Chisels are cutting tools with a characteristically sharpened metal edge at one end designed to cut or shape metal, wood, and stone. A handle on the opposite end of the blade enables a firm grasp with ...

One recent effort is a toolchain that starts with Chisel. The idea behind Chisel is to provide Scala with Verilog-like constructs. If you want, you can use it as a “super Verilog” taking ...

Framing anchors, framing hangers, and framing ties are used for anchoring rafters and trusses to plates, floor and ceiling joists to headers, and solid blocking to plates. Framing anchors are ...

Twist drill A standard drill bit with two twisted, fluted cutting edges to remove material Wood Flat drill Has a flat face, a pin at the bottom, and two cutting edges. Allows for a flat blind hole ...

This cognitive bias is known as the framing effect, and it has a major impact on the decisions we make every day. The way information is presented often determines how we perceive that data and ...

A program that prepares individuals to apply technical knowledge and skills in the laying and/or setting of exterior brick, concrete block, hard tile, marble and related materials, using trowels, ...

Scientists need to see and critique evidence for themselves. That is what science is not a collection of facts to be ...

The thing’s sentimental value exceeds its utility. Plus it seems like everyone who does things around the house should have a framing square but that rule of thumb still never has me pulling it ...

Hector the Deinonychus highlights how, like works of art, fossils too can be sold to the highest bidder. That has ...

A grizzled New England contractor hired me to help fix old historic buildings. At the Mayflower Society House in Plymouth, my ...

Fossilized dinosaurs are emerging as a new asset class, subject to the whim of the market, exposed to the laws of supply and ...

It was easy to take for granted, amid all the hype which helped fill to the brim this circus tent plonked in the Entertainment Quarter, that Cold Chisel’s 50th-anniversary tour is a remarkable ...