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Paper types ranked by likelihood of paper cuts
- r-johnv 2y agoI 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. https://journals.aps.org/pre/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevE.110.025003 https://journals.aps.org/pre/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevE.110.0... is the link to the published paper, but behind a paywall unfortunately.
- RobotToaster 2y agoLooks like the paper is on their github https://github.com/Jensen-Lab/PhysicsOfPaperCuts https://github.com/Jensen-Lab/PhysicsOfPaperCuts
- sieste 2y agoI guess there are three Danish academics who will have their teaching load increased next term.
- irdc 2y agoFinally a use for my stash of dot matrix printer paper.
- themaninthedark 2y ago>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." Best part of the article.
- HPsquared 2y agoI 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.
- Retric 2y agoIt’s been done for the non cutting part of scissors: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4fwgRQbwDo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4fwgRQbwDo There’s also 100% plastic safety scissors this would work on. https://www.amazon.com/Scissors-Toddlers-Training-Pre-school-Paper-Cut/dp/B0756X9C3P https://www.amazon.com/Scissors-Toddlers-Training-Pre-school...
- JKCalhoun 2y agoIgnoble recipients right there. Mark your ballots, please.
- impish9208 2y agoIg Nobel. Coincidentally, this year’s ceremony is happening on Thursday!
- danielvaughn 2y agoI 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.
- RheingoldRiver 2y agoOver 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.
- drbig 2y agoAnd now we know better. Beware of magazines and newspapers.
- SamWhited 2y agoI 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!
- puzzledobserver 2y agoWhat about skin types which are most likely to suffer from paper cuts? For myself, I find that most paper cuts happen during winter, when my skin is dry. Would regularly using moisturizer reduce their frequency?
- hoosieree 2y agoHuman, by a wide margin.
- jananas 2y agoI 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.
- baxtr 2y agoYou should resubmit it as print out. Just make sure to take the right thickness so that they get hurt too!
- hinkley 2y agoLikelihood x severity is also an important consideration, as anyone who has cut themselves on cardboard knows all too well.
- flysand7 2y agoI've never had such an experience. How does it feel to be cut with a cardboard?
- pinkmuffinere 2y agoIt’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
- Zenzero 2y agoFeels more similar to getting cut by a kitchen knife. I would not recommend it.
- mannyv 2y agoHow do we nominate this for thr ig nobel?
- euroderf 2y agoNo mention of any effect of clay content.
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- pstrateman 2y agoI haven't gotten a paper cut in years. So much less paper in the world.
- shaftway 2y agoNeat. Now do wood for how often it gives you splinters. Make sure you include Wenge. /me wanders off, muttering swear words, and in search of a pair of tweezers
- _a_a_a_ 2y agoFresh cardboard can be a prize bitch too. Even worse perhaps. (source: was picker in a 3M warehouse)