So I’m in the car and my two sons, Steve and Trey, are in the back seat. “The Federated States of Micronesia are actually 607 small...

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

Revisiting the work of physicist Jeremy England, we’re reminded that his new theory posits that the conflict between entropy (the idea...

Cynthia was not the only one who loved John deeply and was hopeful of intimacy with him. Brian Epstein felt pretty much the same way....

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...

It is natural, I think my Gentle Reader will agree, for any dad to want to be his kids’ hero. And, of course, when dad is a nerd, he has...

She came out of nowhere, looking like Wednesday Addams and a voice like Barbra Streisand and Tori Amos had a baby. Streisand, because...

Without apology... Fire alarms should just play Nickelback. I left some Nickelback tickets on my dashboard. When I got back to my car,...

So, we’ve looked at how nerds are defined and seen by others. But what, in the mind of the nerds themselves, are the distinctions? How do...

He is first-generation grunge, from the trio that defined the genre. He was born in the Sixties, an age he still inhabits daily in his...

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...

Robert Christgau, still the reigning dean of rock music critics, took sufficient notice of Lady Gaga to reposition her in the context of...

If truce is to be had between any two generations at odds, it surely favors the Boomers and the Millennials. The Boomers stood no chance,...

Popular music reflects, for better or worse, the culture it services, at any given point in time. That’s as true in the new millennium as...

It’s now the summer of 2022, and the generations roll onward. The Millennials are slowly beginning to middle-age, and Gen Z is beginning...

I came of age in the Seventies – and given my family background, there could not have been a more perfect time for it, where my musical...

We've noted that each of the three songwriting Beatles wrote songs to the women in their lives – songs that were explicitly biographical,...

Pattie Boyd Harrison Clapton – possibly the most written-about woman in all of rock. As recorded above, Pattie became the third Beatle...

Rubber Soul is widely regarded as a transitional album for the Beatles. Released in December 1965, it represents the beginning of the...