d(w), where w is your weight in pounds, is a linear relationship which defines the amount of pure alcohol you need to drink in one hour or less to reach approximately .08 BAC, and thus be legally drunk.
To translate your pure alcohol number into how much you need to drink of a given beverage, simply divide the results of d by the drink’s alcohol by volume percentage. So a 175 pound man, where d(175) = 2.36, would need to drink 2.36/0.4 = 5.9 ounces of 80-proof vodka in less than an hour to cross the .08 threshold.
Reblogging not because we’re all planning on drinking up to the legal limit or anything (seriously, I don’t even know if that is the legal limit, and I don’t have my driver’s license anyway) but because you should all be following cakesandcourage for his awesome data visualizations (if for no other reason).
Also three and a half shots of vodka in an hour takes me to 0.08 apparently. Not sure if I’d call that drunk, but definitely not suitable for driving.
My father’s old drivers’ license had a table with this same information on the back, and it was a significant part of drivers’ ed. Ah, the eighties.
Maine themed lobster dinner or a really
badawesome photo from a 70s menu.
American teenagers may be falling behind in math, science, and ability to ascend a flight of stairs without passing out, but they’ve proven time and again that they’re world leaders in discovering innovative ways to kill brain cells. Case in point: a half dozen California teens have ended up in local emergency rooms after extracting highly concentrated alcohol from hand sanitizer and drinking it.
The rebels sans cause are turning Purell into moonshine from hell using salt and a distilling method that’s easily discoverable on a place adults call “the internet.” The process yields a liquid that’s about 60% alcohol, or 120 proof, which means kids are only a shot or two of the stuff away from speech and mobility impairment and getting their stomachs pumped. Nothing sexier or more glamorous than having medical professionals forcibly extract your stomach contents with a tube so you don’t die! Youth!
All six hospitalization incidents have occurred in the San Fernando Valley area in the last few months, and doctors say this isn’t the first time teens dabbled in Breaking Bad Teenz Club style antics. In the past, they’ve figured out how to distill alcohol from vanilla extract, mouthwash, and cough syrup, though those methods have now seemed to have fallen out of favor in the face of the much more sophisticated, more glamorous luxury high end deluxe hand sanitizer. It’s truly the Cristal of hobo alcohol.
At least the kids are using chemistry? Applied chemistry? Anyone?
In response, doctors are telling concerned parents that if they must purchase hand sanitizer, they should purchase it in foam form so their dumb but intrepid kids won’t try to extract alcohol from it, and that they should keep their hand sanitizing products under lock and key. They also recommend watching children for signs of intoxication. A drunk kid is a bad sign that something may be amiss, say experts and everyone.
Meanwhile, American news media continues to lead the world in assigning “trend” status to things like five people have done. Now if you’ll excuse me, I have a rainbow party to attend.
OH, HEY SHELLY. I HOPE YOU DON’T MIND, I BORROWED YOUR P90X DVDS. BEACH WEATHER’S ALMOST HERE. GOT TO GET MY CORE TIGHT FOR THE FELLAS, YEAH? TONE MY GLUTES. ALL THE WIGGLY STUFF.
Dreaming about dosas
Maybe the world’s first cat video?! more
When thieves broke into the high school music room here this week, they cut through the bolts on all the storage lockers and ripped two doors off their frames. But they didn’t touch the computer or the projector or even the trumpets.
