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16 Things Young Geeks Should Know About Internet Culture
Geeks need a solid understanding of the critical language of the Internet. Even though our family Geek Camp focused on technology—either playing with it or visiting it at sites around town—a big part...
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Tesla’s Wonderful World of Electricity at The New York Hall of Science
Photo Courtesy of The New York Hall of Science July 10th is celebrated around the world as Nikola Tesla day to honor the Serbian inventor who’s influence on the modern world is immeasurable. Tesla held...
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Serious Comics, Part 7: Making History
After the fiction-based list from last time, I wanted to spend a week or two talking about some great non-fiction comics. Non-fiction writing, particularly biographies and coverage of historical...
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Random Geek Roundup #11
Ptolemy’s geocentric solar system. Welcome to the eleventh irregular installment of Random Geek Roundup! This is where I collect a variety of links and sites and products that have come across my...
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Research Possibilities Are Endless With Lineal Timeline for iPad
Image: Apposite Labs Timelines are very popular ways of visualizing data. Look at textbooks, magazines, presentations, reports, and other media. They all use timelines to give you order of and context...
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Experience War Through Graphic Novels
Image: Zenith Press Sometimes it is difficult to get students engaged in lessons about wartime. It can be just a series of names and dates to them, and if you’ve never experienced war, you might have a...
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Lonely Planet Not-For-Parents Books Take Kids Back in Time and Around the World
Image: Lonely Planet One of the first things that many of us do when planning a trip is to buy a good guide book. Even today, in the age of Google, these guidebooks are invaluable for planning, and...
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Random Geek Roundup #13
Here is Edison, with one of his more successful projects, the phonograph. Photo: Italy’s Wikipedia Welcome to the thirteenth irregular installment of Random Geek Roundup! This is where I collect a...
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Great Geeks in History: Aristotle
Geek culture is forward-looking to a degree unparalleled in almost any other subculture. Geeks tend to live in the future or, at the very least, the cutting edge of the present. Yet like all peoples...
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Fun With History: The Bayeux Tapestry
Look! GeekDad was a part of the Norman Conquest! Image assembled by Jenny Williams using the Historic Tale Construction Kit. Possibly not actually a real tapestry, but rather an embroidered piece of...
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10 Reasons the History of Science Matters
Frontispiece of the Rudolphine Tables by Johannes Kepler. Image: Public Domain Imagine not knowing how gravity works. Or how disease is spread. Or what Earth looks like from space. All of this was once...
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You Will Want to Own Letters of Note
Image: LettersofNote.com Based on the popular website by the same name, Letters of Note‘s subtitle is very telling: “An Eclectic Collection of Correspondence Deserving of a Wider Audience.” This book...
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Today’s Document: Learn About History, One Document at a Time
Regarding George Washington’s Oath of Office, National Archives. (See more than page one at http://todaysdocument.tumblr.com/post/84322163697/congressarchives-225th-anniversary-of-the-first) If you’re...
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An Abandoned Island in the Middle of New York City
Image: Fordham University Press North Brother Island sits in the East River, between the Bronx and Manhattan, near Rikers Island. It’s abandoned, but it wasn’t always so. In 1885, Riverside Hospital...
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Designers & Dragons 4-Volume Role Playing Game History Series via Kickstarter
If you’re like me and are fascinated by the history of role playing games (RPGs), the folks over at Evil Hat Productions are about to make your day. I’ve written recently about some of the current...
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Jules Verne Meets Steampunk in 80 Days App
Image: Inkle London 1872. You are the valet to Monsieur Phileas Fogg who has just taken on a wager that he can travel around the world in 80 days. You don’t have much choice in the matter. You are to...
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Civil War in 3D: The Life and Death of the Soldier
Image: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers We are still in the middle of the 150th anniversary of the American Civil War, which ended in May 1865. The fantastic app The Civil War Today, that I covered...
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The Art of Space: Nostalgia Art at Its Best
Image: Zenith Press Retro-futurism, fading into graphical depictions of reality. That’s what The Art of Space: The History of Space Art, From the Earliest Visions to the Graphics of the Modern Era...
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Colonial Comics: New England, 1620-1750
Image: Fulcrum Publishing Having a passion for American history puts a great deal of quality educational materials on my radar. One of my particular passions is teaching and learning about history in...
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‘The World’s Great Wonders’ Explains the Planet’s Masterpieces
Image: Lonely Planet If you’re looking for some fantastic background information on the world’s incredible sites and sights, Lonely Planet has another quality book that will teach you the wheres,...
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