Mad about Science: Rhinovirus
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist Two months into the school year and a biting chill falls upon the land. Overnight, everyone is coughing, hacking and oozing all manner of vile ichors — the tide...
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Mad About Science: Candy
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist It’s All Hallows Eve and the Reader is stuffed to bursting. Spooky stories, Halloween parties and frightful electoral outrage bring ghoulish fright to every page. Ink flows, dripping like...
Mad about Science: Pumpkin spice
By Brenden Bobby Reader Staff Though Reader Editor Zach Hagadone has expressed an aversion to the phraseit’s that time of the year again, that’s what it is — including wood fires, cozy sweaters and...
Mad about Science: Archimedes’ screw
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist Moving water somewhere you want it to go is a pain in the butt. Projects involving moving large amounts of water generally use an electric pump, such as a...
Mad about Science: Medieval brewing
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist Anywhere you travel — from New York, U.S. to York, U.K. — you can expect a uniform taste from two of the same brands of alcoholic brew. Modern brewing...
Mad about Science: Boeing Starliner: Part II
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist We’ve returned to explore what happened to the Boeing Starliner and why it stranded two astronauts on the International Space Station. Last week, we learned about Starliner’s Test Flight...
Boeing starliner: part 1
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist The Internet Age, and the 24-hour news cycle that comes with it, has given us a peek into history and science in ways our predecessors could never even dream...
Mad about Science: Vortex
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist One of my favorite above-ground pool activities as a child was to grab a bunch of pool noodles and start running around the perimeter of the pool with my...
Mad about Science: Boring machines
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist One of my high-school teachers told me something that would shape my worldview: “Only boring people get bored.” This was a masterfully diabolical dig at an entitled student (yours...
Mad about Science: The European Alps today
By Brenden Bobby Reader Staff Last week we learned about the 400 million years-long life of the European Alps, but very little about their impact on modern society, or conversely, the impact of modern...
