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The Science Behind the World's Most Popular Drug

If you ever want to feel appreciated at work, try putting on the first pot of coffee for a bunch of sleep deprived college students and professors. Grateful does not even begin to describe it. Everywhere you go people love their coffee. So what's the science behind this funny little molecule?

Last year I worked at a coffee shop on ÎÛÎÛ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵ campus. If you ever want to feel appreciated at work, try putting on the first pot of coffee for a bunch of sleep deprived college students and professors. Grateful does not even begin to describe it. Everywhere you go people love their coffee – 90% of North American adults consume some form of caffeine daily, making it the most widely used psychoactive drug of all time. So what's the science behind this funny little molecule?

Image by Cassandra Lee.

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