...where coffee came from.  Juan Valdez told us Colombia, and sure, most of us have had coffee from other parts of Latin America, BUT where did that first glorious berry rear its head?  When the 16th century European botanist Linnaeus was categorizing the "newly discov...

Sleepeducation.org (brought to us by the American Academy of Sleep Medicine—who knew?) tells us that caffeine is a “moderately effective alerting agent” and can improve reaction times, mood, and mental performance.  It works best when taken intermittently.  So, Drink c...

So everyone reads the paper with a cup of coffee; what about reading about coffee with a cup of coffee?  The biggest shared database of library books is WorldCat.org.  What started as an optimistic cooperative cataloging experiment among college libraries in Ohio has b...