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Shinobu Kobayashi is a Japanese woodworker based in Australia, currently studying Scandinavian techniques in Sweden. The three-continent background appears to have done him well; working in concert with a master cabinetmaker from Denmark, Kobayashi manage

#7 Tabitha Babbitt: The Circular Saw
In the early 1800s, two men were required to work a lumb ...
Babbitt's saw was circular so that the teeth would conti ...
As a Massachusetts Shaker community member, she helped c ...

14 August 2015
From the section Glasgow & West Scotland
The MV Loch Shira set idea needs 10,000 supporters befor ...
The mystery designer of a Lego replica of a CalMac ferry ...
Luke Ball, who now lives in Hornsea, East Yorkshire, des ...

86th Birthday Rage

According to Tolkien, a eucatastrophe in a story often h... darkest moment. When all seems lost – when the enemy s... – a sudden "joyous turn" for the better can emerge.

Art Mapping Event
A two-day workshop for those with an interest in mobile ...

BBC: Pepper X: Eating world's hottest pepper was euphoric, says creator

At one point during the interview with the BBC, a PuckerButt Pepper Company employee, Tom, chimes in on the phone to talk about what it is like to work with his boss.
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Before Almanzo Wilder married Laura Ingalls, the author ...
In this “Homestead Proof,” one A.J. Sheldon, a fello ...
The clerk of the Homestead office certified that Sheldon ...
Having claimed his land, Wilder married Laura in 1885. L ...
Almanzo Wil

Bookshelf Porn is a photoblog showcasing only the best p... bookshelves.

Could Runcible's circular, wood-backed device be the fut...

DERA GHAZI KHAN: At a worl(place dealing with Arabic and... Saudi Arabia, one day Akbar Makhmoor started with the Se... and its definition in Urdu and Seraiki. Now, after almos...
He has never been to a college or a university. A tyre r ...
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Designing electronics is generally cumbersome and expens... until Leah Buechley and her team at MIT developed tools ... electronics just like paper and pen. In this talk from T... Buechley shows some of her charming designs, like a pape...
Leah Buechl

Earlier this week we posted about a letter we received f...
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Sophie’s very polite letter.
“Our work has never ventured into dragons of the mythi ...
... erospace parts. So they thought a dragon was achievable.

Elaborate New Portraits Drawn on Vintage Maps by Ed Fair... drawing
Yr Ods EP Cover, 2013. Pencil on contoured maps showing ...

Fossils found in some of London's most famous landmarks ... to life with the help of a north Wales technology company.
Llandudno-based Livetech are behind a website detailing ...

From a duck to a skeleton to a robot dinosaur: scientist... fabulous kinetic sculpture, called On the Move, to demon... the concept of energy transfer. The Launchpad team at Lo... Museum and Engineered Arts Ltd created this cause-and-ef... events in a

Gustave Moreau

Here’s how chains are assembled

In focus: Incredible raindrops on spiders
By Nate Lanxon
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In pictures: Rare lenticular clouds over West Yorkshire
Cloud over Leeds
Cloud over Denholme
More properly known as Altocumulus Lenticularis, the clo ...
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It’s all for you © Claire Brewster 2013
It is an edition of 20, all hand cut by me, so even thou ...

It’s not everyday you see a book that can be read in s... different ways, and this small book from the National Li... definitely an anomaly. According to Medieval book histor... this 16th century text has a special sixfold dos-à-dos ... back”) bi

Mairi Hedderwick andCherry Campbell Mairi Hedderwick say... in her books is based on her childhood dreams of island life
Mairi Hedderwick did not grow up on a Scottish island, s ...