Mad About Science: Uranium
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist If you’ve been following this article for a while, you know how I like to document dangerous things with explosive potential. If this is the first time you’ve ever...
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Mad About Science: Medieval Horses
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist Horses have been a pretty central part of human civilization for thousands of years. They’ve pulled things for us, they’ve delivered things for us, they carry us: They literally...
Mad About Science: Helium
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist Helium, everyone’s second favorite party favor. Because let’s face it, you’re there for the cake, and the clown doesn’t even make the top 15. At a glance, helium seems...
Mad About Science: Fire
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist Can you believe I’ve never done an article on fire? Surprisingly, fire and rust are similar chemical processes. They are both the product of oxidation, the changing of state...
Mad About Science: Bioluminescence
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist In the age of smartphones and mass-produced LEDs, light isn’t really a big deal to us anymore. Our vehicles spout light in every direction at night. We have powerful...
Mad About Science: Platypus
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist We, as humans, organize things neatly. We put labels on things, stick them in folders, put them in nice, tidy rows so we know where they came from, what...
Mad About Science: Football
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist Thanksgiving is upon us! Let the tryptophan-induced coma commence! Well, we would, if it were a thing. The tryptophan (an amino acid) isn’t what’s putting you to sleep. It’s...
Mad About Science: Hollywood’s Science Fails (pt. 2)
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist We’re back. I hope you’re ready to learn, or at least laugh at some sci-fail silliness. Faster-than-light travel is a big offender in just about every movie. For objects...
Mad About Science: Hollywood’s Science Fails (Part I)
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson is one of my personal heroes. Not to glaze over his lifetime of achievements, but one of the things he’s been popular for lately is...
Mad About Science: Diamonds
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist In 1953, Marilyn Monroe famously proclaimed that “Diamonds are a girl’s best friend” (though the song is actually from 1949.). Turns out, diamonds are a lot of people’s best...
