To drink really hot coffee (or hot tea) is to swallow a paradox of pleasure and pain. Hye-Seong Lee, Earl Carstens and Michael O’Mahony, at the University of California, Davis, solved the puzzle, more or less. They explain it in a study, which, for the sake of clarity and directness, they call: Drinking Hot Coffee: Why Doesn’t It Burn the Mouth?…
So begins this week’s Improbable Research column in The Guardian.
Posted by Marc Abrahams on
Thursday, August 30th, 2007 at 12:01 am
under Newspaper column.
