Mad About Science: Vampires
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist Halloween is right around the corner. Ghastly ghouls and ravenous, sugar-filled child zombies are going to be trudging into the streets of Sandpoint. Seeing as it’s one of my...
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Mad About Science: Forest Products
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist Editor’s note: In commemoration of Idaho Forest Products Week, Brenden Bobby has dedicated this week’s column to the many uses of forest products. Our forests are pretty remarkable things....
Mad About Science: The weirdness of science
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist Just when you think you’ve got it all figured out, science goes and throws some wild curveballs at you (that usually put you into a walk for first!). Unlike...
The corrupted blood incident
By Brenden Bobby Reader Staff What if I told you that, in 2005, a massive plague swept across the land, infecting tens, perhaps hundreds of thousands of people and leaving several major cities in...
Mad About Science: Apples
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist September means one thing: Apples! It’s harvest season, and America’s favorite red fruit is arriving en masse to a produce department and farmer’s market near you. You know what...
Mad About Science: Seed Saving
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist It’s been a long, crazy, hot summer, and we’re hoping your garden survived it. Whether this is your first year, your 15th or your 50th, I know you’ve been...
Mad About Science: Awesome military tactics
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist Throughout history, there is one thing humans have done a lot of. Fight! Love it or hate it, military tactics offer an introspective into human psychology, physics, math and...
Mad About Science: Pyramids
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist Everyone has a theory on pyramids. Some people think aliens did it. Me? I think when you don’t have a CAD program, building something wide at the bottom and...
Mad About Science: Eclipse!
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist It’s the talk of the town. Even if you’re not an avid umbraphile, the eclipse has undoubtedly come up in a casual conversation more than once in the past...
Mad About Science: Climate Change — a new viewpoint
Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist I’m not going to lie, my initial instruction with this article was to highlight the effects of climate change in our area. I got 500 words in before I felt...
