A class of fifth-graders from Green Acres Elementary in Lebanon, Ore., asked us to find out how pencil lead is made. That quest took us all the way back to the dawn of the universe and then all the ...
NOW IS A good time to revisit Leonard Read’s essay. In 1958, Read examined how a pencil is made — how it is miraculous that a pencil is made at all. The standard pencil begins when a cedar is cut down ...
“Yes of course,” and the lady at the counter hands me a cigarette. I awkwardly resist and say “I actually do need a pencil.” She judges me a bit and hands me one, probably wondering why an adult might ...
John Erlandson’s first idea for the reuse of scrap tires was to replace expensive cement grave-liners with a rubber casket vault. The notion popped into his head while he was selling grave markers, ...
Michael Stausholm turned a simple plantable pencil into SproutWorld, a global brand inspiring sustainability one small idea ...
No, put the school supplies list down. Not for kindergarteners but for you, the fashionable and tastefully affluent New Yorker who knows how to recognize a Caran d'Ache pencil carved of beechwood in ...
Following is a transcript of the video. Narrator: Benefit Cosmetics is one of the top beauty brands for eyebrow products. It's Precisely, My Brow pencil is one of its best-selling products. On average ...