Love charcoal but hate the mess? Pick up a charcoal pencil, which is composed of compressed charcoal inside a protective layer, typically wood. Suitable for drawing, sketching, or smudging, a charcoal ...

With the SAT and ACT testing season about to kick into high gear, I poked around on the Internet to find about more about pencils. Here are 10 facts about pencils that you probably didn't know. 1.

Almost every syllabus, teacher, and standardized test requires a No. 2 pencil. Are there other choices out there? Indeed there are. Pencil makers manufacture Nos. 1, 2, 2.5, 3, and 4 pencils—and ...

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Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your account’s ‘Saved for Later’ section. Because they are erasable, pencils are often the first tool creative people use when sketching out a ...

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As a new middle-school teacher, I’m facing a challenge I never thought about before: assigning a list of school supplies for my students. My colleagues tell me that there’s a real downside to wooden ...

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Last Friday Consumer Reports posted a video of some iPhone 6 bending tests they performed in order to “bring some science to the matter, and find out: ‘How much force does it take for a phone to bend ...