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When you played billiards during the early days of plastic, you took your life into your hands. Under the right circumstances, your bank shot could cause a ball to explode. Billiards played an ...

Roman Mars’ podcast 99% Invisible covers design questions large and small, from his fascination with rebar to the history of slot machines to the great Los Angeles Red Car conspiracy. Here at The Eye, ...

Billiard balls were once made of ivory. Building on earlier work by English inventor Alexander Parkes, Hyatt used photographic film bases to reproduce ivory’s look and feel. By the 1870s, his company ...

Thousands of microbead pellets from a ripped pool toy scatter across the surface of Lake Tahoe in early July 2021. (Alison Toy/UC Davis Tahoe Environmental Research Center) A new trend of pool toys ...

Did you know that plastic was originally invented to protect nature and wildlife? Prior to the invention of plastic, billiard balls were made from wild elephant tusks. Because of the sport’s growing ...