The "crumpled paper" exercise is intended to reduce bullying, but is more likely to intensify it. Unlike inanimate paper, living creatures heal from bruises and even get stronger.

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.

PAPER TOSS When sheets of paper were scrunched, variations in surface area (larger on the left) led to balls with different levels of crumpled folding. Surface area is one part of a new equation ...

A page of paper is dead. If it is torn, the tear remains. If it is crumpled, the wrinkles remain. But people are alive. One of the basic characteristics of living beings is that they constantly ...