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Scientist cause a stir over vanishing teaspoons.
SCIENTISTS have proved what is common knowledge to most people - that teaspoons appear to have minds of their own. A study monitored the movements of 70 secretly numbered teaspoons over five months. Supporting expectations, 80 per cent of the spoons vanished during the period - although those in private areas lasted nearly twice as long as those in communal sections. "At this rate, an estimated 250 teaspoons would need to be purchased annually to maintain a workable population of 70 teaspoons," said researchers from the Macfarlane Burnet Institute for Medical Research and Public Health in Melbourne. Writing in the British Medical Journal, they said their research proved that teaspoons were an essential part of office life and the rapid rate of disappearance proved that this was under relentless assault. Regretting that scientific literature was "strangely bereft" of teaspoon-related research, the scientists offered a few theories to explain the phenomenon. Taking a tip from Douglas Adams's Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy , they suggested that the teaspoons were quietly migrating to a planet uniquely populated by "spoonoid" life. They also offered "resistentialism", in which inanimate objects like teaspoons have an aversion to humans. On the other hand, they suggested, people might simply be taking them.
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