I would have loved it if the article had gone into a little more detail about the results beyond stating that in order to cut, the paper had to be neither too thick nor too thin.
>The researchers also noted that some papers, such as those used in dot-matrix printers, are exceptionally good at cutting. They proved this to be the case by connecting a small piece of it to a scalpel and using the results as a "papermachete."
I wonder if anyone (perhaps an artist) has ever cut through a pair of scissors using paper.
Edit: perhaps scissors made of a material capable of cutting paper, but not excessively hard.
I find this hilarious because it's the kind of thing I think about all the time, but never consciously. Every time I handle a piece of paper, of any kind, my brain subconsciously evaluates it for the likelihood that it could cut me, and I change how I handle it based on that evaluation. Especially now that I have an infant daughter who loves ripping up any kind of paper product.
Over the years I've gotten more and more nervous around paper. I think because my most vivid memories of paper are getting papercuts, and the less I use paper in my day-to-day life, the more I associate paper with papercuts and nothing else.
Not really a problem with books, notebooks, pads of post-its etc, but around any individual sheet of paper I really just don't feel comfortable anymore. Dangerous material.
I know they said they test with skin stand-ins, but I still feel bad for all the grad students who had to handle and try to delicately slice with all that paper. You know they got a fair amount of real world data too doing all that!
I got a paper rejected by phys. rev. E :/ a paper of which I thought I might contribute to advancing the available methods for analysing Synchronisation. And while I don’t doubt that they also put a lot of effort in their paper and I love that stuff like this exists and they followed through with their experiments, it seems like they have done it for the lolz. The rejection hurts a bit more now.
It’s been a while since my last cardboard cut, but it is much worse than a normal paper cut. With paper cuts, I can usually “press” my skin back together and go on without any pain, unless I get lemon juice or something in the cut. A cardboard cut is not like that, it is quite painful for the rest of the day no matter what I do.
I’ll hypothesize that the thickness of the cardboard, plus the irregular profile both combine to make the cut much worse
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[ 3.4 ms ] story [ 71.7 ms ] threadhttps://journals.aps.org/pre/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevE.110.0... is the link to the published paper, but behind a paywall unfortunately.
Best part of the article.
There’s also 100% plastic safety scissors this would work on.
https://www.amazon.com/Scissors-Toddlers-Training-Pre-school...
Not really a problem with books, notebooks, pads of post-its etc, but around any individual sheet of paper I really just don't feel comfortable anymore. Dangerous material.
For myself, I find that most paper cuts happen during winter, when my skin is dry. Would regularly using moisturizer reduce their frequency?
I’ll hypothesize that the thickness of the cardboard, plus the irregular profile both combine to make the cut much worse
So much less paper in the world.
/me wanders off, muttering swear words, and in search of a pair of tweezers
(source: was picker in a 3M warehouse)
Source: opening and unpacking boxes while stacking shelves in a supermarket in my youth.