Mad About Science: The Uncanny Valley
By Brenden Bobby
Reader Columnist
Let’s be honest. There are two kinds of people in this world: people who collect porcelain dolls, and the rest of us. Have you ever …
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Mad About Science
By Brenden Bobby
Reader Columnist
Wood stoves are common in North Idaho. Throwing combustibles into a metal bin and setting them on fire for heat seems like a straightforward idea, …
Mad About Science: Dental cavities and how we fill them
By Brenden Bobby
Reader Columnist
Today’s subject is courtesy of Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey. Thanks, Lyndsie!
At some point in life, just about every one of us has suffered from a cavity …
Mad About Science: The science of 2022
By Brenden Bobby
Reader Columnist
It’s the final Thursday of 2022, which seems like a great time to take a look back at the science that happened this year. Due …
Mad About Science: Injection molding
By Brenden Bobby
Reader Columnist
Injection molding touches all of our lives, whether we realize it or not, yet it’s a process that not many people have ever been exposed …
Mad About Science: Cheese
By Brenden Bobby
Reader Columnist
Delicious curdled milk has been consumed by humans for at least 10,000 years. Some experts argue that cheese has hidden health benefits, though that probably …
Mad About Science: Smells, sugars and you
By Brenden Bobby
Reader Columnist
What do hydrocortisone steroids, dryer sheets and Febreze all have in common?
Corn cobs.
I’m sure you’ve wondered how aerosol air fresheners work. They’re advertised …
Mad About Science: The Artemis Program
By Brenden Bobby
Reader Columnist
“We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard; …
Mad About Science: Toilets
By Brenden Bobby
Reader Columnist
There is one universal truth about Thanksgiving: what goes in, must come out. Poop is gross, but at least we live in an age of …
Mad About Science: Novels
By Brenden Bobby
Reader Columnist
Libraries possess one thing in spades: novels. What exactly constitutes a novel?
A novel is a narrative work of fiction that focuses on characters moving …
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