There are pictures of me swinging a hammer while I was still in diapers. One of the first things my family taught me about construction was how to use a measuring tape. Measurements would be called ...

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It’s a game a lot of us played as children—and maybe even later in life: unspooling measuring tape to see how far it would extend before bending. But to engineers at the University of California San ...