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 doesn’t apply once it’s...
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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 as trapping and eliminating...
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; because that goal will...
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 controlled bodily waste. During...
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 a plot over the...
Meet Reader, the library cat
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, a black-furred, yellow-eyed kitten...
Mad About Science: Language
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 there will be records,...
Mad About Science: Weird, magical math
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 is based on a...
Mad About Science: Pumpkins
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 involved with pumpkin spice...
Mad About Science: Banned books, part I
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 — why would I...
