Welcome to the first Petri Dish episode recorded in 2020! This one is about the science behind the effects of booze (ethanol), and our current best understanding of what hangovers are and what you can do about them! Would this episode have been more apropos if released closer to New Year's Day? Maybe, but we were all too hung over, so whatever. Tune in for a brief history of alcohol, a discussion of what ethanol does to you, and whether that stuff about a glass of wine a day being good for you is real or not. Do hangover cure IV bangs work? Did you even know that was a thing? What about prairie oysters? Doesn't that sound more like a euphemism for poop than a hangover cure? Tune in!References:https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/164_2017_80https://www.nature.com/articles/s41698-017-0038-6https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6164842/https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlehtml/2016/mb/c5mb00740bhttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0890623813000774https://academic.oup.com/alcalc/article/54/3/196/5420612https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/ben/cdar/2016/00000009/00000002/art00005 https://academic.oup.com/alcalc/article/43/2/124/122754https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/4460229https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1365-2362.1976.tb00498.xhttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0306452214002851https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s41782-017-0008-7https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2275637https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/28aa/8f3c4fdceedb3a6eec5b80e744b71465167a.pdfhttps://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/hup.2600https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlehtml/2014/fo/c3fo60481khttps://www.hindawi.com/journals/apm/2012/617942/https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0741832919300825