Geeky Projects Make Learning a Joy
Parenting can have serious challenges, but learning shouldn’t be one of them. It should be fun.
Continue ReadingParenting can have serious challenges, but learning shouldn’t be one of them. It should be fun.
Continue ReadingFun, easy, experiments to do with your kids.
Continue ReadingGeekMom Helen explores water science with her own mini scientist, using Lisa Burke’s Water Fun book.
Continue ReadingWe know the wrong way to create the reaction nicknamed “Elephant Toothpaste.”
Continue ReadingThe government shutdown, from a GeekMom point of view.
Continue ReadingWhip up a batch of homemade bubble solution and start blowing!
Continue ReadingGo ahead, give yourself an alternative identity. It’s a way of experimenting with reality. And it’s fun.
Continue ReadingBaking can teach you a lot of things. Following directions, measuring, fractions, and even chemistry.
Continue ReadingAutonomous robots able to lie, kill humans, eat meat, and operate indefinitely using power pillaged by lasers aren’t waiting in some distant sci-fi future. No. That future is now.
Continue ReadingCome meet some of the GeekMoms and GeekDads writers in the Expo Hall at Maker Faire Bay Area this weekend, May 18th and 19th!
Continue ReadingThis traveling circus is looking to blend science, technology, engineering, art, and math.
Continue ReadingIn 2012 archaeologists at the Jamestown site uncovered the remains of an English girl, roughly 14 years in age, showing the first physical evidence of cannibalism.
Continue ReadingIn our favorite astrophysicist’s latest installment on AOL On’s “School of Thought” series, Neil deGrasse Tyson discusses a little-known-about paper written in the 1950s, titled “Synthesis of the Elements in Stars” and published in several scholarly journals such as Reviews of Modern Physics. This paper discussed the formation of the fundamental elements on earth, those that are taught to us in the periodic table of the elements.
Continue ReadingScientists, astronomers, and amateur stargazers are all abuzz – the Hawaii Board of Land and Natural Resources granted a permit for the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) project to be built atop Mauna Kea. The TMT promises to let us explore the galaxy’s origins, allow the analysis of black holes, and explore the formation of planets and stars.
Continue ReadingToday we, along with Google Doodle, celebrate the birthday of Swiss mathematician Leonhard Euler (1707-1783). Euler completed work in astronomy, physics, and mechanics, but he remains most famous for his work in mathematics.
Continue ReadingIf 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 an global 2-day hackathon where you can collaborate towards solving any of the 50 proposed challenges. Challenges vary greatly and anyone, not just programmers, are welcome to contribute.
Continue ReadingYesterday the U.S. Navy announced a cancelation of the remainder of the 2013 Blue Angels demonstration team air show season. The impacts expand beyond just the financial. My heart is very heavy about this from a parenting perspective. We are denying our kids critical exposure to STEM skills.
Continue ReadingThe film, titled Do You Know What My Name Is? is said to showcase a “learning therapy that can reverse symptoms of dementia.” The word “reverse” is pretty big when we’re talking about dementia. What do you think, hope or hype?
Continue ReadingI cannot express to you how excited I was to find out there was a new Mary Roach book on the bookstore shelves. I devoured her other books and couldn’t wait to dive into this one. Or maybe I should say I couldn’t wait to bite into this one. This entertaining science writer’s newest work […]
Continue ReadingThe Ashfall Fossil Beds State Historical Park isn’t necessarily near anything. We endured a 360-mile round trip in one day — six hours worth of driving to and from our then-home in Bellevue, Nebraska — for about two hours of exploration in a very rural part of northeastern Nebraska.
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