Circuit breakers can be frustrating. You're happily bopping through your day, perhaps craving an English Muffin, so you ...

I was once this close to buying an entirely new refrigerator when ours stopped working. As I remember it, we had a power outage during a storm, and everything except the fridge came back online just ...

Once again we’re trying to dispel a modern mystery that lurks in plain sight. For previous columns, click here; to submit your own suggestions, see the e-mail address below. Who indeed? Next time ...

The down-side of being busy and spending ages in the car commuting is that time for making things is limited. The up-side of not finding time to make things, is that you get more time to ponder the ...