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...when they sent off their paper to Nature as a result of the toss of a coin. Anyway, he said, ?I think I should have been first.? Nonetheless, skeptical colleagues in Cambridge for some months thereafter kept calling the double helix the WC structure (after the Brit jargon for toilet), because, said Watson with a triumphant grin, they were sure that?s where it would wind up. Predictions from the Future of Life conference for the year 2010: By then we?ll have sequenced the complete tree of life, possibly even breeds long extinct, including the common ancestor of humans...
Next time you change your toilet paper, take a closer look at the empty roll. The world is filled with products that rely on the indispensable yet banal cardboard tube—tape, saran wrap, cloth and, of course, toilet paper. Yet for most people, cardboard tubes are simply collateral damage destined for the garbage can. Not so for architect Shigeru Ban, who sees them as the newest building material...
...structures are made from materials ranging from to plywood and wooden joints to wire, bolts, aluminum sheets and large, sturdy paper tubes which resemble the kind that hold toilet paper. The paper tubes, which Ban has dubbed “evolved wood,” may quite possibly be the perfect building material: they are cheap, recyclable, capable of bearing large loads, can be quickly assembled and can be made waterproof and fire-resistant. Structurally speaking, the paper tubes and the plywood, both lightweight and relatively flexible, form the bulk of the structure while metal or wood reinforce joints...
...police station, I was held in a 3-meter-by-4.5-meter cell with up to 15 other detainees. The conditions were foul. There was one squat toilet in the floor of the cell and neither soap nor drinking water. We were told to drink from the toilet tank. On the third day I got dysentery. We slept without blankets on the bare concrete floor. The mosquitoes were relentless...
Ellis joked about the good times he shared with students, from long conversations to chasing students trying to take too much toilet paper, yelling “Only...