Skip to content

Main Navigation

  • Home
  • The Ig Nobel Prizes
    • 2022 Ceremony
    • About the Igs
    • 24/7 Lectures
    • The Ig® Archive
    • Past Ig Winners
    • Donate to the Igs
  • Publications
    • Magazine (Annals of Improbable Research)
    • Newsletter (mini-AIR)
    • Classics
  • Podcasts & Videos
    • Podcast
    • Improbable TV
  • Events
    • Upcoming Events
    • Past Events
  • Press Clips
  • Luxuriant Hair Clubs for Scientists
  • Store
  • Info / Contact Us
  • About Marc Abrahams
This is Improbable Too
Shop the Improbable Research Store
Get books about improbable research and the Ig Nobel Prize

Tag: Coffee

“Why do I always spill my coffee?”

November 25, 2021 Marc Abrahams

Oxford maths PhD student Sophie Abrahams explicates the Ig Nobel Prize-winning research on what happens when one walks backwards while (or whilst) holding a cup of coffee. The 2017 Ig Nobel Prize for fluid dynamics was awarded to Jiwon (Jessie) Han, for studying the dynamics of liquid-sloshing, to learn what happens when a person walks […]

Arts and Science, Ig Nobelbackwards, Coffee, Physics, spills, walks

Colorful Use of Coffee

August 26, 2021 Marc Abrahams

Methylene blue, methyl orange, and a jug of coffee commune almost poetically, with the third of these acting attractively in opposition to the first two, in this newly published study: “Carbon Adsorbents from Spent Coffee for Removal of Methylene Blue and Methyl Orange from Water,” Inga Block, Christina Günter, Alysson Duarte Rodrigues, Silvia Paasc, Peter […]

Research NewsCoffee, color, methyl orange, methylene blue

Recent Ups and Downs of Coffee Enemas

May 4, 2021 Marc Abrahams

Two recent medical studies add milk and sugar, so to speak to what we know, medically, about coffee enemas. Up with Coffee Enemas (2020) “Coffee Enemas: A Narrative Review,” Linda L Isaacs [pictured here], Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine, vol. 21, no. 12, December 2020. The author, an M.D. in Austin, Texas, explains: Coffee […]

Arts and Science, Boys Will Be Boys, Research NewsCoffee, enema, medical

The Reason You Will Spill Coffee, No Matter How Careful You Are

February 17, 2021 Marc Abrahams

When a person walks while carrying a full cup (with no lid) of coffee, it is almost inevitable that some coffee will spill. Two Ig Nobel Prizes have honored research that analyzed why. Small Expedition Room produced this video news report [in Korean] about the phenomenon: Those Two Coffee-Spill Ig Nobel Prizes The 2012 Ig […]

Ig Nobel, Research NewsCoffee, fluid, Physics, spill, walk

Using Hot Coffee to Dislodge Meat in the Throat

December 17, 2020 Marc Abrahams

If someone has a hunk of meat stuck in their throat, should you advise them to drink a mouthful of hot coffee to dislodge the meat? This study suggests an answer to that question. “Esophageal Hematoma Associated with the Bolus Ingestion of Hot Coffee,” Yorinari Ochiai, Daisuke Kikuchi, and Shu Hoteya, Internal Medicine, epub 2020. […]

Arts and Science, Research NewsCoffee, meat, medical, throat

Coffee as a medical treatment for Covid-19

November 21, 2020 Marc Abrahams

Is coffee an effective medicine to deal with Covid-19? A large team of researchers in France and the UK explore whether that question—the question, not the coffee—is a good way to get people thinking about: how difficult it can be to find an effective treatment for any problem, and how easy it can be to […]

Arts and ScienceCoffee

Coffee and Cow Manure: In Search of the Optimal Inoculum

September 2, 2020 Marc Abrahams

Man and woman’s yearning for perfection, in this case perfection keyed to the deployment of coffee and cow manure, is the driving force behind this new study: “In Search of the Optimal Inoculum to Substrate Ratio During Anaerobic Co-Digestion of Spent Coffee Grounds and Cow Manure,” Çağrı Akyol, Waste Management and Research, epub 2020. The […]

Arts and Science, Research NewsCoffee, cow, manure

Coffee, Tea, and Mood Experiments

August 29, 2020 Marc Abrahams

“Coffee, Tea, and Mood Experiments” is a featured article in the special Coffee, and Tea issue (volume 26, number 4) of the Annals of Improbable Research. If you indulge in a cup of coffee or a cup of tea, inform yourself—in a tiny and certainly iffy way—as to what you might be doing to your […]

Arts and Science, Magazine (AIR), Research NewsCoffee, mood, tea

Instant Coffee: Remove Then Re-Add the Smell

August 28, 2020 Marc Abrahams

One time-consuming way to make instant coffee from coffee—in a factory—involves removing most of the coffee aroma, then later adding it back to the coffee, so that later still—when someone makes the instant coffee in preparation for serving it to someone who will, still later still, drink  it, it smells like coffee. A new study […]

Arts and Science, Research Newsaroma, chemistry, Coffee, instant, smell

What does coffee do to your brain: The eternal question

August 27, 2020 Marc Abrahams

“Coffee and the Brain: Attention, Make, React, Threat” is a featured article in the special Coffee, and Tea issue (volume 26, number 4) of the Annals of Improbable Research. It gurgles into the seemingly eternal quest to understand how coffee affects what the drinker thinks and feels, and does not think or feel. Read the […]

Arts and Science, Magazine (AIR), Research Newsbrain, Coffee, emotion, mind

Posts navigation

  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • …
  • 10
  • ❯
Buy This Issue
Subscribe
  • Arts and Science
  • Boys Will Be Boys
  • Ig Nobel
  • Improbable Investigators
  • Improbable Sex
  • Improbable TV
  • LFHCfS (Hair Clubs)
  • Magazine (AIR)
  • mini-AIR
  • Newspaper column
  • Podcast
  • Research News

"The benefits of carrying rhinos upside down and other absurd investigations of 2021" @LaVanguardia https://t.co/kCqhRAFlLU

— Improbable Research (@improbresearch) December 31, 2021

Subscribe to MINI-AIR

loader

Follow AIR & Ig folk on Twitter and Facebook!

AIR personnel
Improbable Research
Marc Abrahams
Robin Abrahams
Fiona Barclay
Gary Dryfoos
Rose Fox
Martin Gardiner
Erwin Kompanje
Julia Lunetta
Gwinyai Masukume
Kees Moeliker
Mason Porter
Sid Rodrigues
Geri Sullivan

Ig Nobel Prize winners
Dan Ariely
Craig Bennett
Elena Bodnar
Glenda Browne
John Culvenor
Deepak Chopra
Theodore Gray
Jasmuheen
Karl Kruszelnicki
Donatella Marazziti
Dan Meyer
Geoffrey Miller
Sun Myung Moon
Gauri Nanda
Dr. Nakamats
Ron Popeil
Andrea Rapisarda
Dorian Raymer
Daniel Simons
Richard Stephens
Brian Wansink
Anna Wilkinson
Philip Zimbardo
Rolf Zwaan


Copyright ©2022 : .