Category: Mad About Science

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August 18, 2022

Mad About Science: The Kardashev scale, Part II

By Brenden Bobby
Reader Columnist

Last week, we learned about what kinds of civilizations could exist in the vast expanse of space and what kind of technology humans would need …

Arts & Culture / Brenden Bobby / Featured / Mad About Science

August 11, 2022

Mad About Science: The Kardashev Scale, Part I

By Brenden Bobby
Reader Columnist

Human beings are a global species, harvesting energy to transport supplies around the planet. We’re the only species we’ve ever observed that exists at such …

Arts & Culture / Brenden Bobby / Featured / Mad About Science

August 4, 2022

Mad About Science: Extinction event

By Brenden Bobby
Reader Columnist

We’ve all learned about one major mass extinction event in school. The end of the dinosaurs, gone in a singular dramatic flash!

That’s not exactly …

Arts & Culture / Brenden Bobby / Featured / Mad About Science

July 28, 2022

Mad About Science: 7B before people

By Brenden Bobby
Reader Columnist

I first learned about the Great Missoula Floods when I was in elementary school in the ’90s. I listened in wide-eyed wonder to my teacher …

Arts & Culture / Brenden Bobby / Featured / Mad About Science

July 21, 2022

Mad About Science: Hummingbirds

By Brenden Bobby
Reader Columnist

Hummingbirds are unique creatures. They are capable of hovering, similar to many winged insects, and they feed from flowers similarly to bees. What you might …

Brenden Bobby / Featured / Mad About Science

July 14, 2022

Mad About Science: Flubber, gloop and slime

By Brenden Bobby
Reader Columnist

We’ve been conditioned to think that gooey, slimy, sticky things are gross, and it’s true! A slimy surface is usually indicative of a bacterial film …