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Clean your drip tray!

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Researchers sampled ten espresso machines and found that most of them harbored coffee residues [in the drip tray] rich in bacteria—including some potentially pathogenic strains.

 

Summary via podcast and transcript, in Scientific American

 

Full journal article in Scientific Reports (via Nature.com)

Imagine all the food you have eaten in your life and consider that you are simply some of that food, rearranged.  -Max Tegmark, physicist

 

Gene Weingarten, writing in the Washington Post about online news stories and the accompanying readers' comments: "I basically like 'comments,' though they can seem a little jarring: spit-flecked rants that are appended to a product that at least tries for a measure of objectivity and dignity. It's as though when you order a sirloin steak, it comes with a side of maggots."

 

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