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- October 21, 2018
A photon checks into a hotel and is asked if he needs any help with his luggage. He says, “No, I’m traveling light.” Anyone know any jokes about sodium? Na Organic chemistry is difficult. Those who study it have alkynes of trouble. Argon walks into a bar. The bartender says, “We don’t serve noble gases
READ MOREGrowing up, my family always replaced the toilet paper in the same way – with the tissues rolling from top to bottom on the outside of the roll. Rolling the tissues in from the opposite direction seemed like a preposterous idea. See Figure A, which clearly demonstrates the correct way a toilet paper roll should be replaced.
READ MOREThe facts of life are always in the gray area. As Alanis Morissette creatively observes in one of her iconic songs, life is just so ironic! It is painfully funny with its twists and turns. There are instances when you wish for people that you once had, or hope that things stay the same. These
READ MOREToilet paper. How should it roll? From the top or from the bottom? People have argued to death about this for years (literally – in the USA alone last year, this debate has been attributed to at least 14 deaths. Or maybe that statistic is made up…). Regardless, we’ve previously discussed this important topic on
READ MOREPackaging isn’t just a technical discipline of developing product enclosures to protect them during distribution and sale. It’s also an art. It’s just we’re so used to the standard package designs that we tend not to notice all the hard work that went into creating them. This is a bit strange — since marketing departments
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