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Puzzle me this! | GeekDad Puzzle of the Week: Electoral Map
The difference between a geek and the rest of the world is this: tomorrow, while the rest of the world watches the popular vote, geeks will be watching the electoral map (or even -- be still my beating...
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Watch This | Brain Power Film and TED Book with Tiffany Shlain
How is a child's developing brain like the internet? An how can both develop better? These are the central questions of Webby founder Tiffany Shlain's latest film, Brain Power, accompanied by a TED...
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Puzzle me this! | GeekDad Puzzle of the Week Answer: Electoral Map
The map coloring puzzle is a popular one in academia, used as an example of a task that humans do well and computers do poorly. That's partly because there are so many possibilities and a change in...
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Game on! | App Review: QatQi Breaks the Word Game Grid
Instead of a grid or graph, the word game QatQi from veteran independent developer Chris Garrett, released today for i-gadgets, opens with a single, pulsing, blue circle, a little reminiscent of the...
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Puzzle me this! | GeekDad Puzzle of the Week: Thanksgiving Defies Logic
This week my wife made a new Pandora station. It seems seeded on Donald Duck and a too-cute Minnie Mouse warbling something about the joy of Santa Claus and/or buying battery powered things that break...
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Let's Celebrate! | Little Heroes Teaches Thanksigiving With Little to Give
Our parents taught us to open our mouths to say thank you and now that we're parents ourselves, society has taught us to open our wallets to do the same. Yes, it's that time of year again: the season...
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Wayback Machine | Calculating the Effort Required for a Successful Thanksgiving
Last week while baking muffins with my son's preschool class, I set fire to the school. Okay, technically I didn't set it on fire—it was only butter smoke from the tin that set off the alarm,...
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Puzzle me this! | GeekDad Puzzle of the Week Answer: Thanksgiving Defies...
Is it Thursday already? Oh man, that was some strong Thanksgiving brew. Now that I've Rip Van Winkled back to the land of the living, it seems past time to announce the winner of last week's GeekDad...
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Sleep-Deprived Kids? Not So Much, Says 6776-Child Study
There are things we know to be true, including the impending Mayan end of the world and the fact that kids are increasingly getting too little sleep. However, at least the second appears to hold less...
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Puzzle me this! | GeekDad Puzzle of the Week: Present, Start to Finish
Solve the puzzle of the week for your chance at a $50 ThinkGeek gift certificate. This week, survive a single present. Only 315 days until Columbus Day!
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Kickstarter Alert | Atoms: Make Things That Do Things
It quickly became apparent that the only thing limiting the use of Atoms was my lack of imagination. See, Atoms are sensors and motors -- you make something and an Atom makes it go.
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Puzzle me this! | GeekDad Puzzle of the Week Answer: Present, Start to Finish
There are only 56 days until Groundhogs Day and so time is running short to secure the extra funding of $50 from ThinkGeek, available every week by playing the puzzle. This week's puzzle was won by a...
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Puzzle me this! | GeekDad Puzzle of the Week: The Present Game
Imagine a row of seven presents. Their values are $1, $2, $3, $4, $5, $6 and $40. You don't know what's inside and so don't know which present matches each value. It costs $7 to pick a present at...
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Puzzle me this! | GeekDad Puzzle of the Week Answer: Present Game
It turns out my kids are experts at determining expected value: the size, weight and number of presents under the tree have now been precisely determined and weighed against each other to determine...
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Puzzle me this! | GeekDad Puzzle of the Week: New Year’s Insight
Have you ever been hit in the head with a frying pan? Neither have I. But that's the way folks describe the experience of insight, perhaps without the resultant need for a head CT. Test your insight on...
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Puzzle me this! | GeekDad Puzzle of the Week Answer: New Year’s Insight
Here's a test: did you analyze your way to this week's solution, scrolling through possible answers in an organized way while trying to match possibilities to the three starting terms? Or did you sit...
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Puzzle me this! | GeekDad Puzzle of the Week: Cubic Corners
To calculate the perimeter of a square, you multiply a side by four. To calculate the perimeter of a cube, you multiply a side by 12. But what, now, are the possible perimeters of my family's...
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Puzzle me this! | GeekDad Puzzle of the Week Answer: Cubic Corners
It seems that a notable frequent solver of the puzzle forgot that the removed block would leave new, interior edges that would technically now be "perimeter," in addition to removing the edges that...
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Kickstarter Alert | Return to Zero: A Beautiful Movie About Terrible Things
In 2005 at week 37 of their pregnancy, Sean Hanish and his wife Kiley discovered their child had lost his heartbeat. Norbert was born still. Sean's written the experience into what's likely the most...
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Puzzle me this! | GeekDad Puzzle of the Week: Guinea Pig, Labrador, Kale
Templeton the guinea pig eats kale. In fact, if Templeton is left in the house alone, she will find all the kale and eat it. We also have two Labradors. They do not eat kale. But they would happily eat...
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