It must be hard pushing pencils in the 21st century, with computers, BlackBerrys and a million other gadgets dominating our lives. But chances are that if you’ve taken any kind of standardized test ...

The origins of those humble scribblers hanging out in your office drawer is nothing less than aristocratic: turns out that pencil manufacturer Faber-Castell is still run by an actual Bavarian count, ...

A pencil puzzle left internet users puzzled as they struggled to count the actual number of pencils in a tricky image. The internet is no stranger to mind-bending visual challenges, but a new brain ...

Given what I do for a living, maybe it is not surprising I pay so much attention to writing implements. Even though I always create my books on a word processor, invariably I do the revisions on paper ...

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