Forty years later, another plastic canary has come home to roost. In August, UAF scientist Ben Jones was hiking near Drew Point on the northern coast of Alaska. He noticed pilot Jim Webster walking ...

BRIDGEPORT -- There's a story told in these parts that goes something like this: The Frisbie Pie Co. on Kossuth Street sold its wares baked in steel tins. Students at Yale University used these pie ...

The first thing I did when I found out I had gotten a summer internship at The Virginian-Pilot was to Google “Hampton Roads Ultimate Frisbee.” I didn’t find much. A summer league in Newport News that ...

When Wham-O Manufacturing Co. rolled out its first flying discs on January 23, 1957, there must have been some speculation: Would the idea fly with consumers? But 68 years later, hundreds of millions ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... A flat, curved piece of orange plastic cutting through the air at a neighborhood park is as natural as ice- cold lemonade on a scorching summer day. Just as ...

Ten years ago, Frisbees were flying off toy-store shelves at lightning speed. Now, with a mere flick of the wrist, flying-disc enthusiasts are breaking their old distance records with ease throwing a ...

Like many people who grew up in the 1970s — unsupervised and aimless — I sometimes wonder how I survived. This topic and the role of plastic toys in the summer fun of that decade is part of a recent ...