In time, a semblance of order emerged. Crumpled wads of paper are no doubt as old and commonplace as paper itself; "graves for failed theories", Gottesman, a physicist, has called them.

And then, there’s how we treat crumpled paper. The experiment on this was ... Even though we’re supposed to put the right stuff in the blue bin, a lot of recyclable material nevertheless ...

Moreover, different types of paper and different sheet sizes generated remarkably similar energy distributions. This finding applied equally to freshly crumpled sheets, to previously crumpled ...

Despite being face down at the bottom of a crumpled paper bag for more than a century, these seven cards are in better condition than the 15 other versions of this card known to collectors.