For the first time in my life, I drew a perfect circle on an Etch a Sketch. Gif: Raul Marrero, Victoria Song (Gizmodo) All of my childhood memories involving Etch a Sketch end the same way. I’d fiddle ...

Caleb Terrell likes the new way his class is doing math."Last year we had big sheets of math we had to do for a long time," said the fourth-grader. And now?"We get to draw math."Students at Highland ...

Instead, I found myself drawing concentric circles and filling them with flower petals and leaf patterns. What I was pursuing with maniacal frenzy is known as mandala (Sanskrit for circle).

Let's face it: drawing circles is hard. Our minds are programmed to love the symmetry of the shape, but our hands just can't make it perfect. We're so inadequate at drawing circles, scientists have ...