Idioms abound. They say that necessity is the mother of invention, and while that may be true, being a cheap bastard also sometimes helps you build stuff inexpensively that might just work(?) As a ...

A crane game filled with raisins was left in the monkey pen at Japanese zoo Nagasaki Bio Park, to see if the animals could figure out how to use the redemption game to get snacks. The crane game was ...

At many large-scale building projects you'll find a 400-ton crane, a huge machine that can work more carefully than you might suspect. These high-capacity cranes are commonly used in places where ...

“That blasted crane is fishing in my pond again,” I heard my father say. I have corrected him many times, but he still refers to the great blue heron as some kind of crane. Many wildlife viewers do ...

Kenneth Awinda does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

“Whooper, eleven o’clock,” whispered one of our guides. On a bitter Nebraska morning in early March, I pivoted in the viewing blind to find a regal, 5-foot-high bird standing among a group of about ...

One of your first major missions in My Time at Sandrock is to build a Crane Lift in “Picking Up the Slack.” While it is a simple task, collecting all the items might be a bit intimidating for new ...

This interview originally ran in the Forward’s books newsletter. To sign up for a monthly tour of the Jewish literary landscape, click here. When I asked Paul Auster what drew him to 19th-century ...