Trego's Mountain Ear

This Sunday, folks braved the snow to gather at Timbers Event Center to enjoy Eureka’s Got Talent and donate to the Shelly Moen scholarship fund. The Eureka Community Players have a yearly fundraiser for the scholarship and provide one student of the arts with a $1,000 scholarship per year. Despite the cold and snow outside, Read more

Testosterone (which, for the sake of simplicity, we treat as if it’s a single thing and not a category word like ‘hawk’ or ‘cake’ with many subcategories) is a precursor molecule for estrogen (another category word, as it happens). What does that mean? When students learn about chemical reactions, they are taught them as if Read more

Courtney Di Vittorio, Wake Forest University Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to curiouskidsus@theconversation.com. Why is water different colors in different places? – Gina T., age 12, Portland, Maine What do you picture when you think of water? Read more

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This case is in Mississippi, so it doesn’t make them legal in Montana – but there are now two district courts that have ruled in the favor of individual ownership of machine guns and against the National Firearms Act of 1935 and the ban on new machine guns of 1986.  The case is US v Read more

The Center for Disease Control has a lot of data available – though you have to get through their screens and promise not to use it in ways in which they might not approve. Personally, most of my research, like theirs, was government funded – and I believe that if the taxpayers paid to get Read more