Not a very good explanation. They take for granted that liquid will rush to fill the areas of the drop where evaporation is happening faster rather than the drop just shrinking in size. This really should have been part of the explanation, too.
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This was figured out more than a decade ago.
https://www.livescience.com/15611-physics-coffee-stains-explained.html