Elizabeth Bonawitz is, by her own admission and at her own insistence, an empirical girl: Somewhat, but only somewhat, by analogy: Not everyone is an empirical girl:
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Physics: Claiming control of the coffee-stain effect
From Paris comes news of a new class of surfaces that (among other things) offer better control of coffee stains. Details are in the study: “Slippery pre-suffused surfaces,” A. Lafuma and David Quéré [pictured here], EPL (Europhysics Letters), vol. 96, no. 5, 2011. The authors, at Laboratoire de Physique et Mécanique des Milieux Hétérogènes, CNRS, […]