[Magdalen] Coffee Cups vs Wine Glasses

[Lynn Ronkainen]

...and now having looked at the experiment I have to ask.... does coffee 
have legs if it's consumed from a wine glass?
Lynn
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From: "Allan Carr" <allanc25 at gmail.com>
Sent: Tuesday, September 06, 2016 1:29 AM
To: "Magdalen at herberthouse.org" <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
Subject: Re: [Magdalen] Coffee Cups vs Wine Glasses

> Thinking about it a little late, I should have titled this Coffee Mugs vs
> Wine Glasses.
>
> On Mon, Sep 5, 2016 at 11:04 PM, Allan Carr <allanc25 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Apropos of nothing much, I used to walk from office to office, or around 
>> a
>> factory floor, with a coffee cup perpetually in my hand. From time to 
>> time,
>> i'd spill some of the coffee. Now it comes out that if I'd kept my coffee
>> in a wine glass, my tendency to spill would have been far less. It's 
>> proved
>> by actual experiment by a South Korean physics student http://
>> tinyurl.com/jh9yr2w
>>
>> I always thought the shape of the wine glass had more to do with sniffing
>> the wine, but maybe stability is more important to people somewhat under
>> the influence.
>>
>> However, it looks to me that both the cup and the glass are half full in
>> the experiment. My coffee cup is usually full (it generally gets cold
>> before I drink much of it) and my wine glass (at least with red wine) is
>> less than half full. I think that's why I spilled far more coffee in my
>> lifetime than wine, although if you add in all the wine glasses I knocked
>> over on the table, maybe it comes out about even.
>>
>> Anyway, how many of you (like me) would have picked the wine glass as
>> having less stable liquid, because of the way it sloshes around in the
>> round container?
>>
>> --
>> Allan Carr
>>
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> -- 
> Allan Carr