Illustration: Tomasz WalentaA few weeks ago, my office was invaded by cardboard.
It was a stealth assault, the flattened boxes piling up as the deliveries of equipment, tools and other sundries for a research project flowed in.
This small mountain of cardboard had done me the service of protecting expensive, precious deliveries, but it barely weighed anything and it’s just paper: flimsy and weak.
Paper is something that we habitually underestimate.
Members of the laboratory where I did my doctoral work at Cambridge had a favorite demonstration to impress audiences on open-house days.
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