Mad About Science: 21st Century Agriculture
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist North Idaho is just a little bit country. It’s not unusual to see someone trotting a horse through most of our towns as though it were a rented scooter...
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Mad About Science: Heavy organisms
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist We all know that blue whales are big, but are they the biggest? They’re the biggest marine mammals in the world, and possibly even the most massive animal to...
Mad About Science: Urine
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist I love writing about gross stuff, and there are few things that gross people out more than things that come out of the human body. However, it’s important to...
Mad About Science: Muscles
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist This article is meant to do one thing, ja. Pump… You up! Muscles come in a huge variety of forms and have an amazing amount of intricacy and complexity...
Mad About Science: Ultraviolet radiation
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist Typical Brenden: late to the party. Summer is practically over, and only now is he riding in on his science pony to warn us all of the dangers of...
Mad About Science: Wild Bacteria
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist When we think about bacteria, we think about soaping it off our bodies as quickly as we can. A clean body is a body without bacteria. That’s a load...
Mad About Science: Optical illusions
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist If you were to equate the human body to a computer, our eyes would be a webcam while our brains are all of the stuff inside of the computer’s...
Mad About Science: Asteroids
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist Apocalyptic science-fiction scenarios are in the headlines again as a giant chunk of rock is expected to whizz by Earth in September. Some people, including everyone’s favorite electric car...
Mad About Science: Evolutionary baggage
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist When people talk about evolution, terms like “perfectly adapted” often arise. In truth, evolution is far from perfect but it has given us a lot of the tools we...
Mad About Science: Tardigrades
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist Weird science doesn’t always make headlines, but recently some really heavy news may have masqueraded as clickbait in your social media feed. An Israeli spacecraft that contained a digital...
