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 …
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 …
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; …
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 …
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 …
By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey
Reader Staff
The Clark Fork Library has a new employee, but he’s more likely to “meow” his greeting than offer book suggestions.
That new addition is Reader, …
By Brenden Bobby
Reader Staff
Language is a bit of an enigma. It’s impossible to pin dates on the development of a particular spoken language. If it’s a written language …
By Brenden Bobby
Reader Columnist
Galileo once wrote: “Mathematics is the language in which God has written the universe.”
Take that as literally or figuratively as you want, your decision …
By Brenden Bobby
Reader Columnist
It’s that time of the year where every coffee shop smells like one thing and one thing only: pumpkin spice. It’s interesting that the smells …
By Brenden Bobby
Reader Columnist
Banned Books week is my favorite library holiday. Proclaiming such a thing always elicits a unique response from everyone around me. Usually shock and confusion …
By Brenden Bobby
Reader Columnist
Think about your pantry for a moment. Does a banana, a potato or a tomato interest you? Have you ever thought about where that fruit …
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