The Internet is such a big and wonderful place, it is easy for some cool things to slip by unnoticed. My Google+ feed recently excavated a great infographic from Flowtown depicting the evolution of Geeks, something GeekDad missed the first time around: “When one hears the word ‘geek’, images are conjured ...

Pokemon fever has hit our household, as it can in even the best of families. For those readers who have been in solitary confinement for the last decade, Pokemon is a collectible card game with hundreds of little creatures that “evolve” from one bodily ...

Do your kids love science? Do they love art? Are they creative? Get them involved with Charlie’s Playhouse Evolution and Art Contest. They choose a creature, change its environment and figure out what would happen with the evolution of that creature in its new environment. Visit Charlie’s Playhouse’s website for ...

Those of you who are fans of That Mitchell and Webb Look will probably have seen this sketch about a manager who shoots members of staff when he hears them use poor grammar (apologies for the awful quality): Funny stuff, but this sketch raises an important point: the general decline ...

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 ...

I just watched the documentary “The Evolution of Dad” and found it to provide a refreshing take on issues of work/family balance, parenting in a world of a gender equal workplace, definitions of masculinity as it relates to fatherhood, the US work ethic and its effect on families, letting men ...

Daniel Loxton’s Evolution: How We and All Living Things Came to Be (Kids Can Press, 2010) is the best overview of evolution for children of which I’m aware.  There have been other recent kids’ books on Darwin, motivated by last year’s 150th anniversary of Origin of the Species.  Instead of ...

We homeschoolers often get a bum rap for trying to insulate our kids from evolutionary theory. But it’s just as likely that your public school student has never heard of the subject. In fact, “about one-third of biology teachers support the teaching of creationism or intelligent design,” according to ...

As you probably already know, Abraham Lincoln was born on this date in 1809. But that’s not all: also born on that day, in that same year, was the father of evolution himself, Charles Darwin. In honor of that fact, February 12th is International Darwin Day: a day to celebrate the ...

Today’s post is really a beginning. I’m a neurohacker at heart and by profession. I design behavioral software. That means I create media designed to “install” beliefs and behaviors into people just like you would install a new app onto your computer. I enjoy it. I’m good at it. And ...