Rob Deakin is a Lego fan and incredibly passionate about supporting children with developmental issues through organized Lego play. Rob has seen first hand the powerful benefits of Lego for children with Autism and Asperger’s in helping them to communicate, learn to play and develop social skills. There is increasing ...

A teen center called The Game Loft that teaches Dungeons & Dragons as a path towards leadership, socialization and community service needs the help of the geek community. In tiny Belfast, Maine, you’ll find this unique after-school program for middle and high school kids in the attic of a game ...

Forget your gun, your sword, your axe, and even your chainsaw. One on one, these are suitable weapons against a slow or fast zombie, but when you’ve got dozens, maybe even hundreds of zombies coming your way, you better run! Pause to fire off a round or take a swing ...

Today, the eminent physicist Dr. Stephen Hawking is 70 years old. Dr. Hawking has numerous scientific achievements, making him a household name and a modern icon of the term “genius.” From Dr. Hawking’s website: Stephen Hawking has worked on the basic laws which govern the universe. With Roger Penrose he ...

Before Gomez and Morticia snapped their fingers, before Thing fetched the mail, before anyone was “altogether ooky,” Charles “Chas” Addams created the Addams Family and other strange characters in his many cartoons. Over a nearly 60-year career, Addams drew more than 1,300 cartoons, most (if not all) with great creativity ...

Today marks the 71st birthday of legendary animator and director Hayao Miyazaki. Sometimes referred to as “Japan’s Walt Disney,” Miyazaki is responsible for some of the best animated films of the last 30 years, including (but certainly not limited to) My Neighbor Totoro, Princess Mononoke, Ponyo, and the brilliant Spirited ...

Today is Sir Isaac Newton’s birthday (on the Gregorian-adjusted calendar). In addition to laying out the Laws of Motion, he also did innovative work on the properties of light, as can be seen in this Lego re-enactment. And of course the logo for Apple, Inc. would only have half the ...

On April 21st, 2007, Reid Stowe and Soanya Ahmad left land and embarked on an incredible voyage. Dubbed the Mars Ocean Odyssey, it was not a trip to the fourth planet from the sun, but an inspiring journey to test the limits of man in harsh conditions, stuck on a ...

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, the father of modern fantasy writing, was born January 3, 1892 in what is now South Africa. Best known, of course, for his works The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion, Tolkien served in the British Army in World War I and was ...

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