The Top 9 Uses For A Paper Centrifuge

The Top 5 Science list for February 7, 2017

NOTE: A Stanford lab has turned a toy into a cheap, paper centrifuge with potential medical uses in poor places (http://www.nature.com/articles/s41551-016-0009).

9) Beating the rock centrifuge

8) Refining uranium without anyone noticing

7) Helping to prepare paper dolls for their trip to a paper moon

6) Spinning down your long-winded writing into something readable

5) Using it to separate the paper men from the paper boys

4) Texas executions: death by a thousand paper cuts

3) Throwing spit-wads, which has become a class two felony

2) Allowing the morning newspaper to finally reach my front porch

and the Number 1 Use For A Paper Centrifuge…

1) High-G training for the pilots of paper airplanes

Selected from 30 submissions from 12 contributors.
This week’s list authors are:

1: Marshall Gatten, Albuquerque, NM
2: David Zechiel, Lake Forest, CA
3: David Zechiel, Lake Forest, CA
4: Mark Weiss, Austin, TX
5: Paul Wiley, Westtown, NY
6: Jerry Lane, Newark, NJ
7: David Zechiel, Lake Forest, CA
8: Pete Van Opens, Oconomowoc, WI
9: Alan Rice, North Tustin, CA
9: Donald Johnson, Cincinnati, OH
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