Mad About Science: Tomatoes
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,...
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Mad About Science: Microscopes
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...
Mad About Science: The Kardashev scale, Part II
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...
Mad About Science: The Kardashev Scale, Part I
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...
Broken living
By Rick Price Reader Contributor I chatted with the writer Mike Medberry the other day. I took notes about what he said so I could write up an interview. When I looked for them,...
Library introduces new virtual reality flight simulator
By Ben Olson Reader Staff After flying more than 90 combat missions in Vietnam, Barney Ballard gave up flying in 1974. Thanks to a new piece of technology at the Sandpoint branch of the...
Mad About Science: Hummingbirds
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...
Mad About Science: Flubber, gloop and slime
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...
Mad About Science: High winds
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...
Mad About Science: Ponderosa pine
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist Living in 7B, you can look in virtually any cardinal direction and spot a ponderosa pine. They are massive trees with thick trunks that can stand nearly 300 feet...
