The Obvious Answer to the Disappearing Teaspoon Question

According to a recent article in the British Medical Journal (seen via Zoe Brain), there has been a mysterious tendency for teaspoons to disappear from academic tearooms. The article (and its comments) somehow omitted the most obvious explanation: The teaspoons have been bodily taken up to the Land Where Teaspoons Are Eternally Blessed in a Rapture of the Teaspoons.