Day: December 19, 2013

If there’s one liquid capable of getting two people freely — maybe a little too freely — communicating, it’s vodka. And now, you can send text messages with your 80-proof, acetone-flavored breath.

Researchers at York University were able to successfully send and receive the lyrics to “O Canada” by evaporating vodka and using different concentrations of vapor to signify ones and zeros.

But before you start shaking and stirring your way to the world’s first slurred operating system, keep in mind that there are limits. It has to be within a closed space so that the vapor doesn’t drift away unreceived. And you probably have to drink enough vodka to drown a Kossack to breathe your way halfway through “www.bangbros.com” in binary.

But it should make drunk texting easier.

Note: if you’re attempting to go off the grid, having a story written about you that will go online probably isn’t in your best interest. (warning: autoplay in link)

It’s cold and flu season, so it’s important that everyone does their best to stay as healthy as possible. Sure, there’s sleeping and eating right, but ask yourself, “Am I drinking enough booze?”

According to a recent study, there’s a decent chance you need to drink more alcohol to keep your immune system at its best. Researchers at Oregon Health and Science University gave booze or sugar water to 12 rhesus macaques. Some monkeys drank heavily, some moderately, and because some had sugar water, none at all, over the course of 14 months. (Quite a bender, even by our standards.) The scientists found that the moderate drinkers’ immune systems responded the best to vaccines. Which suggests the same thing could be true for humans.

So remember, top yourself off to stay in tip-top shape.