Watch as we test the properties of oobleck by shooting it with an air cannon at speeds of 300 mph. This video features an oobleck egg versus a bag of oobleck and ballistic gel. Music by David Cutter ...

Tony Adler—venerable Reader theater critic, apostle of Walt Whitman, and not incidentally a colleague and close friend of mine—died Tuesday from complications of pancreatic cancer. He was 71. He was a ...

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When Martina Calvi designed her first scrapbook stickers two years ago, it was intended to be a side project. “I never wanted to run a business, I just wanted to share my art,” she says. But Calvi ...

Forget a new haircut or your favorite outfit — new research shows that the key to confidence may be building something on your own. A survey of 2,000 Gen Z and millennial homeowners and renters found ...

Doing your own car maintenance is a great way to get to know your car. It can also help you save a lot of money over time. The hardest part about working on your own vehicle is getting started. The ...

Jeff Somers is a freelancer who has been writing about writing, books, personal finance, and home maintenance since 2012. When not writing, Jeff spends his free time fixing up his old house. He has ...

Oobleck is a fun, classic science experiment that’s easy to do at home, especially on those rainy days when you can’t get outside! It shows off the properties of a non-Newtonian fluid, a substance ...

Harvard economist Roland Fryer provides surprising insights on how you think about household chores. Americans are obsessed with doing things ourselves. We clean our houses, assemble our furniture and ...

In the current economic climate, Americans are opting to repair and replace over buying new, according to new data. That’s according to new research of 2,000 Americans that found 8 in 10 (80%) U.S.

Oregon dad Mason Smith wants to make the internet a better place, one do-it-yourself project at a time. Known as "Dad Social" to his 12+ million combined social media followers, the father of three ...