Here’s a new episode — #131, “The Coffee Diet” — of the Improbable Research TV series. “The Coffee Diet” is the concluding song from the mini-opera “The Atkins Diet Opera“. This video shows the debut performance, which was part of the 2004 Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony held in Sanders Theatre, Harvard University. The opera starred […]
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Coffee ring revelations in California
2007 Ig Nobel Physics Prize winner L. Mahadevan and colleagues gave a talk yesterday about the physics of coffee rings. This happened at a meeting of the American Physical Society Division of Fluid Mechanics, held in Long Beach, California. The meeting notes give a bit of detail: Abstract: RU.00007 : Coffee ring deposition in bands […]
Math: An ideal 2nd cup of coffee
There is a best way – mathematically– to pour your second cup of coffee, says a study called Recursive Binary Sequences of Differences that will appeal to anyone who is truly pernickety about their beverages. But no one realised it until the year 2001, when Robert M Richman published his simple recipe in the journal […]
Today’s coffee claim
Today’s coffee claim: “Coffee prevents cancer of the head and neck“.