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...
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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,...
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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...
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 timekeeper knows that it...
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By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: plants are amazing. Some plants have adapted to live for an unfathomably long time — think about Pando, the 108-acre...
Mad About Science: Kriegsspiel
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist If you know me at all, you know I am a complete geek for anything related to tabletop roleplaying games. Many people believe the history of tabletop RPGs, as...
Mad About Science: Magic
By Brenden Bobby Reader Staff We’ve all seen at least one magic performance in our lives. It may be difficult to explain, but it happens reliably again and again for our entertainment. If you...
