“If you are just able to decode the words, but you don’t have the context to understand them, you’re not getting to that effective, efficient, purposeful reading for meaning,” explains Dr. Molly Ness, ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. – Some assembly required. It’s the consumer’s lament, the do-it-yourselfer’s Everest, the bane of parents lost in a sea of toy parts and diagrams on Christmas morning. “It’s amazing ...

Lego has made amateur architects out of millions of kids, not to mention their parents. Their sets do have a problem with longevity, though, and it’s not so much that those tiny bricks aren’t durable ...

Since the LEGO system was introduced in the mid-1950s, the sets of interlocking blocks, figures, and other pieces have been popular with people of all ages (except, maybe, the people who accidentally ...

So you have fabrication skills, a decent set of tools, welding ability, and some spare time you can set aside every week, but you're down on dinero? Well gang, there's no reason you can't build a ...

If you are limiting yourself to only 16 instructions, which ones should you chose, and how do you manage without the ones that fall by the wayside? In my previous column on our project to build a ...

Adam Pickard is a big fan of Ikea’s augmented reality app that lets you try out furniture in your home before buying it. But Pickard apparently thought a smartphone could be just as useful during the ...

UC Santa Cruz is moving forward with preliminary design for a new building that will accommodate the undergraduate teaching programs currently held in Thimann Laboratories, following approval from the ...

PRESIDIO OF MONTEREY, Calif. - Officials from the Presidio of Monterey, the Department of Defense, the Defense Language Institute and the City of Monterey joined the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers ...