When I was a kid, everything was on paper. Books were on paper, magazines were on paper, newspapers were on, you guessed it, paper. Nowadays, everything's on the internet, but you can still find paper if you know where to look!
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[Definition]
https://www.adelaide.edu.au/library/special/exhibitions/cover-to-cover/papyrus/
[Trivia Question]
Margaret E. Knight’s paper grocery bags
https://www.moma.org/explore/inside_out/2010/11/03/in-the-bag/
https://lemelson.mit.edu/resources/margaret-knight
https://www.invent.org/inductees/margaret-e-knight
[Fact Off]
Rag paper and mummy linen in the 1800s
https://uh.edu/engines/epi1227.htm
https://www.historyofinformation.com/detail.php?entryid=3874
https://bookpatrol.net/has-this-library-solved-the-mystery-of-the-mummy-paper/
Cellulose nanocrystal films from waste paper
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4639556/
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13369-022-06609-8
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S266689392100075X
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpls.2021.625878/full#
Image of biodegrading film: https://www.frontiersin.org/files/Articles/625878/fpls-12-625878-HTML/image_m/fpls-12-625878-g006.jpg
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/glitter
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41563-021-01135-8
[Ask the Science Couch]
Smell of new books and paper
https://www.compoundchem.com/2014/06/01/newoldbooksmell/
https://www.sciencehistory.org/distillations/whats-that-smell-youre-reading
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/that-old-book-smell-is-a-mix-of-grass-and-vanilla-710038/
https://wwwn.cdc.gov/TSP/PHS/PHS.aspx?phsid=669&toxid=124#
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1309104220302051
https://www.ucop.edu/risk-services/_files/bsas/safetymeetings/ozonefrprinters.pdf
[Butt One More Thing]
Gayetty’s medicated toilet paper
https://www.loc.gov/resource/rbpe.13400600
https://www.findagrave.com/photos/2013/61/106087826_136230829409.jpg
https://books.google.com/books?id=yXY0yQnvmmUC&pg=PA679#v=onepage&q&f=false
