drinks

Chatting with my mum last night I discovered that she, along with several family members are drinking h2o2 for their health! She seems to be going on Testimony, such as my uncle's amazing change from sleeping 18 hours a day down to 8hrs. Shes already starting to show signs of confirmation bias...

It seems to be a favourite past time of the media these days, catch your attention with a health scare story. This one claims that one *sugar sweetened* soft drink a day will cause 80% of women to become diabetic...

Terminology warning: What this Californian is calling "soft drinks" might be called soda or coke in other parts of the country/world. I was at an airport a few months ago, and saw a little kid who could not have been more than 4 years old or so drinking a soft drink. I personally find this...

I've noticed that if you pour a room-temperature can of, say, Pepsi into a glass with very cold ice (so cold and "dry" that it will stick to your damp fingers), it foams up waaaay more than if you had simply poured it into an empty glass. In fact, the Pepsi will be nearly flat. Is this because...