Mad About Science: Scary stuff
By Brenden Bobby
Reader Staff
I recently polled the staff at the Reader in anticipation of one of my favorite holidays: Halloween. I received some really great questions about the …
Category: Mad About Science
Mad About Science: Meatless meat
By Brenden Bobby
Reader Staff
Food plays a unique role in our lives: one part genetics, one part art, all parts necessity. Despite the multi-millionaire chefs on our TVs telling …
Mad About Science: Cool new 3-D prints
By Brenden Bobby
Reader Staff
Thought 3-D printing was a fad? While COVID-19 may have slowed down research in technology and manufacturing industries worldwide, it also helped illuminate the importance …
Mad About Science: Colonizing Mars, part 2
By Brenden Bobby
Reader Staff
It’s all led up to this. One small print for a man, one giant block of text for Bonner County!
In last week’s Mad About …
Mad About Science: Colonizing Mars, Part 1
By Brenden Bobby
Reader Columnist
Our subject today is too large to confine to a single page. Fortunately, the crew at the Reader tolerates my nonsense when I try to …
Mad About Science: Grapes
By Brenden Bobby
Reader Columnist
You may have heard that the banana is the highest grossing item in most superstores throughout the United States; so, logically, you would imagine that …
Mad About Science: The Svalbard Global Seed Vault
By Brenden Bobby
Reader Columnist
There exists a bunker buried deep in a mountain, on an island, halfway between Norway and the North Pole. This bunker is designed to survive …
Mad About Science
By Brenden Bobby
Reader Columnist
The ability to learn isn’t a human-specific trait. Every organic creature from the blue whale to bacteria have some capacity for learning — otherwise we …
Mad About Science: Small stuff in perspective
By Brenden Bobby
Reader Columnist
As a civilization we have spent nearly the past two years getting our butts kicked by something too small to see with the naked eye. …
Mad About Science: Clocks
By Brenden Bobby
Reader Columnist
When someone thinks about a complicated mechanical device, one will generally envision a clock. Anyone who has ever peered into the guts of a mechanical …
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TIMBER WARS: Six-part series, February-November 2022.
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THE AMERICAN REDOUBT: Seven-part series, November-December 2017.
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Coming up this week! Don’t miss Science fun, the Backcountry Film Festival, Insanity Fab, and more! See the full list of events in the Community Calendars:
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Sandpoint in Pictures
Filmmaker Jimmy Matlosz of the Idaho Film Company has made a series of mini documentaries about influential Sandpoint locals, including the late Dann Hall and Erik Daarstad as well as icons Diane Michaels and Dan Shook. He is currently working on a series of interviews connected to the history of the Panida Theater. Jimmy is a 30-year veteran filmmaker who’s work can be seen at dpmatlosz.com.
