If a picture tells a thousand words, what a tale is stored in its frame? Every year, thousands of art lovers flock to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston to gaze at empty picture frames. Left as a reminder of an art heist that still has police baffled, the ornate, handmade frames that once held works by Rembrandt, Manet, Vermeer and Degas provide the only re
A child's brain is an amazing thing, expanding its intelligence to meet each new challenge, and for hundreds of years parents have been devising new ways to entertain their little ones and help them to fulfill their potential. Jigsaw puzzles were invented back in 18th century Europe in pursuit of this goal. Back then, mapmakers pasted maps onto flat wooden planks, cut