Amazon S3 on MSN

Carve Cornelius the chicken with your first chainsaw

Expert DIYer April Wilkerson shapes Cornelius the Chicken from wood using a chainsaw, even as a first-timer with this tool.
YouTube on MSN

Crafting the Knight XV masterpiece

In this wood carving art video, we create a detailed model of the Conquest Knight XV, the vehicle driven by Dwayne Johnson in ...
Denton Record-Chronicle

The pros and cons of using wood ash in your garden, from a Denton County Master Gardener

A wood-burning fireplace or stove is a welcome sight in the cold winter months. Now, what do we do with all the ashes? Many gardeners recommend spreading them in the garden beds. However, check out ...
The New York Times

430,000-Year-Old Wooden Tools Are the Oldest Ever Found

The finding, along with the discovery of a 500,000-year-old hammer made of bone, indicates that our human ancestors were making tools even earlier than archaeologists thought. By Franz Lidz Early ...
IEEE

A Novel Framework for Reflection-Aware Seam Carving Using a Multi-Operator-Based Augmented Energy Map

Abstract: To preserve the visual quality of images in a Contentaware fashion, image retargeting has emerged as a prominent area of research. Seam carving, one of the most widely studied methods, ...