With nationwide shortages of funding support for nonprofit organizations in 2025, Social Tinkering was not immune. In light of this, the team has taken the opportunity to explore what is and is not ...

Pinterest and HGTV are full of DIY projects. And a growing number of maker spaces and fairs, across the country, are encouraging people to tinker. Tinkering, however, isn't really a hot new trend.

Let your mind work out something by being creative: Reflect on something, extract some key themes, and then let the experimenting (tinkering) begin. Many of these “thought experiments” may not yield ...

Picture this: a grandparent working on a car in the garage or a kid figuring out the inner workings of a clock. A group of students with screwdrivers in hand taking apart old desktop computers to ...

Many great discoveries are often made by tinkering. A formal definition of tinkering may imply fixing things; for example, a dictionary definition deems it an act “repair or improve something in a ...