"It's just having an awareness of bits of paper floating around, " he tells NPR's Melissa Block.
As he watched bits of paper dancing with the effect of friction, he almost discovered electricity.
Each time, colleagues rush to retrieve the bits of paper before waves suck them into the sea.
As a result, there will not be any need to carry any more bits of paper in our wallets.
Clearing customs in Tajikistan requires 18 bits of paper from different government agencies.
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They worry that, as long as the warehouse is left unscrutinised, Generali has ample opportunity to misplace uncomfortable bits of paper.
Under the fabric the curators found notebooks, newspapers, a letter, a small drawing, some community council papers and other bits of paper.
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Filing those last bits of paper with taxing and state authorities (since corporations are formed under state law) provide that oh-so-important notice.
Often the provincial governor's say-so is needed to obtain land, employment licences and a stack of other bits of paper a firm needs to operate.
Their work includes meeting arcane record-keeping requirements on workers' pay and conditions, and getting the right stamps on the right bits of paper for the sleepy customs service.
They both went in a great hurry, and when they were gone the house seemed dreadfully quiet and empty, and the children wandered from one room to another and looked at the bits of paper and string on the floors left over from the packing, and not yet cleared up, and wished they had something to do.
They bounded in with the exuberance of puppies, strewing the mayor's jobs pledges around the chamber like bits of tissue paper.
As protection against the extremes of temperature and pressure which were to come, he had taken just one precaution - he had stuffed bits of crumpled white tissue paper into his ears.
One machine uses hundreds of chips, each with 188 custom processors, to move 1.2 trillion bits a second, the printed-paper equivalent of 150 pickup truck loads.
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