Mad about Science: The European Alps today
By Brenden Bobby Reader Staff Last week we learned about the 400 million years-long life of the European Alps, but very little about their impact on modern society, or conversely, the impact of modern...
Category: History
Ponderay to cut ribbon on Phase 1 of Field of Dreams Recreation Complex
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff It’s been 31 years since Floyd McGhee and Mike Read first envisioned a dedicated regional sports facility in Ponderay. Then conceived of as the McGhee Sports Complex, that idea...
The salad days are over
By Ben Olson Reader Staff I’m a bit embarrassed to admit how important a role salad bars have played in my life. When I was young, our family used to eat out at a...
Mad about Science: Formation of the alps
By Brenden Bobby Reader Staff The European Alps are among the world’s most recognizable mountain ranges. This range stretches across eight countries and possesses evidence of at least 8,000 years of human habitation. Certainly,...
The Lumberjill: Boogeymen
By Jen Jackson Quintano Reader Columnist In 2012, neo-Nazi Shaun Winkler bought property an hour north of the old Aryan Nations compound with hopes of building a new homeland for his white supremacist compatriots....
Babylon Berlin reemerges with a triumphal fourth season
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff A handful of critics seem a little bemused by the popularity of Babylon Berlin. The New York Times referred to a “a small core of aficionados” and a “cult”...
A few thoughts… On monogenesis and Albert Schweitzer
By Sandy Compton Reader Columnist Digging in the dictionary recently led to monogenesis, a theory that all living things evolved from a single cell — some combination of proteins and acids and God-knows-what-else that...
Mad about Science: Powered Exoskeleton
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist The idea of a powered human exoskeleton is an old one. Sigourney Weaver whooping the crap out of the xenomorph queen with a power loader in 1986’s Aliens is...
Rounding up the horses
By Ben Olson Reader Staff The horses have finally found a home. In 2016, after Clay and Reno Hutchison unpacked two trailers and brought an intact 1920 Allan Herschell carousel into the light for...
It’s OK to stop this now
By Jim Imholte Reader Contributor I grew up in North Idaho. I attended Southside Elementary from 1973 to 1978, where my principal was Jim Stoicheff, who was also an Idaho senator, elected as a...
