# Why Does Coffee Spill?

*Your tax dollars at work*

By [Right Man in the Wrong Place](https://paragraph.com/@rmwp) · 2016-06-04

politics

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"Walking with Coffee: Why does it spill?"  
  
Funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. Thank you, government, for spending $170,000 on such an important study.  
  
This may surprise you, but apparently if you don't want your coffee to spill you should put a lid on it.  
  
[http://journals.aps.org/pre/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevE.85.046117](http://journals.aps.org/pre/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevE.85.046117)

(This post was originally made on Facebook. The date has been set to match the original.)

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