maessive (via Flickr) You may have heard the criticism of the ubiquity of antibacterial products, with scientists saying that it helps antibiotic-resistant bacteria grow and flourish. But there’s new research that indicates that that criticism may not be going far enough when it comes to children: even making your kids ...

Anyone can use their imagination to make up pretend creatures. Kids do it all the time. They bring home a drawing from school to show you with pride, and you smile and say, “Tell me about your wonderful picture!” while having no idea what is depicted therein. Adults create fictional ...

Anyone can use their imagination to make up pretend creatures. Kids do it all the time. They bring home a drawing from school to show you with pride, and you smile and say, “Tell me about your wonderful picture!” while having no idea what is depicted therein. Adults create fictional ...

It’s a dark and blurry but if you look closely you can see that this is a picture of my younger son holding a flashlight while my older son tags a horseshoe crab. The boys were participants two years ago in Sacred Heart University’s Project Limulus, an annual horseshoe-crab census ...

As we do every year, this weekend my family celebrated (Canadian) Thanksgiving, along with the shared birthdays of my boys, Jon and Aidan, and their grandfather. It always makes for a busy weekend and every year -except for last- we’ve spent one day of the long weekend at the Toronto ...

London (Ontario) experienced what may turn out to be the last gasp of summer weather last Thursday, so after my wife was home from work, we piled the kids in the truck and headed for nearby Port Stanley for what was likely our last beach evening of the year. Unfortunately, ...

The North Carolina Science Festival kicks off on September 11th. With hundreds of events scattered across the entire state, there’s something for everyone at the first of its kind festival. One event of particular interest to most GeekDad readers is “An Afternoon with Adam and Jamie.” On September 19th at the ...

Bored with moo, baaa, and oink? Here are some slightly more *exotic* noises guaranteed to thrill the playground and/or terrify your child into immediate behavioral correction. Some practice required.

This week GeekTeen John sent me a link about a just-released computer game called CellCraft. He thought I might want to write about it on GeekDad, because it was fun to play and full of information about what makes up a living cell.  I even tried it out for ...

Recently a couple of college kids who were over for game night were talking about Pokemon, about how they used to know the names of all the Pokemon (at least the first generation, I think). Well, then they just couldn’t start playing board games until they had listed all hundred ...