Wine Should Be a National Pastime

The concordance between wine and baseball should drive our efforts to champion the beverage. (Fermentation/Tom Wark0

This Gmail trick helped me eliminate 80% of the spam in my inbox

'm sure there are people inundated with more email spam than me, but I also suspect that as a tech journalist, I get more than the average person. Every few hours, I need to delete dozens of messages to keep my inbox under control – many of them unsolicited story pitches. (PocketLint/MSN)

What the Numbers Really Say about Gin in the U.S. Market

While overall gin volume sales continue to decline, premium-and-above brands are growing, revealing a category in transition rather than retreat (Seven-Fifty Daily)

One last drink with Esther

In her final installment of the Drinking with Esther newsletter, Esther Mobley, senior wine critic at the San Francisco Chronicle, looks back at how the last decade of California wine has changed her. It's worth a read.

Wine and Fascism

How Mussolini's foodie pals helped launch the vino renaissance. (Robert Camuto – Italy Matters)

Wine Harks Back to the USSR

The current state of the wine industry displays some interesting parallels with late Soviet-era winemaking. (Wine-searcher)

Urine tests confirm alcohol consumption in wild African chimps

An analysis of 20 urine samples from chimpanzees in Uganda found byproducts of ethanol in at least 17 samples, indicating that apes ingest significant alcohol from the fermented fruit in their diet. (UC Berkeley News)

Your Health

Spring forward: Sleep expert warns daylight saving time raises crash totals, health risks

Get ready to spring forward.

Literally — you can prepare yourself.

“The most important thing to do is get enough sleep. This might mean you go to bed early for several nights prior to the time change,” Dr. Emerson Wickwire, psychiatrist with the University of Maryland Medical Center, told The Baltimore Sun.