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How To Make Charcoal With A Paint Can
Video: There’s no reason I need to make charcoal — I don’t normally use it for anything, and if I did, bags of it are so easy to buy. But I find the whole process of exhausting wood sticks into little brittle black pieces so much fun that I’m going to start inventing reasons to…
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This Amazingly Cool Model Bridge Was Made By Year 3 Student
Video: OK, so he had a lot of help from his dad, but this Year 3 student’s school project — a wooden model of the Steel Bridge in Portland — is totally awesome. It has all the moving parts of the real bridge; both the lower and upper decks can be lifted to make way…
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This Could Be London’s First Wooden Skyscraper
Over the past few years, wood has emerged as an unlikely yet desirable material for the design of future skyscrapers. This is what London’s first tall timber structure could look like.
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The Reason Baseball Bats Break Is More Complicated Than You Think
Shattering bats might look cool, but they’re really dangerous for both the players and the fans. Why does that happen, and how come bats always seem to snap in the same way?