Mad About Science: Mad Honey
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist It’s no secret that I’m a bit of a food nut. Hunger and the avoidance of it is a driving force behind virtually every human behavior. We can consume...
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Mad about Science: Wild and successful military tactics, part II
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist We’re back to examine some wacky warfare tactics used successfully throughout human history. Last week we learned about siege Oreos and the U.S. Army, French prisoners of war and...
Mad about Science: Wild and successful military tactics, part 1
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist Warfare encapsulates all of the worst tendencies of humankind into an age-old chain of tragic stories. Amid their chapters, subplots and characters, some of those stories took unbelievably strange...
Mad about Science: Venomous biology
By Breden Bobby Reader Columnist “In Africa, the saying goes ‘In the bush, an elephant can kill you, a leopard can kill you and a black mamba can kill you. But only with the...
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 the unyielding force of...
Mad about Science: Our moon is weird
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 in anticipation of the...
3d printing food
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 apply it now is...
Mad about Science: Big ships
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 brought the entire bridge...
Mad about Science: Complicated confections
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 person afflicted with an...
Mad about Science: Curious Medieval Sciences
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 knights slaying dragons at...
