Crafty Hands: From My Mom to GeekMom
by Ruth Suehle “Better you than me.” That was my mother’s way of saying, “Are you insane?” And it’s what she said to me three years ago when she saw me magnifying a 300-pixel-high image of Keira...
View ArticleRoller Zombies Make Good Role Models
This guest post is by Rebecca Angel Maxwell Jen Hanley, like many librarians, has an outlet. A way to express the vivacious individual she is beyond the stacks of quiet books. For Jen, that way is on...
View ArticleUncovering the History of the Hula Hoop
To me, part of being a mom is enjoying my kid’s toys as much as they do. My natural inquisitiveness leads me to wonder where a lot of these toys come from. And recently I looked at the Hula Hoop. ...
View ArticleIt’s Go-Time for Picture Me in Computing!
One of my happiest Geek Mom moments this week came when my five year old son decided that he wanted to try to implement an algorithm in Scratch that we had discussed over dinner. It’s not like we...
View ArticleIn Search of the Elusive Polar Bear License Plate
Two years ago my two kids and I started noticing something odd around town. There seemed to be an inordinate number of out-of-state license plates. Of course, we live in a tourist destination, and we...
View ArticleSaturday November 13th is National Gaming Day!
More than 1,800 libraries are going to celebrate National Gaming Day on Saturday November 13, 2010. Although this is the American Library Association’s third annual National Gaming Day, there are...
View ArticleCERN’s Mini-Big Bang Did Not Destroy the Universe
Near Geneva, under the border between France and Switzerland, is a 27 km (17 mile) long circular tunnel. Inside this tunnel is the Large Hadron Collider, built by CERN, the European Organization for...
View ArticleReading for the Future Uses SciFi to Spark Kids’ Sense of Wonder
I love reading Science Fiction. Well, I love reading almost any type of Speculative Fiction, whether it be Science, Fantasy, Alternate History, Supernatural, maybe even a bit of Horror around...
View ArticleCutta Cutta, The Cat Who Taught Something to MIT Engineers
Once upon a time there was a beautiful black cat named Cutta Cutta who lived with MIT Associate Professor Dr. Roman Stocker and his family. Dr. Stocker went to work every day at MIT and worked hard...
View ArticleAn Invitation to the World’s Biggest Magic Party with Felicity from Thin Air
Dear GeekMom Readers, I would like to cordially invite your children and your fine self to the world’s biggest magic party this December. It’s all free and it’s all good. Let me show you a magic trick....
View ArticleMath Toys and Games for Toddlers to Tweens
This guest post comes from engineer-turned-math-teacher (or “maths,” as they say in Britain) Caroline Mukisa of Maths Insider: Whether your geek child finds math difficult and needs more practice or...
View ArticleThe Truth About “Chinese Mothers”
Jonathan Liu, a Core Contributor to our companion blog GeekDad, offered to share his thoughts with GeekMom readers about a topic that hit close to home for him: Over the weekend, I was pointed to an...
View ArticleSexuality and the Geek Week: Pure Pleasure
In the case of the V-word, it seems silly to be embarrassed. After all, the word vibrator has a number of uses, most of them non-titillating. For example, a vibrator is a setting on a number of musical...
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