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Sous vide cooking was once the province of chefs at fancy restaurants — and those home cooks willing to shell out close to $1,000 for a water oven. Now, do-it-yourselfers are making their own, inexpensive sous vide cooking rigs, and they're not afraid to brag about the scrumptious product.

At the Bamboo Bike Studio in Brooklyn, N.Y., cycling enthusiasts can assemble their own bikes from scratch in just one weekend. Bike building classes are full until April, but the studio's owners say they don't want the bamboo bike frames to be just another fad.

Three garbage bins have been transformed into swimming pools on an industrial lot in Brooklyn. The idea of swimming in a trash container grosses you out? Think again. They're clean. They're lined with sheets of plastic, and the water is chlorinated and filtered.

As digital technology continues to transform the way objects are manufactured, it's becoming more possible to produce an entire firearm at home. Amateur gunsmiths are now sharing the digital blueprints for making key parts of a gun online on a 3-D printer and one member of Congress has expressed concern about the implications of 3-D printed guns at airports and other public spaces.

The only thing tiny about the tiny house movement is the size of the houses themselves. There are a slew of websites devoted to the scene, and tiny house evangelists are busy traveling around North America, helping DIYers construct these (very) little homes.

What do you get when you put 40 high-energy New Yorkers in a tiny Brooklyn kitchen and tell them all to cook dinner? Chaos. We check out a monthly gathering aptly named "Chaos Cooking."

Last spring, 32 previously unknown paintings thought to be the work of Jackson Pollock were found. The foundation representing the artist's estate doubts their authenticity.

Paul Krassner coined the term Yippie and co-founded one of the most influential magazines of the 1960s counterculture, The Realist. Krassner died Sunday at the age of 87.

Richard Shulberg was a musician, a radio personality and by all accounts, an unrepentant comedic force in the lives of many who knew him. Most knew him by his stage name, Citizen Kafka. Shulberg died last Saturday at the age of 61 after a series of illnesses.

Hip-hop musicians and fellow artists have organized twice-monthly takeovers of New York City subway cars to perform. The audience members are not exactly volunteers. How do they react?