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National Robotics Week 2011: April 9 – 17
The second annual National Robotics Week is being held in the US right now — it started yesterday, and runs until next Sunday, April 17. It consists of a series of regional events and activities aimed...
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The Universe Verse Books: Fantastic
You really have to love any book that starts with a notice that reads: Warning: This book contains graphic depictions of scientific knowledge which may lead to decreased ignorance and heightened...
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Galileo’s Finger
If you are a science geek the Galileo Museum of the History of Science in Florence, Italy, is a treasure house of wonder — even though it’s almost everything a science museum should not be. The Bad The...
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City Tours With Kids on Segways
Can there possibly be a more geeky way to tour a city than on a Segway? So geeky and so, so cool. My family and I spent four-and-a-half hours yesterday touring Madrid, Spain on Segways. Madrid is a...
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Help With Geeky Travel in New York City
What should a geeky family do for a week in New York in September? We’ll be fresh from the wilds of Iceland and on our way to Peru and we have one week to make sure we extract maximum value from New...
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The American Museum of Natural History – Guided by Phones
I’m developing a theory after visiting the American Museum of Natural History in New York City last week: the theory is that you can judge a science museum by the geeky quality of the t-shirts worn by...
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What to See in Washington DC?
Once again I’m looking for travel help from the Geekdad community. My family is turning up in Washington DC in early October, fresh from deepest, darkest Peru. What should we see in our two weeks in...
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Spies in the City: The International Spy Museum
How often do you get to adopt a cover identity and wander around being Dimitri, a 48-year old Russian fisherman, or Jimmy, a 12-year-old English student, for the afternoon? Happens to you a lot? Well,...
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What to Do in San Francisco?
In two weeks’ time my globe-trotting family will wash up on the shores of San Francisco Bay — our last stop before heading home to Australia. The big question on our lips is: What are the geeky things...
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Killing Orcs With the Kids
I dodge left and hurl myself between my 8-year-old and the advancing orc. My other son takes out a couple of goblins while my wife provides cover from above with her trusty crossbow. The eight-year-old...
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Productivity Warning: Minecraft for iOS Released
Fans — or should that be addicts? — of Minecraft now have another means of getting their building fix with the just-released Minecraft – Pocket Edition for iOS. The iOS version follows, and is pretty...
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Help Build a 12-Foot Tall Lego Yoda Santa, You May
You can help build a 12-foot tall Lego Yoda Santa if you are in San Francisco this weekend. And really, what could possibly be more geeky than that? A group of Lego master builders are creating a...
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Jabba the Cupcake
Boing Boing points to this wonderful, wonderful cupcake. Really, could it be more perfect?
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10 of the Best Geeky Places in San Francisco
San Francisco is a treasure trove of geeky places to visit with kids. A little while ago I asked what my family should do for two weeks in San Francisco. So here, in no particular order, are the ten...
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When Bricks Become Art
The obvious question when contemplating art made from Lego bricks is: what is the line that separates a kids’ toy from art? It doesn’t take long meandering amongst Nathan Sawaya’s wonderful creations...
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Code Hero: Save the World and Learn to Code
Code Hero is a game that teaches you to code. The game is a co-op first-person science shooter where you use a code gun to manipulate code. Your code gun can copy code like new items and fire it like ...
View ArticleNinja Blocks: Connect Your World With the Web
Imagine not just reading a chemistry textbook but having the results of the experiments you are doing at that moment in time incorporated into it. It’s that sort of interactivity that is the promise of...
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Beautiful Math and Statistics by Email
Every week a little dash of math and statistics floats into my mailbox. I make no claims to be a mathematician, but I’ve learned a great deal from my regular injection of numerate thinking provided by...
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Quantum Conundrum – a Great Family Computer Game
The simplest way to describe Quantum Conundrum is that it is Portal with a softer edge. Quantum Conundrum is a first-person puzzle game set in a pastel, cartoon-like environment with a light-hearted...
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