Doodling or making quick notes with pencil and paper is so old school. Cheap. Dependable. Easy to use. Erasable. But old school. Enter the digital sketchpad/notepad. No wasted paper.

This method of making paper quickly made its way around the world. It wasn't long after that poor old papyrus got pushed to the side. Pulp paper mills would become modernized with the first ...

These seemingly simple pencil-and-paper games were all invented by mathematicians. They call for two players and some strategic thinking. By Mary Jane Callister First published in the 19th century ...

While the 1950s saw more than 20 pencil manufacturing plants, several like Dixon Ticonderoga, which closed its Jersey City, ...