Fly larvae -- fine,
maggots -- that are raised on food spiked with alcohol grow up into flies who can't learn normally without the aid of a little booze juice, marking yet another way in which maggots are pretty much just like college students. A study demonstrating the difficulties maggots experienced while trying to process new information without the aid of a morning beer to take the edge off things appears this week in the journal
Current Biology, which reminds us that
keg stands are not always recreational choices -- sometimes they are educational tools.
Read on...
