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Throngs of people gathered Saturday in a scenic Minneapolis neighborhood for an annual ritual — the sharpening of a gigantic No. 2 pencil.

To keep the point pointy, they haul a giant, custom-made pencil sharpener up the scaffolding that is erected for the event. Like a real pencil, this one is ephemeral. Every year they sharpen it ...

Pencils aren’t supposed to flex. When I investigated, I found that the manufacturer had decided to mix sawdust with some sort of adhesive and use the resulting substance to make ...

When it’s on John and Amy Higgins’ lawn across from Lake of the Isles, is 20 feet tall and gets an annual public sharpening that draws crowds of more than 1,000 people. The giant pencil, known ...

To keep the point pointy, they haul a giant, custom-made pencil sharpener up the scaffolding that’s erected for the event. Like a real pencil, this one is ephemeral. Every year they sharpen it ...

When is a pencil not just a pencil? When it’s on John and Amy Higgins’ lawn across from Lake of the Isles, is 20 feet tall and gets an annual public sharpening.

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Self-assembled organic nanotubes (S-ONTs) from rationally designed synthetic amphiphiles provide a variety of inner and outer surfaces as well as homogeneous hollow cylinders with precisely ...

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To keep the point pointy, they haul a giant, custom-made pencil sharpener up the scaffolding that is erected for the event. Like a real pencil, this one is ephemeral. Every year they sharpen it ...

By Peter Behr | 06/24/2025 07:21 AM EDT . A national lab under Energy Secretary Chris Wright could supplant the historic role of the independent Nuclear Regulatory Commission under one proposal.