By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist Earth is pretty spectacular. We have wild weather, but nothing compared to some of the craziness in space. Jupiter has some of the most vicious wind we’ve ever observed,...
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist It’s not every day that you get to see a comet. In some cases, it’s not every lifetime you get to see a comet. A comet is an amalgam...
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist Ahead, there’s plenty of fuel for informed “Yo’ Mamma” jokes. Disclosure: Brenden is not responsible for any bodily injuries you receive for unleashing the aforementioned jokes upon the world....
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist “Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn” “The Call of Cthulhu” was a short story written by H.P. Lovecraft, published in February 1928. It’s about the narrator, Francis Wayland Thurston,...
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist Plants are weird. For organisms that eat poop and don’t move from the spot they were “born” their entire lives, they can be crazy intelligent. We’ve talked about orchids...
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist Everyone’s favorite status dinner! Few things beat a succulent lobster tail drenched in enough butter to send you into cardiac arrest. What can be said about the lobster that...
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist “All wildlife, including all wild animals, wild birds, and fish, within the state of Idaho, is hereby declared to be the property of the state of Idaho. It shall...
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist ‘Tis the season for wood-chopping, fal-la-la-la-laaaaa. I’m sure some sharp-eyed reader is going to call me out on having done an article on axes before. Have I? That’s okay....
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist That time of year has come and gone again. Countless pickup trucks sitting vacant in parking lots around private and public parking lots alike, the echo of gunshots in...
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist Yeah, yeah, dragons aren’t scientific, I know. But you also know that I like to touch on history, culture and myth and how it influences our scientific pursuits and...
