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I Drank a Cup of Hot Coffee That Was Overnighted Across the Country

• michaelmior 12y ago
  Not quite "across the country", maybe halfway. Still rather impressive.
• mikestew 12y ago
  Alternative title: "New Users of Vacuum-Insulated Containers Amazed at How Well They Work". I've used vacuum-insulated containers for decades, and as I read the article I kept waiting for a punch line that never came. The whole point of the article was "wow, it can keep coffee hot for 24 hours". Has the author seriously never opened a day-old Thermos of coffee and drank some? As a side note, Thermos suffers from Kleenex syndrome as the only short version of "vacuum-insulated container" I can come up with is...Thermos(tm). But Wikipedia not only has a better generic name ("vacuum flask"), it also has the interesting history of how Dewar never patented it, and the glassblowers who did the work for him started Thermos: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuum_flask http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuum_flask
  • zem 12y ago
    i believe a lot of the scientific community used to call them "dewars" (i've seen the name used in old sf stories). not sure if that still prevails anywhere.
• joshu 12y ago
  Ew, clean your coffee mug.
• qq66 12y ago
  What a stunningly successful PR exercise. The Atlantic will cover it and explicitly mention that its a PR campaign -- essentially, news coverage of PR.