By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist Information is the most valuable currency available to humankind. Gold and silver are great, but the information of how to steal someone else’s gold and silver while protecting your...
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist What is this mystical substance that squirts out of a can and foams up on your face, legs, pits or bits to make shaving a breeze? How did human...
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist It’s no secret that I’m a bit of a food nut. Hunger and the avoidance of it is a driving force behind virtually every human behavior. We can consume...
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist We’re back to examine some wacky warfare tactics used successfully throughout human history. Last week we learned about siege Oreos and the U.S. Army, French prisoners of war and...
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist The story of the Titanic is an infamous one. It has all the makings of a truly great story: wealth, opulence and hubris crushed by the unyielding force of...
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnis A total solar eclipse occurred April 8 over parts of Mexico, the eastern United States and eastern Canada. Some people gave away their life savings in anticipation of the...
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist Earlier this week, tragedy struck in Baltimore when the container ship the MV Dali collided with the supports of the Francis Scott Key Bridge, which brought the entire bridge...
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist Sorry, 7B. This one is a birthday present to myself. Cue the sad, lonely, lip-dampened noisemaker celebrating the slow march to the grave. As a person afflicted with an...
Zach Hagadone Reader Staff When my aunt and uncle visited a couple of years ago from England, the latter brought along a folder of genealogical research he’d compiled about his side of the family...
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist I was an 8-year-old nerd in a class full of boys — who were primarily jocks — when Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa fought an epic duel, leapfrogging one...
