Mad About Science: Colonizing Mars, part 2
By Brenden Bobby
Reader Staff
It’s all led up to this. One small print for a man, one giant block of text for Bonner County!
In last week’s Mad About …
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Mad About Science: Colonizing Mars, Part 1
By Brenden Bobby
Reader Columnist
Our subject today is too large to confine to a single page. Fortunately, the crew at the Reader tolerates my nonsense when I try to …
Mad About Science: Grapes
By Brenden Bobby
Reader Columnist
You may have heard that the banana is the highest grossing item in most superstores throughout the United States; so, logically, you would imagine that …
Mad About Science: The Svalbard Global Seed Vault
By Brenden Bobby
Reader Columnist
There exists a bunker buried deep in a mountain, on an island, halfway between Norway and the North Pole. This bunker is designed to survive …
Mad About Science
By Brenden Bobby
Reader Columnist
The ability to learn isn’t a human-specific trait. Every organic creature from the blue whale to bacteria have some capacity for learning — otherwise we …
Mad About Science: Small stuff in perspective
By Brenden Bobby
Reader Columnist
As a civilization we have spent nearly the past two years getting our butts kicked by something too small to see with the naked eye. …
Mad About Science: Clocks
By Brenden Bobby
Reader Columnist
When someone thinks about a complicated mechanical device, one will generally envision a clock. Anyone who has ever peered into the guts of a mechanical …
Mad About Science
By Brenden Bobby
Reader Columnist
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: plants are amazing.
Some plants have adapted to live for an unfathomably long time — think …
Mad About Science: Kriegsspiel
By Brenden Bobby
Reader Columnist
If you know me at all, you know I am a complete geek for anything related to tabletop roleplaying games. Many people believe the history …
Mad About Science: Magic
By Brenden Bobby
Reader Staff
We’ve all seen at least one magic performance in our lives. It may be difficult to explain, but it happens reliably again and again for …
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