The curse of the Super Bowl: Strikes pretty much anybody in the same city. You might think that males are more likely to be die-hard football fans, and thus more susceptible to a physical response to a loss by the home team, but a study of general mortality in the days following a Super Bowl loss shows that isn't so. The increased mortality that occurs after a loss struck the elderly preferentially, but that's about it. They also saw the largest protective effects when the home team won, as did—surprise—women. So, if your mom, wife, or girlfriend says she's not interested in the game, you should tell her to root for the home team for her own health.
Forget competing with food, now they're talking about competing with tequila: Although corn-based ethanol hasn't worked out well as a biofuel, there are plenty of other plants that might do better. The latest one to capture the attention of some researchers: the agave, better known as a key ingredient in tequila. There's an entire issue of a journal devoted to pondering whether different species of agave might make good biofuel raw materials. When it comes to Agave tequilana, however, the answer seems to be a definite no. If we try to use the bits of the plants that don't go into booze, then the economics of it work out to be significantly worse than corn-based ethanol.
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