Mad About Science: Video Game Achievements
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist Whether you love them or hate them, video game achievements have had a remarkable impact on our modern lives – even to people that don’t really play games. Achievements,...
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Mad About Science: Catfish
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist I’ll be frank, it’s been a rough week and we could all use a good laugh right about now. While the world is panicking about the coronavirus outbreak, stop...
Mad About Science: COVID-19
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist Preface: This article was researched and written on Monday, March 9, 2020. This is important, because by the time you’re reading this now, the numbers will have changed. In...
Mad About Science: Dyno Spheres
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist The world lost an incredible mind on Feb. 28. Dr. Freeman Dyson was a theoretical physicist with incredible ideas. While most articles would recap his life, career and various...
Mad About Science: Baby ducks and geese
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist If you caught Mad About Science last week, you’re in luck. Most of what applies to baby chicks also applies to baby waterfowl. However, waterfowl come with a host...
Mad About Science: Baby chicks
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist It’s February, which can mean one of two things: It’s cold enough to freeze your hand to your car door and make you call in sick to work, or...
Mad About Science: Awesome African-American scientists (pt. 2)
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist When you think about famous scientists, a lot of names come to mind: Thomas Edison, Marie Curie, Albert Einstein — but what about African-American scientists? The first two names...
Mad About Science: Awesome African-American scientists (pt. 1)
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist When I was in school, we learned about one black scientist: George Washington Carver, whom my history book at the time summed up as: “The African-American scientist that invented...
Mad About Science: Black-capped chickadees
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist In the heart of an inescapable and brutal winter, a faint glimmer of hope rings out amid the rime-encrusted bramble — faint, but unmistakable. Your heart flutters, your spirit...
Mad About Science: Night vision
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist The night is dark and full of terrors, so my wizard casts the Level 2 spell: Darkvision! But wait, how does it work? In the case of my wizard,...
