New Proof: Beer is the Answer to Everything (Wired)

Chemical analysis of the bones of ancient Nubians who lived some 2,000 years ago shows they were regular consumers of their own homebrew — an antibiotic beer. The chemist who made the discovery writes about it in a paper published in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology.

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