David Rees thinks he knows how to sharpen pencils. He says people have entrusted 1,500 pencil points to his sharpening business. I know a little something about working with sharp pencils, and let me ...

Necessity is the mother of invention, or so they say. [Jason] was in such a situation where he needed to install some safety railing at his grandmother’s house. He didn’t have the necessary tools ...

If you need to a little electrical work, but you don’t have a wire stripper handy, you can make one with a few things lying around the house. In this video from the MAD Science Hacks YouTube channel, ...

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