Mad About Science: The science and importance of reading (part 1)
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist Stop for a moment and contemplate how incredible it is that you are reading. As far as we are aware, primates — and humans in particular — are the...
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Mad About Science: Automata
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist Humans like to put labels onto things and organize them neatly into their own little boxes, from which they are never allowed to escape. However, being the silly blood...
Mad About Science: Cardboard science
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist Your Amazon box may have a big smile plastered across the front of it, but that does little to ease your frustrations when trying to cram 50 of them...
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: 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,...
