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Missing The Blue Angels Already? Keep Your Kids Looking Up With National Kite...
Santa Barbara Kite Festival. Photo by Ariane Coffin. Put on your sneakers and dust off your kites, April is National Kite Month! The American Kitefliers Association and the Kite Trade Association...
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Join The International Space Apps Challenge Hackathon
International Space Apps Challenge Website If you ever wished you could be a part of space exploration, then you’ll want to free up your weekend on April 20th. The International Space Apps Challenge is...
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Google Doodle Celebrates Leonhard Euler’s Birthday!
Google Doodle for Leonhard Euler Today we, along with Google Doodle, celebrate the birthday of Swiss mathematician Leonhard Euler (1707-1783). Euler completed work in astronomy, physics, and mechanics,...
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Stitch Fix: A Personal Styling Service Subscription Box
My second Stitch Fix box. I would say I’m a pretty typical mom. When my favorite pants or shirts are all ripped, not because they’re ridiculously hip but because I’ve worn the bejesus out of them, I...
View ArticleHappy Birthday to Computer Scientist Ivan Sutherland!
Dr. Ivan Sutherland doesn’t register at the same level of public fame as Grace Hopper or Bill Gates, yet his accomplishments in computer graphics advanced the field of Computer Science tremendously....
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GeekMom and GeekDad Will Be at Maker Faire Bay Area 2013
Maker Faire Logo, image from makerfaire.com. Just when it feels like everyone knows about Maker Faire, I take a step back out of my geek circle and find that, to my surprise, very few of my non-geeks...
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Make Every Day Towel Day
Don’t Forget The Towel! Photo from flick user puuikibeach under CC. In honor of Towel Day, I could tell you about my love for Douglas Adams and how much The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy means to...
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Genetic Testing With 23andMe: Affordable Test, Fun Data
Have you ever wondered what your DNA could reveal about you? 23andMe is a private company that provides affordable DNA testing. For $99, you can find out what your body isn’t telling you. I first...
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Why I Hate Why: Part Deux
When I was pregnant with my first child, one of the things I was looking forward to the most about becoming a parent was answering all of my child’s endless questions. I often saw adults get annoyed...
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How a Dragon Helped My 3-Year-Old Understand Internal Combustion Engines
My daughter has loved the movie How to Train Your Dragon since the first time she watched it around 18 months old. Eventually I purchased the book The Art of How to Train Your Dragon so we could...
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Make Sense of Large Numbers With Dictionary of Numbers
My husband and I are avid readers of the XKCD webcomic, and we occasionally remember to also check the XKCD blog. It’s not frequently updated but when a new post does show up, it’s always a good one....
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Get Mentored by a NASA Employee… Sorry, Kids Only!
NASA GIRLS & BOYS logo, used with permission. Last year, I had the chance to talk to Mamta Patel Nagaraja of NASA about their pilot NASA GIRLS online summer program. The 5-week program offered...
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Geeky Names Wanted!
Lovely fairies. Image from Pyronious, Flickr CC. Last week I found out I’m the proud host of a little baby girl. Now let the naming game begin! My thoughts over the last week having been busy taking...
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Video Game Journalist Ryan Davis of Giant Bomb Dies at 34
Ryan Davis (on the right) during the Cards Against Humanity panel at PAX East 2013. Photo by flickr user cabbit, CC. Giant Bomb announced yesterday that video game journalist Ryan Davis has passed...
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Meet S/2004 N 1, Neptune’s Newly Discovered Moon
Neptune’s new moon, photo credit of NASA, ESA, and M. Showalter (SETI Institute) On July 15th, NASA announced the discovery of a new moon for Neptune. Making it Neptune’s 14th moon, S/2004 N 1 was...
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New Speakaboos App Offers Fun Read-Along Stories For Kids
© Speakaboos Speakaboos is a digital story subscription service aiming to promote the love of reading to children. Their constantly expanding digital library currently offers 150 stories written or...
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Boys vs. Girls: What’s In Your Toy Chest?
Boys toys vs. girl toys. Photo by Scott Ableman via Flick CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. Among all of us writing for GeekMom, we certainly cover a wide array of opinions and experiences. Especially so when it comes...
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The Flawed Ethos of In-App Purchases in Mobile Games
An inforgraphic from EEDAR’s latest report. Image: EEDAR The GeekMoms were chatting about how much we hate in-app purchases when this wonderful infographic from EEDAR, a video game research firm,...
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Take the Survey! What Character Traits Do You Most Want to Instill in Your...
Word cloud of character traits popular with the GeekMoms. Graph by Ariane Coffin using Wordle. When we were expecting our first child, my husband and I attended a childbirth class at the local...
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Nine Badass Quotes That Motivate
Rockstar guitar. Photo by Sebastiaan ter Burg, Flickr CC 2.0 Need an extra boost of confidence to face your nemesis? Need to get in the mood for a kid-free weekend trip? Here are some of my favorite...
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