One faithful and astute reader recently pointed out to us that August was rapidly running out of days to celebrate, and we had yet to design...

A while back we had a string of bread loaf duds.  As in, we were making the bread the same way as we always had, it just wasn't risi...

When we moved into our new place, the mailbox was perched precariously on a rotten board bolted to a cock-eyed 4" steel pipe protruding...

On Thursday, we wrote about the second law of thermodynamics, which explains, in a sense, why clutter seems to naturally increase around a ...

The second law of thermodynamics says, in one phrasing, "the entropy (or 'disorder') of a closed system is (essentially) alw...

Last summer, our friendly neighbor gave us a big orange bowl, a bag of dirt, and a packet of lettuce seeds. She asked if we could grow the l...