Things Mason saw on his bike ride
Mason bravely shared the road with these combustion powered driving machines
What are cars?
What is a thagomizer?
This planet is the largest in our solar system
What is Jupiter
This plant, sacred to Native Americans of the Great Lakes area, has experiences a surge in prominence in recent decades along the Mississippi River.
What is wild rice?
This exercise targets the pectoral muscles in a pushing movement. It is widely considered one of the most "bro" exercises one can partake in
What is the bench press?
What are take-out restaurants
This creature grew from meager, bipedal ancestry to towering bipedal heights that placed them at the top of the leaderboard of the world's largest land animals
One of the most common animal fossils of all time
What is a trilobite
These long lived fish are the largest that inhabit the Mississippi. Mason saw a 5-6 foot long one as a child!
What is a Lake Sturgeon?
This essential piece of weightlifting equipment allows weights to be places on either side of a long weighted rod.
What is a barbell?
Mason looked both ways when crossing the tracks of this staple Minneapolis transportation system
What is the metro?
This ancient relative of birds was portrayed to be much larger in film than it really was
What is velociraptor?
A premier WRS class taught by Diana Karwan
What is Hydrology and Watershed Management?
This fish, commonly sought as a sport fish, prefers shallower and more densely vegetated habitat than it's rock-dwelling cousin.
What is the largemouth bass?
This molecule, when ingested, accumulates in muscle tissues and allows for faster recovery from muscle tissue damage. Though long accused of having adverse side effects, studies have shown that it has no long term adverse effects of any kind.
What is creatine?
Mason was surprised to see a University of Minnesota branded one of these on his bike ride, selling college student's favorite weekend activity.
What is a liquor store?
These armored dinos used special tails to break the bones of their predators
What are Ankylosaurids?
The molecule in spicy food responsible for the burning sensation we feel when imbibing.
What is capsacin?
These voracious fish are making their way up the Mississippi, displacing natives and often giving boaters a good reason to wear head protection.
What are Asian carp?
This sport, increasingly popular in suburbia, does not really require one to build up any muscle to be good. This is because it's mostly played by people of the elderly persuasion.
What is pickleball?
Mason saw one of these animals resting on the grass in a park after taking a wrong turn. A just reward for his mistake! It didn't fly off as he slowly biked by and tried to remember it's species from his recent book purchase.
What is a hawk?
These duck-billed dinos have been speculated to be swamp dwellers. One thing is for certain, they had an appetite for a wide variety of plants
What are hadrosaurs?
Mason's favorite type of chip
What is corn tortilla?
This group of aquatic plants live in slow moving, nutrient poor waters. To make up for that, they've evolved a form of predation!
What are bladderworts?
Mason's favorite exercise is this one, which uses a machine to target the latissimus dorsi muscles.
What is the lat pulldown?