A ton of bricks: Lego seems timeless now, but it wasn’t always this way

It’s something of a mystery that messing around with piles of small plastic bricks should still be a phenomenon almost 100 years after a struggling Danish carpenter sought solace from the ravages of the Depression. And yet in our insta-gratification era, where attention spans are measured in emojis per second, the Lego brick — a […]

By Lindsey Ward