Mad About Science: Catfish
By Brenden Bobby
Reader Columnist
I’ll be frank, it’s been a rough week and we could all use a good laugh right about now. While the world is panicking about …
By Brenden Bobby
Reader Columnist
I’ll be frank, it’s been a rough week and we could all use a good laugh right about now. While the world is panicking about …
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 …
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 …
By Brenden Bobby
Reader Columnist
That season Ned Stark all warned us about has finally come. I write to you now with fingers shivering, teeth chattering and a mug of …
By Brenden Bobby
Reader Columnist
Ever wonder why there are so many different kinds of snowflakes? Different conditions in the atmosphere create different kinds of snow, which can have big …
By Brenden Bobby
Reader Columnist
So, you got a brand new 7 million-inch TV on Black Friday for $8. Sure, to get it you only had to pick up another …
By Brenden Bobby
Reader Columnist
In the grand scheme of things, we’re all basically just apes with awesome tools. Just about all of our daily rituals, from brushing our teeth …
By Ben Olson
Reader Staff
For upwards of 16,000 years, some of the earliest evidence of human habitation in the Americas lay buried in Idaho, waiting to be discovered.
According …
By Brenden Bobby
Reader Columnist
They’ve blown up aliens, they’ve shot out of other aliens’ eyes, they’ve been tied to shark’s frickin’ heads. Lasers!
Since their first application in 1960, …
By Brenden Bobby
Reader Columnist
Our area has some passionate farmers and gardeners. Our area also has a pretty nasty reputation for having abysmal soil that no amount of potting …
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