Wilbur Ellis

Why American Manufacturing Still Matters

"A manufacturing base that isn't driven by excellence and value is worthless." -Mike Petters, president and CEO, Huntington Ingalls Industries.

Grow your own jungle: easy exotic plants

Tropical gardening is all too often associated with expense and poor results. But choose your plants wisely and you can turn your patch into a slice of verdant jungle, says James Wong

16 Invasive Species Sold at Garden Centers You Should Never Buy

These 16 invasive species of plants are commonly sold at garden centers - beware of them and DO NOT buy them from your garden store!

How Should We Remember Ellis Island?

Ellis Island: A People’s History looks at the everyday injustices that have haunted the country’s stance on immigration for centuries.

Your Family Name Changed at Ellis Island? Are you sure?

by Steven Dugan Immigrants arriving at Ellis Island between 1892 and 1954 must have had many questions. Questions about being accepted in their new country, jobs, schools, and where they were going…

Why You Should Finally Visit the Statute of Liberty & Ellis Island

A visit to the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island Immigration Museum is a must-do at least once with your kids. Here's how to make the most of your visit to these iconic, historic landmarks.

Ellis Genge interview: 'If I'm being brutally honest, loyalty does not matter'

I'm Warren Ellis, and This Is How I Work

Warren Ellis is a writer. You may know him from Transmetropolitan, his acclaimed cyberpunk comic book series about a gonzo journalist, or from his novels like Gun Machine. And then there are the television shows, film projects, and magazine columns, many of which comment on our relationship with technology and the future.

Take the 5th STEM challenge: Understand AI by playing noughts and crosses

Learn how to never lose at noughts and crosses – and how that helps you understand AI

Ask an Editor with Elaina Ellis

Join Elaina Ellis, Editor of Copper Canyon Press, for a free one-hour Q&A. Elaina will offer some of her expert tips, tricks, and advice on the art

Chesterton’s Ellis just doesn’t care

Brock Ellis spent the summer watching behind-the-scenes college wrestling videos.

What’s in a Pro Landscape Photographer’s Bag

We often relate amazing-looking photographs with the gear that was used to take the shots. While there’s only a slight co-relation between the beautiful work and gear, it has to be said that gear does matter when it comes to the quality of the work. After all, professionals don’t have much leeway when it comes [...]

Robert Ellis talks dropping the twang and not running out of gas

Deep Draw Fundamentals: Pictorial

Below are images showing some of Accurate Forming's value-added and secondary operations. A picture is worth a thousand words!

‘I wish this guy hadn’t written this book’

About halfway through Thomas Kunkel’s remarkable new biography of Joseph Mitchell a feeling of dread swept over me. I called a friend and said, “I wish this guy hadn’t written this book.” Any writer with aspirations in literary journalism — or creative nonfiction or narrative nonfiction, whatever phrase suits you — has to reckon with […]

The Higher Power of Aunjanue Ellis

Ellis is joining the cast of "Lovecraft Country" and reminding us to keep tapping into our roots.

Stopping lawn fertilizer use among ways to protect Sound

Stopping lawn fertilizer from entering it, are among the ways to protect Long Island Sound from environmental harm.