BREXIT is looming, but it's not all bad news for Britons, some of whom have come up with lucrative ideas to make the most of the uncertainty.
Businessman James Blake has released a "Brexit Box" - a survival kit which he says allows worried people to "control what happens to you by taking control yourself".
The box, which retails for a whopping 295 (about A$540) includes 60 portions of freeze-dried foods, 48 portions of dried mince and chicken, an emergency water filter and firelighter liquid.
Despite government assurances that there is no need to stockpile food for Brexit, Blake has sold hundreds of the kits, which have enough rations to last 30 days.
Here's a chemistry challenge: a case of beer has saved the life of a Vietnamese man who was at risk of dying from alcohol poisoning.
Van Nhat Nguyen, aged 48, had a massive amount of methanol in his system when he was hospitalised in Vietnam's Quang Tri province, according to local newspaper Tuoi Tre.
The methanol was being oxidised to formaldehyde, also producing formic acid which saw him become unconscious.
Doctors decided to pump three cans of beer into his body in an attempt to dilute the alcohol and slow down the metabolic process.
A hospital spokesman explained transfusing beer into his system kept the liver occupied while dialysis removed the methanol.
He was then prescribed a transfusion of one can of beer per hour, and after 15 cans he was in "recovery mode".
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