Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sure, paper clips end up floating around junk drawers and clutter desk tops, but they’re good for more than just organizing papers ...

James Ward has an unusual attachment to paper clips. And when he sees one, he sees "a piece of art, but it's also a piece of useful art." And like any serious art appreciator, he is also a collector.

The paper clip is something of a fetish object in design circles. Its spare, machined aesthetic and its inexpensive ubiquity landed it a spot in MoMA’s 2004 show Humble Masterpieces. This was a ...

I love being able to repurpose things I have lying around the house, and my collection of paper clips just got a bunch of new assignments after I learned about all these great ways to use them. When ...

Zara Home makes some very nice goods for the home and the office, including these ingenious jumbo paper clips that can hold a pen or pencil. But I balked at the price tag — $12 for two pieces of bent ...

The author rallies a group of Michigan buddies for a sunny day of lake trout fishing on Michigan's Crystal Lake.

Let's suppose you need to measure the mass of some water, and you want to construct a scale to do it. But you are in a normal house filled with normal stuff. There’s no fancy scientific equipment. Can ...

Consider the lowly paper clip. You probably have scores of them in your desk drawer, but how often do you really use one? In a PDF world, who needs to hold several pages of paper together with a piece ...

In 1993, a bank in Abbotsford, Canada hired a 23-year-old stock broker named Trent Dyrsmid. Dyrsmid was a rookie so nobody at the firm expected too much of his performance. Moreover, Abbotsford was ...

International Holocaust Remembrance Day is on Jan. 27 this year. On this annual day of commemoration, we are urged to honor those who lost their lives during the Nazi regime. The Holocaust started in ...