Mad About Science: Baby chicks
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist It’s a bit of an annual tradition this time of year for me to write about baby chicks. If you’re tired of seeing me write about these adorable little...
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Mad About Science: Bonsai
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist Have you ever looked at a bonsai tree and thought to yourself, “So what? It’s a tiny tree.” Exactly. Bonsai trees are tiny trees. They aren’t other plants masquerading...
Mad About Science: Cities: Skylines
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist Everyone is talking about “the Couplet” right now — you thought you could escape it in “Mad About Science,” but alas, it has invaded your favorite science blurb, as...
Mad About Science: Managing fire
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist Fire has been humankind’s greatest ally and adversary for at least 300,000 years. It’s easy to believe that dousing a runaway flame with water will extinguish it, but this...
Mad About Science: Northern flicker
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist Every year, around this time I hear a little tap, tap, tap at the window. First thing in the morning, it’s always a little bit disorienting — who is...
Mad About Science: Vinyl Chloride
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist In the wake of the Norfolk Southern train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, on Feb. 3, a substance called vinyl chloride has been making headlines and appearing all over...
Mad About Science: Bubonic plague in America
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist It’s easy to look at our cars, homes and electronic devices, and think that we’re so much more advanced as a species than we were a hundred years ago....
Mad About Science: Dyslexia
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist Have you ever experienced a moment in school where you drifted off into a daydream, just to be snapped back to reality by your teacher asking you a question?...
Mad About Science: Arquebuses, blunderbusses and muskets
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist We’ve explored the history of firearms before, but several thousand years is hard to cover in a page. Today, we’re going to take a look at some of the...
Mad About Science: Muppets and puppets
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist “As children, we all live in a world of imagination, of fantasy, and for some of us that world of make-believe continues into adulthood.” — Jim Henson Puppetry is...
