Thanks for posting, this brings back happy childhood memories :
When I was a kid I used to follow my dad around the farm while he was milking the cows and doing farm work.
He told a lot of stories like this (including the details about the doctors and the king dying first). Other times he told me about scientific studies he had read about etc. I can clearly remember him talking about omega3 in the mid 90ies, way before it became popular around here at least, because I remember asking a particular teacher about it.
(He is now a teacher and enjoys it. I bet his students do too :-)
Edit: I sent the link and he just replied. He read it in a book but sadly that book had less details, not more.
As with all drugs, it's not understood the paradoxical drug effects. Stimulants can make people sleepy, and the most potent of benzodiazepamines can make one more agressive. The endocrine system (also the immune system) is so complex and so full of variables and network effects that I think that science has a long way ahead for a precise scientific understanding of all the positive and negative effects of these drug categories.
If they committed crimes together, not hard. If things like political crimes can be punished by death, even easier. If the king says “get me a pair of identical twins condemned to death” very easy. Go into a poor neighborhood, find a pair of twins and drag them in on an unsolved murder.
Yeah, the cited pages don't seem to have any scholarly references, and one of them notes that "the authenticity of the story has been questioned", so I rather doubt it.
A simple application of Heisenberg's uncertainty principle. After the third pot, you're so focused on your velocity that your location can no longer be determined to be in either the land of the living or the land of the dead.
You know, arguably (and I'm sure historians will differ on this!), but arguably, this is sort of like the Swedish version of Prohibition (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prohibition_in_the_United_Stat...) -- except with Coffee, and except occuring in 1794, some 126 years or so before Prohibition...
Ya know what I want to see?
Somewhere, somewhere in obscure Swedish history, there has to be a version of the U.S.'s Boston Tea Party (1773) -- except occuring with, and solely on behalf of, you guessed it: Coffee...
<g>
(Oh yeah, and to any detractors out there in the HN Community without a sense of humor, feel free to downvote! I have enough HN Karma, I can take it! Hey, I thought it was funny! <g>)
Hmm... Maybe there should be a political party, U.S. and/or Swedish... "The Coffee Party"... (ok, that was overstepping my bounds, yes, that would deserve a downvote! <g>)
[+] [-] eitland|6 years ago|reply
When I was a kid I used to follow my dad around the farm while he was milking the cows and doing farm work.
He told a lot of stories like this (including the details about the doctors and the king dying first). Other times he told me about scientific studies he had read about etc. I can clearly remember him talking about omega3 in the mid 90ies, way before it became popular around here at least, because I remember asking a particular teacher about it.
(He is now a teacher and enjoys it. I bet his students do too :-)
Edit: I sent the link and he just replied. He read it in a book but sadly that book had less details, not more.
Edit 2: FWIW here is a a page from nih.gov: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5355814/
It to still light on the details though, and I don't have time to check all the references now.
[+] [-] emersonrsantos|6 years ago|reply
[+] [-] skinkestek|6 years ago|reply
But, according to a psychiatric doctor I spoke to, some people take it to help them fall asleep.
[+] [-] eirini1|6 years ago|reply
[+] [-] schoen|6 years ago|reply
(Of course, I was also jetlagged, so I'm not sure whether it was actually an effect of the mate.)
[+] [-] _0ffh|6 years ago|reply
Then I thought, "What? Two experiments, but no control group? How disappointing!" :)
[+] [-] grenoire|6 years ago|reply
[+] [-] duxup|6 years ago|reply
For being condemned criminals it sounds like they were well cared for.
Also what are the odds of finding condemned twins?
[+] [-] freepor|6 years ago|reply
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[+] [-] lacogubik|6 years ago|reply
[1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000c4x1
[+] [-] antonvs|6 years ago|reply
Apparently 3 pots of coffee a day makes you immortal.
[+] [-] taneq|6 years ago|reply
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[+] [-] eitland|6 years ago|reply
Secondly you could say that everyone else was the control group as this king taxed tea and coffe and later outlawed at least coffee entirely.
Edit: according to some sources it was his dad who first introduced steep taxes on tea and coffee.
[+] [-] taneq|6 years ago|reply
[+] [-] fapjacks|6 years ago|reply
[+] [-] zepto|6 years ago|reply
[+] [-] peter_d_sherman|6 years ago|reply
You know, arguably (and I'm sure historians will differ on this!), but arguably, this is sort of like the Swedish version of Prohibition (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prohibition_in_the_United_Stat...) -- except with Coffee, and except occuring in 1794, some 126 years or so before Prohibition...
Ya know what I want to see?
Somewhere, somewhere in obscure Swedish history, there has to be a version of the U.S.'s Boston Tea Party (1773) -- except occuring with, and solely on behalf of, you guessed it: Coffee...
<g>
(Oh yeah, and to any detractors out there in the HN Community without a sense of humor, feel free to downvote! I have enough HN Karma, I can take it! Hey, I thought it was funny! <g>)
Hmm... Maybe there should be a political party, U.S. and/or Swedish... "The Coffee Party"... (ok, that was overstepping my bounds, yes, that would deserve a downvote! <g>)