Category: Paper

A Toilet Paper Emergency? Paper Shortages Loom for America

A paper shortage is looming in the U.S. economy, a new report warns. The global supply chain crisis is creating problems in the pulp and paper sector, one of the world’s largest industries. This could result in diminished supplies of toilet paper, product labeling, bank statements, and even election ballots. Paper demand is up more…


A Toilet Paper Emergency? Paper Shortages Loom for US

A paper shortage is looming for the U.S. economy, according to a new report. The global supply chain crisis is creating problems in the pulp and paper sector, one of the world’s largest industries. This could result in diminished supplies of toilet paper, product labeling, bank statements, and even election ballots. Paper demand is up…


Amazing Japanese Artist Hand Cuts 3-Dimensional Octopus From a Single Sheet of Paper

Rendered by hand and as delicate as fine lace, this Japanese artist’s paper-cut art is winning people over with its impressive and incredible details. Born in 1973, Masayo Fukuda—known as “Kiriken Masayo”—has mastered the art of kirigami, or paper cutting, with about 30 years spent studying the intricate practice. The talented artist who hails from…


Artist Uses Fine Blades to Create Mind-Blowing Papercut Works of Art From a Single Sheet of Paper

For the past 10 years, Pippa Dyrlaga, an artist based in Yorkshire, England, has been employing fine blades with an oh-so-delicate touch to create intricate traditional papercut works. Drawing inspiration from things she sees around her and amidst the natural environment, Pippa cuts each work from a single piece of paper. “The simplicity of a…


UK Artist Hand-Cuts Paper Sculptures Inspired by Nature That Will Take Your Breath Away

A UK artist makes precision cuts into colored paper to create sculptures of breathtaking detail. Her works depict multifarious forms from nature, and are so detailed you’d be forgiven mistaking them for entomological specimens in an exhibition. Starting her career as a graphic designer and animator, Lisa Lloyd from Sussex was based in London for many…


Ex-NYT Reporter Donald McNeil Jr. Hits Paper’s Leadership Over Ouster

A former New York Times reporter who left the paper under contentious circumstances last month has pushed back on the notion that he’s racist and criticized the paper’s leadership. Donald McNeil Jr. departed the paper after his use of a racial slur while leading an official student trip surfaced in news reports, stoking anger among…


Holiday Reflections on Covid-19

“Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation,” wrote the 20th-century English philosopher and political activist Bertrand Russell, “can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.” Our lingering experience with the pandemic proves the truth of his words. Governors like Tom Wolf, Gavin Newsom, Andrew…


The Good King

And so, in the last days of this cycle of darkness, the Good King removed his armies’ high command, who were not loyal to him, and he replaced them with those who were honorable and who were perfectly placed to stand with him to save the kingdom and its shining city on the hill. And…