Danielle George, professor of radio frequency engineering at the University of Manchester, who delivered a 2014 Royal Institution Christmas lecture urging people to make things with common household objects, thinks it's unnecessary - the verb "to tinker" already describes attempting to improve something in a casual way, she says.

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