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...
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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...
Mad About Science: Garbage science
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist It’s not much of a secret that 21st century humans have a garbage problem. We generate huge amounts of waste — a problem that’s compounded by our pursuit of...
Mad About Science: Mason jar experiments
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist This article is usually written to give you answers. Today, I’m not going to give you any answers. Instead, I’m going to give you experiments and, if you really...
Mad About Science
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist Thanksgiving is a time when we can slow down from the hustle and bustle of daily life, plans, meetings and agendas to sit back and enjoy peace with our...
Mad About Science: Gauss rifle
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist Lifelong video game fans are no strangers to the gauss rifle. What many people may not realize is that these exist in the real world, and you can actually...
Mad About Science: Siege weapons
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist Have you ever watched a movie about war in ancient times? Most of it is just armored guys running at each other and brutally hacking at their opponents with...
Mad About Science: Flocking birds
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist You will often see gaggles of Canada geese flying overhead during autumn, as they migrate from one place to another. These are the most present and noticeable flocking birds...
Mad About Science: Ouija boards
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist Today’s spooky topic, in celebration of All Hallow’s Eve, was provided by Reader Publisher Ben Olson. “I was just remembering the other day about the Ouija board we used...
