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Author: Samantha Cook

Re-Spawn: PC Video Game News for Week 50

December 18, 2017Samantha Cook

Reading Time: 3 minutesRe-Spawn PC Gaming Central. This is where it all happens. Welcome to PC video game news for week 50. Holidays are made for gaming! Well, in my house they are, so let’s catch you up on the latest PC gaming news in this abbreviated edition of Re-Spawn. Hey, I have to prep […]

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GeekMom Secret Origins: Samantha Fisher’s Journey Started With The Doctor

November 1, 2015December 15, 2017Samantha Cook2

Why did I become a geek? Alas, there is no one in my immediate family who has the same predilections as I. So how did this happen?

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This Geeky House: Hobbit Style

September 22, 2015December 4, 2017Samantha Cook

In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort.” –J.R.R. Tolkien, The […]

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This Geeky House: Enchanted Forest Inspired Home and Garden

August 24, 2015January 26, 2018Samantha Cook2

In This Geeky House, GeekMom Samantha Cook is inspired to hold onto the magic of summer with some Enchanted Forest inspired finds for your home and garden!

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Fund This! One Campaign to Rule Them All!

August 20, 2015December 3, 2017Samantha Cook

GeekMom Samantha finds the one campaign to rule them all in this special edition of Fund This!

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Fund This! Launching Your Own Campaign!

August 17, 2015December 3, 2017Samantha Cook

GeekMom Samantha Cook doles out some experienced advice on launching your own crowdfunding campaign in her latest installment of Fund This!

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Fund This! Crafteeo, iBesties, Maxwell's Soaps, and ReBoot the Suit!

July 28, 2015December 3, 2017Samantha Cook3

Conserving and displaying Neil Armstrong’s spacesuit, girls as CEOs and tech leaders, helping out the homeless, and a hackable suit of armor; all in GeekMom Samantha’s picks for this week’s Fund This!

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8 Reasons I'm Watching SyFy's New Show 'Killjoys'

July 23, 2015December 3, 2017Samantha Cook3

GeekMom Samantha shares her reasons for watching SyFy’s new space adventure “Killjoys,” and why you should be watching too.

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Fund This! Jewelbots, ABC Disgusting, Twistocity, and StemBox!

July 10, 2015December 3, 2017Samantha Cook

This week in Fund This!, GeekMom Samantha Cook finds a bracelet for tweens and teens that is interactive, social, and programmable, an ABC book that caters to those who like their stories a little gross, a tongue-twisting game, and a science subscription box.

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Bringing Science Home Again: 'The Annotated Build-It-Yourself Science Laboratory'

July 8, 2015December 3, 2017Samantha Cook1

GeekMom Samantha reviews “The Annotated Build-It-Yourself Science Laboratory,” a new take on an old guide to bringing the magic of science home.

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Fund This! My Magical Adventure, HidrateMe, and Avakai!

June 15, 2015December 2, 2017Samantha Cook

A customizable story book, a smart water bottle to keep you hydrated, and gorgeous wooden tech toys for a magical sensory experience in this week’s Fund This!

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This Geeky House: Designer Spotlight

June 8, 2015December 2, 2017Samantha Cook1

GeekMom Samantha Cook focuses her attention on the value of design and vision thanks to an interview with designer Jennifer Brouwer.

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Hey You Guys! ‘Goonies’ Celebrates Its 30th Anniversary!

June 1, 2015December 2, 2017Samantha Cook

Goonies is celebrating 30 years of adventure and friendship. GeekMom Samantha has some ideas on how you can join in on honoring the epic and iconic film!

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Fund This! Microduino mCookie, Liteseeds, Bloxels, and Linkitz!

May 30, 2015December 2, 2017Samantha Cook

This week in Fund This, Samantha Cook highlights a few of the ways we can celebrate and use technology with the Arduino based mCookie to take Lego to another very cool level, LED stickers to light up just about anything, a building block based video game, and programmable friendship bracelets.

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Screen-Free Week: 5 Reasons to Say No

May 5, 2015December 2, 2017Samantha Cook10

GeekMom Samantha has five good reasons on why you should say no to Screen Free Week, and what we should be doing instead to foster balance and connection in a technology-filled world.

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May the Fourth Be With You! 3 Activities to Hack Star Wars Day!

May 4, 2015December 2, 2017Samantha Cook

May the Fourth Be With You! GeekMom Samantha Cook shares three of her favorite projects to celebrate Star Wars Day!

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Fund This! Rain of the Ghosts, Urban Death Project, In their Own Worlds, and Schoolism!

April 25, 2015December 2, 2017Samantha Cook

This week in Fund This, GeekMom Samantha Cook explores a new audiocast, a new way to look at death, putting authors in their own world, and accessible art education!

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This Geeky House: Clearing the Way

April 15, 2015December 2, 2017Samantha Cook1

GeekMom Samantha Cook learns the Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing in This Geeky House.

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Fund This! Fleming and John, Single-Use Monocles, and mDrawbot!

April 1, 2015December 2, 2017Samantha Cook

A long-anticipated album, ocular protection for the refined gentleman or lady, and an all-in-one drawbot are in this edition of Fund This.

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Fund This! Hackaball, ‘Forgotten Colors,’ ‘Chainmail Bikini,’ Dungeon Blocks, and Pancakebot!

March 12, 2015December 2, 2017Samantha Cook

In the week’s Fund This, GeekMom Samantha Cook finds a programmable ball for play, a lustrous art book, an anthology of comics by and about women gamers, ABC blocks for teeny geeks, and a printer to make your pancakes for you in style!

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