Mad About Science: Catfish
By Brenden Bobby
Reader Columnist
I’ll be frank, it’s been a rough week and we could all use a good laugh right about now. While the world is panicking about …
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Mad About Science: Dyno Spheres
By Brenden Bobby
Reader Columnist
The world lost an incredible mind on Feb. 28. Dr. Freeman Dyson was a theoretical physicist with incredible ideas. While most articles would recap his …
Mad About Science: Awesome African-American scientists (pt. 1)
By Brenden Bobby
Reader Columnist
When I was in school, we learned about one black scientist: George Washington Carver, whom my history book at the time summed up as: “The …
Mad About Science: Hypothermia
By Brenden Bobby
Reader Columnist
That season Ned Stark all warned us about has finally come. I write to you now with fingers shivering, teeth chattering and a mug of …
The white stuff
By Brenden Bobby
Reader Columnist
Ever wonder why there are so many different kinds of snowflakes? Different conditions in the atmosphere create different kinds of snow, which can have big …
Mad About Science: Televisions
By Brenden Bobby
Reader Columnist
So, you got a brand new 7 million-inch TV on Black Friday for $8. Sure, to get it you only had to pick up another …
Mad About Science: Evolutionary Behavior
By Brenden Bobby
Reader Columnist
In the grand scheme of things, we’re all basically just apes with awesome tools. Just about all of our daily rituals, from brushing our teeth …
Archaeological find near Grangeville could rewrite history
By Ben Olson
Reader Staff
For upwards of 16,000 years, some of the earliest evidence of human habitation in the Americas lay buried in Idaho, waiting to be discovered.
According …
Mad About Science: Lasers
By Brenden Bobby
Reader Columnist
They’ve blown up aliens, they’ve shot out of other aliens’ eyes, they’ve been tied to shark’s frickin’ heads. Lasers!
Since their first application in 1960, …
Mad About Science: Seeds, sprouts & beyond
By Brenden Bobby
Reader Columnist
Our area has some passionate farmers and gardeners. Our area also has a pretty nasty reputation for having abysmal soil that no amount of potting …
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