Mad About Science: Ouija boards
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist Today’s spooky topic, in celebration of All Hallow’s Eve, was provided by Reader Publisher Ben Olson. “I was just remembering the other day about the Ouija board we used...
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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 science of scary things....
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 us otherwise, taste is...
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 of 3-D printing in...
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 Science article, we discussed...
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 pull off something as...
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 America’s favorite berry must...
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 earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, storms,...
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 would never have evolved...
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. SARS-CoV-2 is tiny, but...
