It’s essential, of course, to think seriously about the challenges your young nerds will face, stacking up against the world’s...

We must stress, from the outset, that to be a nerd is not an entirely learned skill. Nerds occur in nature: Gentoo penguins use D&D-style...

Then again... Could Batman do a credible job of being me? Bear with me, here, I’m perfectly serious: can we ask whether Batman could pass...

Where does the word nerd come from? Believe it or not, we may have good ol’ Dr. Seuss to thank. In his classic If I Ran the Zoo, which we...

In recent months, I’ve started every day with the same ritual: I roll out of bed, fix a cup of coffee, and play Wordle. I was, I think, a...

The washing machine was invented by a man. Nah! you surely scoff, if men had any say in it, clothes wouldn’t get washed at all! Or,...

Fans of a certain age will remember the early Seventies, a singular era when psychedelia had let album-oriented rock into our bedrooms,...

INTERNSHIP AVAILABLE Are you a young man between the ages of 16-18, looking for a work experience that will prepare you for literally...

On the Star Trek spin-off Deep Space 9, there are these two characters – Dr. Julian Bashir and Leeta, the Bajoran dabo girl – who have a...

Star Trek had played huge in my ADHD youth, as detailed above. My first ADHD tribe, the guys at Franklin County High, had all been Trek...

Lindy. She was brainy and beautiful and blonde and thoughtful and introspective and funny and principled and unlike any woman I’d ever...

The new school at which I arrived in the fall of 1976 – Franklin County High in Frankfort, Kentucky – was a completely different...

In October of 1977, I got my first real job. Taking a cue from school friends I bowled with on Saturday mornings, I became a bag boy at...

While all of this is going on, through the late Sixties and early Seventies, another kid exactly the same age as me is having exactly the...

ANY PERSONAL STORY about living with Attention Deficit & Hyperactivity Disorder – ADHD – necessarily begins in the genes. This is because...

Two very significant things happened during these few years at IUS. One was Dr. D, as described above. The second thing is that my home...

During all of my new school fun and engineering adventures – to say nothing of the excitement of parenting two teenagers and a...

Surprisingly, our first revisitation of a popular fanboy debate focuses on a question that really wasn’t asked much back in the first...

I'll confess something here: when the Trek Fanboy Nation rose up as one in the spring of 2020, after the Picard Season One finale (in...

One very popular long-standing fanboy debate – made all the more popular when Battlestar Galactica rebooted in 2004 – is whether the...