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Book Expo Highlights
Photo credit Andrea Schwalm/Big Huge Labs. I came home from Book Expo, the publishing industry’s annual trade show, with a suitcase full of books–including a raft of personally-inscribed future...
View ArticleConey Island Mermaid Parade 2013
Click to view slideshow. Back in May, there was some brief concern that the 2013 Coney Island Mermaid Parade, the largest art parade in the United States, would have to be cancelled. Hurricane Sandy...
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Saying “Neigh” to Equestria Girls
Previously, I’ve written about obstacles for women in the STEM pipeline, noting that despite the fact that STEM jobs are more stable and better paying, women only make up 24% of the STEM work force,...
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Ziplining
Ziplining, a video by Andrea Schwalm on Flickr. As it turns out, once it picks up speed, a zipline will emit this surprising, Galloping-Gertie-about-to-collapse twang-ang-ang that you can almost pluck...
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Photo Gallery: Booker Dewitt and Wolverine at Comic Con New York
Booker montage. Photo credit: Jonathan Calderon. This year, as something of a rite-of-passage, the high school senior and his best friend attended Comic Con New York, sans parentals. “Congratulations,”...
View ArticleWorld Science U. Announces Launch on The Colbert Report
Earlier this week, Science benefited from the infamous “Colbert bump” when string theorist and Columbia University physics professor Brian Greene came onto The Colbert Report to announce World Science...
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Review: Muppets Most Wanted
Still from Muppets Most Wanted. Photo credit: Walt Disney Pictures. You’ve seen all of the pre-movie build-up—some of it quite charming—but your wallet has been burned by kids’ movies in the past. So...
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Sample Excerpt: It’s Complicated, The Social Lives of Networked Teens
It’s Complicated by danah boyd. Photo credit: Yale University Press danah boyd is a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research, a Research Assistant Professor at New York University, and a Fellow at...
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Lottie Dolls Is Running a Super(hero) Costume Contest!
Girls can be superheroes, too! Photo credit: @Lottie_Dolls Here at GeekMom we’ve had some spirited behind-the-scenes debates on whether or not Barbie’s unrealistic dimensions affect a little girl’s...
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Coming to Terms With The Aesthetic Brain
The Aesthetic Brain: How We Evolved to Desire Beauty and Enjoy Art by Anjan Chatterjee. Photo credit: Oxford University Press. The first time that I tried to read Anjan Chatterjee’s book The Aesthetic...
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