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Instructions are presented for constructing paper airplanes out of pages torn out of the issue, which were designed by engineers Ken Blackburn and Takuo Toda.

Describes paper made from high-fiber weeds instead of trees, manufactured by Tree-Free Ecopaper. Imported Chinese paper made from hemp and cereal straw; History of hemp paper usage dating back to the founding fathers; Trailblazer Visionpaper and paper made from kenaf; Other paper made from chitin and kudzu.

This article describes how to create a paper airplane that will travel over 100 feet. By using an electric motor powered by a common capacitor and attached to a makeshift propeller. The capacitor charges from a battery pack and then metes out a steady flow of power to keep the propeller spinning for about 10 seconds.

The article presents information on the conversion of private lands into real estate investments in the U.S. The timber and paper companies are entering the boom market of real estate. Plum Creek Timber Co., which is the largest private landowner in the U.S. with 8 million acres in 18 states will go where the dollars are. It will be called a real estate investment trust or REIT.

The article presents instructions for making a paper robot by using X-Acto knife, printer and soldiering iron.

The article focuses on the improvements made on the new dot-matrix printers. It states that such printers can print up to four times faster and can produce high quality graphics. However, critics argues that the letters produced by the dot printers are just similar to those of a typewriter. The near-letter quality, or correspondence-quality, was the main feature of the newer dot-matrix printers.

The article presents a list of the ways that people can reduce the amount of paper in their office, including digitizing documents, recycling waste paper, and backing up their PDF files.

Recommends a decolorable ink developed by Toshiba for paper recycling that can be done within an office. How the ink can be removed from printed pages; Advantage from solvent processing.

The article focuses on the report by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in September 2015 on the decline of forest loss in several countries including India, Philippines, and Austria. Topics mentioned include the insights of Mary Wagner, associate chief of the U.S. Forest Service, on the effects of climate change to forests, the importance of commercial planting to forest expansion, and the effects of pulp and paper industry in South Africa to the tree-plantation industry.

Focuses on a paper-generating computer program SCIgen made by graduate students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge. Use of the program by the students which enabled them to submit fake research papers at the World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics 2005; Reasons of the students for targetting the conference; Background on the research paper Rooter: A Methodology for the Typical Unification of Access Points and Redundancy; Exposure of the profit-generating intentions of the conference.

The article discusses robot inventions that the author criticizes including a toilet paper portion cutter created by Michael Nichols, a machine by Maurice Bos which writes the time on a white board, and a machine that is mounted on runners' shoulders and feeds them tomatoes for energy.

Answers a question about using generic inks and paper in printing photographs. Factors that affect the quality of a printed photograph; Disadvantages of using generic inks and papers.

The article offers information on the single-stream recycling process of Willimantic Waste Paper Co. in the U.S. Topics discussed include machine parts and its function which include the drum feeder in which the mechanical claw dump the waste and put into a spinning drum and distributes the wastes into conveyor belt, the initial sorter which sort things that will not fit in the sorting machine, and the star screen in which smaller items fall through the screens down to the conveyor belt.

The article reports on a experiment in which paper airplanes will be thrown to Earth from the International Space Station (ISS). The highly durable paper from which the paper airplanes are made is the focus of the experiment, the article indicates. The reasons for this experiment, the paper's Japanese manufacturer, and the paper's characteristics are discussed. Recovery of the paper airplanes is also discussed.

Recommends the book "How to Write and Illustrate a Scientific Paper," by Björn Gustavii. Contents of the book; Tips on scientific writing.

The article recommends the use of recycled-content toilet paper. According to the author, about 424,000 trees will be saved annually through the use of the toilet paper. It also notes that saving 424,000 trees is possible if every household in the U.S. will use just one roll of recycled toilet paper per year.

The article offers instructions on creating a Chinese lantern out of a paper tea bag, including comments from Massachusetts Institute of Technology aerodynamics professor Mark Drela on how the process works.

Several letters to the editor are presented in response to articles published in the May 2012 issue including "Paper Lions," which demonstrated how to make paper airplanes, "Jet Setters," an article about airplane fuel economy, and "The Human Element," by C.J. Chivers, about drone aircraft.

Focuses on the electronic voting machines for the 2004 presidential elections in the U.S. Information on the 2002 Help America Vote Act approved by the U.S. Congress; Results of an investigation conducted by Avi Rubin of Johns Hopkins University in Maryland and Dan Wallach of Rice University in Houston, Texas on a proprietary software code that runs AccuVote-TS machine from Diebold; Information on voter-verified paper audit trail.

Discusses the importance of paper in storing data. Disadvantages of electronic storage devices; Proven durability of paper.

The article discusses the release of a U.S. $100 bill with security updates, including a ribbon with images that move when the bill is tilted, in October 2013.

The article offers information on the three materials that can be used in turning a pile of half-burned sticks into flame, which are the paper plate, air-mattress pump, and surgical tubing.

Reports on a research conducted by Elizabeth Tibbetts, a doctoral candidate at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, which shows that wasps recognize other wasps by sight. Differences in the appearances of various paper wasps; Assumption of scientists about the behavior of wasps; Exercise carried out to clear the myth about wasps.

The article offers brief information on the Spyderco Endura4 Flat Ground knife from Spyderco Knives Inc. INSET: TALL TEAL.

Reports on a new paper-recycling technology developed by Ricoh. Method which strips off the toner by essentially reversing the printing process; Pros and cons; Usefulness.

A visualization of patterns in academic citations among scientific disciplines such as neuroscience, microbiology, and mathematics is presented.

The article evaluates the battery-powered electronic notepad called the Boogie Board.

If your rifle holds only three rounds, use this drill to practice topping off the rifle when it runs dry. Using your practice ammo, shoot a five-shot string at either steel or paper. Load four rounds, shoot the rifle dry, then reload one round for five shots total, preferably on a steel target at 100 yards. [Extracted from the article]

This article reports on the major manufacturing advances in electronic newspaper (e-paper). In August 2005, Xerox Gyricon began selling new wireless e-paper signs and media displays, and last year Sony debuted in Japan its LIBRIé Ebook Reader, which features a digital screen that reflects light the way paper does. E Ink Corp. has developed Electronic Ink, a form of electrophoresis that relies on oppositely charged black and white particles suspended in fluid.

Discusses several major electronic newspaper projects that are either under way or in the planning stages. `San Jose Mercury News,' one of the first newspapers to publish a complete electronic edition; Service called Mercury Center; Newspaper publishers investigating electronic versions of their papers; `Clipping' options that retrieve news stories based on key words.

For some, things like fluttering fingers and soft voices can trigger "brain tingles", a pleasurable scalp prickling that cascades soothingly down the body. But researching ASMR and misophonia together could yield new insights into the mechanisms that underlie both, says Agnieszka Janik McErlean, a senior lecturer in psychology at Bath Spa University in England. McErlean's resulting lit search turned up hundreds of YouTube channels dedicated to stimulating ASMR but not a single scientific paper. Experts still aren't sure what causes it or how best to treat suffering patients, but even the small body of existing research provided McErlean with more reference material than her dive into ASMR. [Extracted from the article]

Reports on the study conducted by scientists at the University of Texas at Austin to extract cellulose from a microorganism called cyanobacteria. Applications of cellulose; Sources of cellulose; Characteristics of cyanobacteria.

Introduces the EZ/CD Print inkjet printer.

Reports that Adobe Systems of Mountain View, Calif., has unveiled an innovative new document translation technology called Acrobat that could be a major stride toward a less paper-cluttered era. Features; Competition from No Hands, a product introduced by Palo Alto, Calif., company called Common Ground.

The article reviews Qualcomm Mirasol screens, colored glass touch screens which will be used in electronic book readers such as the Hanvon C18.

The article presents information on games areas in the U.S. including Unitl3 in the Arizona Strip, Hunting District 680 in the Missouri Breaks, and bridger-Teton national forest in Wyoming.

The article evaluates the Reader PRS-500 electronic book reader from Sony.

The article evaluates the Gorilla Glue duct tape and offers information on the price.

The article offers suggestions regarding the maintenance of an automobile. It is advised to insert a paper clip into the slot labeled tach test and clip tachometer lead to paper clip for tachometer hookup. It is suggested to turn off the engine in order to check the fan and switch it on by hand. It is recommended not to pull against the power-steering pump reservoir while tightening its belt as metal-sheet reservoir of pump can easily be damaged.

The article discusses the effects of the sale of forest land by timber companies on hunting in the U.S. Several former timber- and paper company-owned lands are now closed from public hunting. Some of the lands are already being developed wherein wildlife habitats were destroyed while others are bought by states and conservation organizations. With such sell-off, hunters have lost hunting opportunities. Several hunting clubs have lost their leases while the hunters look for other clubs and some even quit hunting.

The article offers information on various hunting animals in the West U.S. for meat including Bighorn Sheep, Mule Deer and Moose. It states that trophy bighorn ram easy to hunt in Montana, mule deer found in southern Utah's Henry Mountains and Colorado and Shiras moose are declining in Montana and Wyoming.

States that a new software program could make sending computer-generated files and faxes much faster than is otherwise possible with a modem or fax machine--and save money in the process. Details on the program, called Fax-O-File, from Fontech Ltd. in Israel.

The article narrates the author's experience of fish printing. He did it by following the instructions of American fish printer Michael Reimer. He started it with bluegill, a fish with large scales. Using hand soap and paper towels he cleaned the slime off his fish, patted it dry, and placed it on a layer of paper towels over a foam board. After putting a clean paper towel under the fish, he put the rice paper down over it. Finally he peeled the paper off to get a print of the fish.

The article presents tips on how to pack dry ice. Two 10 inch square blocks of 2 inch thick dry ice that is a standard 10 pound block will keep 20 pounds of frozen foods frozen for approximately three days. To make dry ice last longer, fill dead air space with wadded newspaper or regular ice frozen in milk cartons. Be careful to wrap the specimen in a towel to prevent the dry ice from creating freezer burn spots or mix dry ice and regular ice to save on shipping weight. Dry ice is available in grocery stores in many southwestern states.

The article focuses on origami expert Erik Demaine. Demaine was not a typical teenager. He went to college at the age of 12, and by 14, he was a graduation student at the University of Waterloo in Waterloo, Ontario. The work he did there sounds whimsical — making paper stars, angelfish and swans — but Demaine was confronting a thorny problem. Namely, which shapes can be made simply by folding a piece of paper, as many times as you like, then snipping off a corner and unfolding it. The answer, Demaine discovered, after two years of calculations and crumpled paper, is any shape you can think of. It is theoretically possible to create any two-dimensional straight-sided shape, from a triangle to the New York City skyline, with a single scissors cut. That elegant theorem, completed in 1998, helped launch computational origami, a hybrid discipline — part computer science, part mathematics — that explores complex geometry concepts inspired by the Japanese art of paper folding. Computational origami has helped engineers figure out how to unfold a telescope lens in outer space without damaging it, and determine the safest way to stow an airbag within a steering column.

The article discusses several tips which one can use and survive in every conditions. Topics discussed include making fire starters, sharps a knife with a rock, and heal the infection by pine gum. It also mentions how to make tripod water filter and oil soaked make toilet paper torch and the things needed like a freshly cut stick, forked at one end and toilet paper.