When I was 8, our family moved from downtown Norphlet to a 20-acre farm about a mile south of town. That may not sound like much of a move, but for an 8-year-old boy it was a huge change. Our house ...

The best slingshots go well beyond the forked sticks and cut-up bicycle tire tubes we played with in our youth. Nowadays, we’re talking about high-end materials combined with precision engineering ...