Mad about Science: The sinking of the RMS Titanic
By Brenden Bobby
Reader Columnist
The story of the Titanic is an infamous one. It has all the makings of a truly great story: wealth, opulence and hubris crushed by …
By Brenden Bobby
Reader Columnist
The story of the Titanic is an infamous one. It has all the makings of a truly great story: wealth, opulence and hubris crushed by …
By Brenden Bobby
Reader Columnis
A total solar eclipse occurred April 8 over parts of Mexico, the eastern United States and eastern Canada. Some people gave away their life savings …
By Brenden Bobby
Reader Columnist
Strap yourself in, dear reader. The future is here.
The idea of 3D-printed food isn’t a particularly new one, but the means by which we …
By Brenden Bobby
Reader Columnist
Earlier this week, tragedy struck in Baltimore when the container ship the MV Dali collided with the supports of the Francis Scott Key Bridge, which …
By Brenden Bobby
Reader Columnist
Sorry, 7B. This one is a birthday present to myself. Cue the sad, lonely, lip-dampened noisemaker celebrating the slow march to the grave.
As a …
By Brenden Bobby
Reader Columnist
You’ve heard me say it a hundred times: the medieval period gets a bad rap. Littered with stories of gluttonous lords, illiterate peasants and noble …
By Brenden Bobby
Reader Columnist
There is something to be said about the importance of board and table games. While it’s easy enough to boot up a console and start …
By Brenden Bobby
Reader Columnist
I was an 8-year-old nerd in a class full of boys — who were primarily jocks — when Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa fought an …
By Brenden Bobby
Reader Columnist
These articles are usually filled with an adequate level of snark and silliness tucked between lines of dense information. This week may not have so …
By Brenden Bobby
Reader Columnist
Chances are that you’ve probably eaten pasta at some point in your life. Most people consume premade pasta from the grocery store. Dried and pre-packaged …
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