This week we found out how to brew booze at home and learned why you shouldn’t throw your coffee cup into space. (Last week was brought to you by Liz Lemon.)

You can make your own alcoholic ginger beer:

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Samuel L. Jackson is going vegan — but it turns out vegetarians have worse health:

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These edible water bottle blobs look really hard to drink from:

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If you sent them into space, discarded K-Cups would circle the Earth almost 11 times:

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