Deborah Blum’s new book, The Poison Squad, is a true story about how Dr. Harvey Washington Wiley, named chief chemist of the U.S. Department of Agriculture in 1883, conducted a […]
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Interview with Jessica Zinskie: How Drinking Beer Is in Our DNA
“It’s in our DNA to drink beer…Our hominid ancestors evolved a digestive enzyme for alcohol, ADH4. This enzyme that metabolizes ethanol appeared around the time our primate ancestors transitioned from […]