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T-Shirts Nerd Girls Hate
posted by CC Chainey on September 20, 2011
After an explosion of outrage from parents, JC Penny removed this T-Shirt, emblazoned with “I’m too pretty to do my HOMEWORK so my brother has to do it for me,” and sized for girls ages 7-16, from its website this week. Thankfully, the item was not stocked in stores for girls to pick out as a complement to their new backpack and pencil case. JC Penny pulled it quickly and issued an apology.
Steampunk City!
posted by Katy Williams on July 11, 2011
From May 6 to May 8, 2011, the entire city of Waltham, MA, transformed itself for a Steampunk Festival hosted by the Charles River Museum of Industry and Innovation. There was art, dance, film, and, of course, elaborate Victorian costumes, all in the Steampunk tradition, celebrating the union of the innovation and imagination of the futurists of the late 19th century with the technological capabilities of 2011.
Geeks seeking geeks: A guide to nerd-friendly online dating
posted by Amy Lynch on March 25, 2010
Dating is hard. Those of us who want to find that missing jigsaw puzzle piece are constantly dealing with the frustrations of wading through a sea of mismatches, while those of us who just want to play the field can sometimes feel disconnected, alone and not just a little bit jaded. According to those in the know, it can be even harder for the… ahem… more intelligent set.
Chic Geek of the Week: Tina Fey
posted by Amy Lynch on December 04, 2008
She was the first female to earn the position of head writer of America’s most famous live sketch comedy show. She was named one of the “100 People Who Shape Our World” by TIME magazine. She immortalized herself as a master impersonator - and, frankly, spitting image of - one of the most polarizing figures in world politics today. And she made librarian glasses cool.
Tina Fey’s razor-sharp wit was evident in eighth grade when she leapt headfirst into an independent study project about comedy. Born to a brokerage employee and a grant writer in a suburb of Philadelphia, she grew up watching Saturday Night Live in the 1970s and 80s. Little did she know back then that she would later contribute to the episodes that raked in the show’s highest ratings ever (and became NBC.com’s most-watched viral video) by doing a series of dead-on impressions of vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin.
Chic Geek of the Week: Danica McKellar
posted by Amy Lynch on July 25, 2008
This week’s brainiac bombshell: Danica McKellar. You may remember her as Kevin Arnold’s long-standing crush, Winnie Cooper, on the classic television show The Wonder Years. More recently, you might have caught her in her role as Elsie Snuffin on The West Wing or Trudy on How I Met Your Mother. Or perhaps you’ve perused a physics journal and stumbled across the Chayes-McKellar-Winn Theorem she co-authored before graduating summa cum laude in mathematics from UCLA.
Danica took a break from acting to pursue her studies in math and then took her education a step further by sharing it with anyone who would listen.
(photo credit: USA Today)