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Breaking News: Pencils vs. the iPhone 6

By now you're probably familiar with the mass panic caused by the reported fragility of the iPhone 6. While the folks at OtterBox must be dancing a jig right about now, owners of the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus are clearly struggling to deal with the…

The Pen(cil): Students Design Mechanical Pencils for NASA

Carlos Mencia has a joke about the U.S. spending billions of dollars to develop a pen capable of writing in space, while the Russians just used pencils. The truth is more of a middle ground - both Russia and the U.S. used pencils in space originally,…

Pencil Artist of the Week: James Back

This week’s featured pencil artist is James Back, a pencil artist from the United States who goes by the handle Ysssk on DeviantArt. James creates some truly fantastic pencil drawings using a combination of a standard #2 pencil and some deceptively…

Link Between Childhood Drawing and Intelligence

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Researchers at King's College London have found a correlation between childhood drawings at the age of 4 and intelligence. Using what they called the "Draw-a-Child Test," researchers studied 7,752 pairs of identical and non-identical twins.…

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