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November 19, 2011

How Many Sips Are In a Bottle of Beer?

Rhett Allain, Wired


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Wired's Rhett Allain uses the principles of physics to find how many sips it takes him to finish a glass of beer.

"WARNING: Since there is a beer in this post, I will have to ask to see your ID."

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TAGGED: estimation, graphing, physics, Beer

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