT

In article <1992Jul28.211832.23806@gagme.chi.il.us> anton@gagme.chi.il.us (Andrzej Borowiec) writes:
>>Yes.  Mixing 50 mL of methanol and 50 mL of water gives you about 95 mL of
>>solution.

>But if you try the same experiment with ethanol the mixture has the
>tendency to disappear faster than you can make it.
>Unless you start with 500 ccm volumes.

Yes but is it due to:
	1> Chemical reaction??
	2> Some sort of evaporative responce by the ethanol??
	3> The fact that you and your 20 friends are drinking it???

L8r G8r
 Keith