13 Days of Halloween Penance. Season 4 of the award-winning horror fiction

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If I am under arrest, you have to tell me what I'm charged with.

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Please, you've been some kind of mistake. I'm not supposed to be here.

How do you know? I'm innocent.

Are any of us truly innocent?

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Hi, Brain Stuff. I'm Lauren Vogelbaum, and this, this is another classic from our archives.

In this episode, we consider coffee, which I am drinking as I write this intro.

Every few years, it seems there's another round of mildly sensational headlines about how

it's great for you or the very worst. So, let's break down the science.

Hey, Brain Stuff, Lauren Vogelbaum here. Coffee is a beverage with lore and legend as rich as

a double caramel latte, but far more contrary. An advertisement from the first coffee house in

England promoted coffee as good against sore eyes and excellent to prevent and cure the dropsy,

gout and scurvy. But in the early 1700s, Germans believed the beverage made women sterile.

But an old wives' tale states that if bubbles appear in your Java, you're due to come into

some money, which wouldn't be a bad thing considering the price of a cup of these days.

In more recent times, another idea took hold of the public's imagination regarding coffee,

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