AN OUTLANDISH, IMAGINATION-TESTING TASK: When you were a kid tasked with doing something a bit offbeat, you jumped at, beginning before you got all of the directions. Construct a rocket ship out of ...

We all know how important it is to achieve balance in life, or at least so the self-help industry tells us. How exactly to achieve balance is generally left as an exercise to the individual, however, ...

Some combinations of material and machine just don't sound right, such as a wooden airplane the size of a jetliner (the Spruce Goose) or an airship full of extremely flammable gas (the Hindenburg).