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 ...

It's the latest R&D trend: penciling in tinkering time on the company clock. The current craze started with Google's well-known "20% Time" initiative, which encouraged employees to spend 20% of their ...

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 ...