Mad About Science: Science in 2018
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist Another year has come and gone. As we usher in ritualistic and often futile resolutions that don’t survive into February, the world just keeps on turning. Though, by nature,...
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Mad About Science: Weird Extraterrestrial Weather
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist Earth is pretty spectacular. We have wild weather, but nothing compared to some of the craziness in space. Jupiter has some of the most vicious wind we’ve ever observed,...
Mad About Science: Comets
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist It’s not every day that you get to see a comet. In some cases, it’s not every lifetime you get to see a comet. A comet is an amalgam...
Mad About Science: Old Stuff
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist Ahead, there’s plenty of fuel for informed “Yo’ Mamma” jokes. Disclosure: Brenden is not responsible for any bodily injuries you receive for unleashing the aforementioned jokes upon the world....
Mad About Science: ‘The Call of Cthulhu’
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist “Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn” “The Call of Cthulhu” was a short story written by H.P. Lovecraft, published in February 1928. It’s about the narrator, Francis Wayland Thurston,...
Mad About Science: Freaky Flora
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist Plants are weird. For organisms that eat poop and don’t move from the spot they were “born” their entire lives, they can be crazy intelligent. We’ve talked about orchids...
Mad About Science: Lobsters and Friends
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist Everyone’s favorite status dinner! Few things beat a succulent lobster tail drenched in enough butter to send you into cardiac arrest. What can be said about the lobster that...
Mad About Science: Idaho Dept. of Fish & Game
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist “All wildlife, including all wild animals, wild birds, and fish, within the state of Idaho, is hereby declared to be the property of the state of Idaho. It shall...
Mad About Science: Axes
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist ‘Tis the season for wood-chopping, fal-la-la-la-laaaaa. I’m sure some sharp-eyed reader is going to call me out on having done an article on axes before. Have I? That’s okay....
Mad About Science: Elk
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist That time of year has come and gone again. Countless pickup trucks sitting vacant in parking lots around private and public parking lots alike, the echo of gunshots in...
