Nick (played by Richard Blackmon) rides across the Broadway Bridge in a still from the movie. A movie shot in Portland and based on a book by a Portland author will have its hometown premiere next ...

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After the 2008 financial crash, Portland writer Evan P. Schneider wrote a novel called A Simple Machine, Like the Lever that told the story of a young man who adopts radical thrift to try to get out ...

Once, fastening and joining used to be a simple choice between bolts and welding. Today, it is about engineering a designed system that not only offers the assurance that the product will stay ...

Calisthenics may sound like a fancy form of fitness, but it’s really as basic as it gets. The term refers to exercises that you do using just your bodyweight, meaning you don’t need any additional ...

Digitally remastered episodes of the beloved period drama "Mad Men" debuted on HBO Max this week with a host of production errors that inexplicably made their way to the streaming platform. Subscribe ...

A research team of mathematicians and computer scientists has used machine learning to reveal new mathematical structure within the theory of finite groups. By training neural networks to recognise ...

A new children’s book, titled Simple Machines Made Simple, wants to demystify mechanical engineering for kids as young as a year old. It recently beat its Kickstarter goal by 700%—raising more than ...

“What can I get that's just a cheap, simple coffee maker?” I’ve been asked some version of that question dozens of times since I started testing coffee equipment. For years my answer was basically ...