"spoonoid" life forms

Science doesn’t have to be dull as proven by this study reported in the British Medical Journal. Concerned with the disappearance of teaspoons, researchers apparently devised a tag-and-release study to determine the severity of the problem. Some 80% of the tagged spoons disappeared from the public commons during the five-month study.

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' Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy books, they suggested that the teaspoons were quietly migrating to a planet uniquely populated by "spoonoid" life forms living in a spoonish state of Nirvana.

They also offered the phenomenon of "resistentialism" in which inanimate objects like teaspoons have a natural aversion to humans.

As Glenn Reynolds might say, “Heh?”

Next on their list is the missing sock problem.