Mad About Science: Gladys West
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist How many times have you been in an unfamiliar place and whipped out your phone to check your GPS? Maybe it was on a road trip, maybe you were...
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Mad About Science: Percy Lavon Julian
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist February is Black History Month and, to celebrate, I’ll be writing about some amazing Black scientists and inventors throughout the brief history of the United States, as well as...
Mad About Science: Fused deposition modeling
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist You may have seen the 3-D printers at the library. Ever wondered how they worked? Last week, we learned about photopolymer resin and its applications in dentistry and 3-D...
Mad About Science: Photopolymer resin
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist Have you ever gone to the dentist to have a cavity filled and wondered what in the world they’re doing inside of your mouth? They squeeze a tube of...
Mad About Science: The James Webb space telescope
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist You might have noticed the name of this telescope in the news recently and thought to yourself, “I wonder why the science guy hasn’t written anything about this in...
The science and importance of reading (Part 2)
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist Today’s article is a deeper dive into how your brain processes reading. Due to the nature of the complexity of neuroscience, much of this article will be condensed, and...
Mad About Science: The science and importance of reading (part 1)
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist Stop for a moment and contemplate how incredible it is that you are reading. As far as we are aware, primates — and humans in particular — are the...
Mad About Science: Automata
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist Humans like to put labels onto things and organize them neatly into their own little boxes, from which they are never allowed to escape. However, being the silly blood...
Mad About Science: Furby
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist To truly appreciate the absurdity of Furby, you have to fall into a certain age range. My generation, in particular, happened to be the biggest beneficiaries of the mysterious...
Mad About Science: Cardboard science
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist Your Amazon box may have a big smile plastered across the front of it, but that does little to ease your frustrations when trying to cram 50 of them...
