By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist Banned Books week is my favorite library holiday. Proclaiming such a thing always elicits a unique response from everyone around me. Usually shock and confusion — why would I...
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist Think about your pantry for a moment. Does a banana, a potato or a tomato interest you? Have you ever thought about where that fruit or vegetable came from,...
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist Think about a microscope for a moment. What does your mind’s eye illuminate? Are you imagining a doctor in a white lab coat leaning over a high-tech-looking tube surrounded...
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist Last week, we learned about what kinds of civilizations could exist in the vast expanse of space and what kind of technology humans would need in order to achieve...
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist Human beings are a global species, harvesting energy to transport supplies around the planet. We’re the only species we’ve ever observed that exists at such a scale, so it’s...
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist We’ve all learned about one major mass extinction event in school. The end of the dinosaurs, gone in a singular dramatic flash! That’s not exactly true. While dinosaur extinction...
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist I first learned about the Great Missoula Floods when I was in elementary school in the ’90s. I listened in wide-eyed wonder to my teacher describing the events of...
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist Hummingbirds are unique creatures. They are capable of hovering, similar to many winged insects, and they feed from flowers similarly to bees. What you might not realize is that...
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist We’ve been conditioned to think that gooey, slimy, sticky things are gross, and it’s true! A slimy surface is usually indicative of a bacterial film growing, and this can...
By Ben Olson Reader Staff We have an inside joke in the Reader office. On Wednesdays, our deadline day to put out this weekly effort, a few hundred tasks all come together before we...
