Melanie Meadors, Author at GeekMom

Science Adventure: Let’s Learn About Snowflakes!

February 7, 2025February 7, 2025Melanie Meadors

In this Science Adventure, we’re going to learn all about snowflakes!

Guest Post: There’s a Dragon in My Cupcake!

November 14, 2024November 13, 2024Melanie Meadors

Alana Joli Abbott from Outland Entertainment is here to tell us all about this new game and picture book project.

Neighborly Galaxies: Does Size Matter?

August 27, 2024August 28, 2024Melanie Meadors

Do neighborly galaxies, those with lots of other galaxies around them, have any differences from those who are a bit more isolated?

Microraptor with text: Why don't birds have four wings?

Why Don’t Birds Have Four Wings Like Microraptor?

August 20, 2024August 19, 2024Melanie Meadors

If Microraptor’s four wings were so useful, why don’t birds today have them? Let’s explore some evolution.

What Is This? Solving the Mystery of Oak Apple Galls

August 6, 2024August 5, 2024Melanie Meadors

Have you ever found these balls in the forest and wondered what they are? GeekMom Mel explores oak apple galls and the creatures that make them.

Don’t You Get Hot? Linen and Historical Clothing in the Summer

July 14, 2024July 13, 2024Melanie Meadors

Find out how the linen and cotton fibers of historical clothing helped keep people cool in the summer heat.

The Inevitability of Human Impact on Nature

July 7, 2024July 6, 2024Melanie Meadors

Is human impact on nature inevitable no matter how hard we try? A recent study suggests it might be. But is that a bad thing?

Wood Frogs: Forest Friends With a Secret Power!

July 1, 2024July 1, 2024Melanie Meadors

Wood frogs are forest friends with a secret power that helps them survive!

Let’s Dance! Books to Get Preschoolers Moving–And Reading

January 1, 2024December 31, 2023Melanie Meadors

Do your kids have the wiggles? Here is a list of thirty books that will get your preschoolers moving AND reading!

Casting Dinosaur Footprints: Bringing Home a Piece of the Jurassic

October 29, 2023October 28, 2023Melanie Meadors

GeekMom Mel traveled to Connecticut to make a cast of real dinosaur footprints from the Jurassic Period two hundred million years ago!

Review: ‘The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet’

October 26, 2023October 25, 2023Melanie Meadors

GeekMom Mel reviews Becky Chambers’s science fiction/space opera novel The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet!

Therizinosaurus, Owner of the Biggest Claws in the Dinosaur World

October 20, 2023October 19, 2023Melanie Meadors

Therizinosaurus had huge, sickle-like claws, but scientists didn’t know why—until now.

Books, Games, Rock and Roll: An Interview With James L. Sutter

August 1, 2023July 31, 2023Melanie Meadors

Author James L. Sutter has been busy. In between the releases of his romantic young adult novel (‘Darkhearts,’ Wednesday Books/Macmillan) and two comics (‘Starfinder: Angels of the Drift #1,’ Dynamite Entertainment and the story “Remakers” in ‘Schlock Mercenary #17: A Little Immortality’) in June, plus writing for future projects, he found the time to answer a few questions about his work, particularly on ‘Darkhearts.’

YA Book Review: ‘Darkhearts’ by James L. Sutter

June 6, 2023June 5, 2023Melanie Meadors

Friends to enemies to frenemies to boyfriends–what’s not to love? Check out this review of young adult romance Darkhearts by James L. Sutter

Welcome Henry Herz, Co-Editor of ‘The Hitherto Secret Experiments of Marie Curie’

April 8, 2023April 7, 2023Melanie Meadors

Please join me in welcoming Henry Herz, author and co-editor of the new young adult anthology, ‘The Hitherto Secret Experiments of Marie Curie’!

‘Star Wars: The Bad Batch’ Fans Have These 10 Reasons to Hope

April 3, 2023April 2, 2023Melanie Meadors

‘Star Wars: The Bad Batch’ viewers got a shock with this week’s season two finale when our favorite group of misfit clones lost one of their own. Melanie thinks there is cause to have some hope that we haven’t seen the last of a fan favorite character.

For Grieving ‘Bad Batch’ Fans: 10 Ways to Cope

April 1, 2023March 31, 2023Melanie Meadors

It’s hard when we lose a person we love, even when it’s a fictional character like on ‘The Bad Batch.’ Here are some ways to cope. [Contains spoilers]