{"id":1786,"date":"2010-04-26T07:33:49","date_gmt":"2010-04-26T11:33:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicholsclan.com\/tinblog\/?p=1786"},"modified":"2010-04-22T09:51:39","modified_gmt":"2010-04-22T13:51:39","slug":"the-back-end-of-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/2010\/04\/the-back-end-of-science.html","title":{"rendered":"The Back-end of Science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mountaincatgeology.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/04\/chuck_norris_toilet_paper.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"Norris TP\" src=\"http:\/\/mountaincatgeology.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/04\/chuck_norris_toilet_paper.jpg\" alt=\"Norris TP\" width=\"272\" height=\"387\" \/><\/a>It seems that unless you are Chuck Norris (who&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/mountaincatgeology.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/04\/chuck_norris_toilet_paper.jpg\">toilet paper<\/a> is shown to the right), you may be in for a rough ride.\u00a0 The paperless office is finally arriving, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livescience.com\/environment\/toilet-paper-chase-100421.html\">its impact is being felt<\/a> in bathrooms around the world.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe it&#8217;s just me, but I&#8217;ve always thought of toilet paper as almost a kind of scrap paper, certainly not something at the top of the paper food chain.\u00a0 But it turns out that to get that silky smooth texture we all depend on, requires the use of long cellulose fibers with intact cell walls.\u00a0 And this is the stuff of freshly harvested young trees or recycled high quality paper.<\/p>\n<p>The eco-movement has made it less attractive to chop down baby trees just so you can have it baby soft on your butt.\u00a0 And the decline of paper use for printing has resulted in lower amounts of recycled long fiber paper, which means they can&#8217;t Charmanize the blue bucket either.<\/p>\n<p>The end result may be that you wind up paying more for quilted comfort in your nether region.\u00a0 Or you opt to live with scratchier paper.\u00a0 Not to fear though, science is on the job.\u00a0 Chemical companies are working to develop new coatings and other additives that can improve the  softness, strength, and performance of shorter fiber products.\u00a0 Alternatively, maybe someone will figure out the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.poopreport.com\/BMnewswire\/three_seashells_solved_kinda.html\">three seashells<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems that unless you are Chuck Norris (who&#8217;s toilet paper is shown to the right), you may be in<\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\"><a href=\"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/2010\/04\/the-back-end-of-science.html\" title=\"Read The Back-end of Science\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geekypursuits","category-justforfun","category-madscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1786"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1791,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1786\/revisions\/1791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}