Mad About Science: Rocket propulsion
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist Rocket science is the gold standard for gauging the difficulty of a certain task. Trying to create a decorative frosting on a cake for the first time? “It’s not...
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Mad About Science
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist Set the Tesla to ludicrous speed, because like Sonic the Hedgehog, we’re about to go fast! Traveling insurmountably huge distances is the ultimate dream of the scientific mind. Imagine...
Mad About Science: The human brain
By Ben Olson Reader Staff We humans like to think we have some pretty big brains, but the truth is that size doesn’t matter for intelligence. What defines intelligence is the brain-to-body-mass ratio as...
Mad About Science: COVID-19 misinformation
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist This week’s subject was suggested by the library’s lifelong learning coordinator, Mike Bauer. Thanks, Mike! COVID-19 is a volatile subject right now. It’s still a relatively new disease and...
Mad About Science: High altitude magic
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist Have you ever baked something — especially in this area — only to discover that it didn’t come out quite like you had hoped? The air around you may...
Mad About Science: Artificial crystals and gems
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist This week’s topic, suggested by our local library director, Ann Nichols, focuses — so to speak — on one of the most important yet often overlooked items in our...
Mad About Science: Giant robots
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist My love for giant robots began when I was 14 years old and first watched Neon Genesis Evangelion, an anime series about giant humanoid “robots” (spoiler alert: they weren’t...
Mad About Science: Sausage
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist You may consider yourself a meat aficionado. You may even possess pillow covers and pajamas covered with bacon print. Perhaps you abhor the thought of consuming the flesh of...
Mad About Science
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist If that subhed doesn’t catch your attention, I have no idea what will. Earth has hosted countless giant predators, from the Tyrannosaurus to the Megalodon, a shark that made...
Mad About Science
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist Philadelphia — home of the Phillies, the Liberty Bell and the Fresh Prince. In 1793, it was also the epicenter of one of the worst epidemics America has ever...
