Syracuse, N.Y. -- Stan Munro left the video camera on his iPhone running in hopes of capturing his wife, Suzi, as she arrived at his new Toothpick World display at Destiny USA. But that wasn't what he ...

For author Henry Petroski, the simplest of instruments — be it a pencil or a telephone keypad — can offer fascinating stories of engineering, design and cultural history. Even toothpicks don't escape ...

A San Francisco artist has spent the past 39 years perfecting the art of toothpick modeling, a genre we can safely say he now has the authority on. Steven Backman took up the unusual hobby at just ...