Flexible spending accounts and health savings accounts both have tax benefits, but both may also have drawbacks, two reports found....
The Center for a New American Security released a report that weighs the challenges in the developing culture of the still-budding U.S. Space Force and suggests steps that...
If the union wins, it will be a huge momentum booster for the UAW as it seeks to organize more factories. The United Auto Workers union faces the latest test of its...
We’re on the verge of a packaging revolution that will reduce landfill waste and pollution. Despite earning two business degrees and owning a thriving business in its 17th...
While home price appreciation this spring has been about on par with a ‘normal year,’ nationally there has been a great deal of variation. Want more stories from Lance...
Brilliant design is when you can take a waste product and transform it into something badly needed. In 1989 Phil McCrory, an Alabama hairdresser, was shampooing a customer's...
Overnight travel is freaking amazing. I've taken overnight trains and buses in the 'States, Europe and Asia and always loved it. To be unconscious during the boring parts of...
So OpenAI has unveiled GPT-4o, their latest flagship AI. The AI can not only speak—in a disturbingly lifelike way, complete with surprise, chuckles and the like—but can use...
A pickup truck isn't anything without tie-down gear, which all have their pain points. Ratchet straps are the go-to for hauling larger items, but they're overkill for smaller...
As infrastructure spread across America in the 20th century, we learned that bridges periodically need to be inspected. Having a look at the road surface was easy; just shut...
Years ago The New Yorker had a reader contest, asking you to add one letter to a word, to make a new word that made sense. The amusing entry I remember was "giraffiti," meant...
I started out wanting to make fun of this thing, but realize that's my climate-controlled-workplace privilege. I'm lucky I don't work in torching conditions anymore; years ago...
I've seen lots of craftspersons who can join wood to wood. But I haven't seen many who can join wood to stone, with this kind of precision: That's the Wabi-Sabi...
What can you do with tiny offcuts of wood? For Brooklyn-based furniture maker Richard Haining, the scraps of others are the raw materials for his STACKED series of...
This Wind bench, by Belgian designer Peter Donders, combines digital fabrication with hand craftsmanship. Made of birch plywood, the pieces were produced in slices on a CNC...