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Enjoy Sapient Strategies, Trivia, and Tidbits in Brain Trust
Garth Sundem is a guy whose geek cred should never be called into question. Among his accomplishments, Sundem represented the geek class when he participated in the “Hotties vs. Nerds” episode of the...
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Everything You Thought You Knew About Learning Is Wrong
Unfortunately, learning through book osmosis doesn’t make the learning strategies list. Taking notes during class? Topic-focused study? A consistent learning environment? All are exactly opposite of...
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GeekDad Puzzle of the Week: A Highbrow Mathematics Puzzle
And you tried to tell your high school algebra teacher there's no real-world use for math. Image: Flickr/ab9kt CC License I have two dogs and two kids and all four of them fart. (My wife and I, of...
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GeekDad Puzzle of the Week Solution: A Highbrow Mathematics Puzzle
Kevin's beautifully rendered answer to this week's puzzle In our months and years of puzzling, we’ve written about Christmas lights and coffee, zombies and presidents, but never have I seen the...
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GeekDad Puzzle of the Week: Costa Concordia Conundrum
For a year after college I worked as a cruise ship musician, playing saxophone, flute and clarinet for Carnival and Royal Caribbean cruise lines. And I remember those first couple months, bunking below...
View ArticleStanford Offers Free Game Theory Course
The Prisoner’s Dilemma; Colonel Blotto; the Diner’s Dilemma; the Pirate Game — these are the astoundingly cool and frequently counterintuitive puzzles that have perplexed mankind’s silly little...
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How to Be Happy, Married With Children
Happy family. Image: PD After marriage your well-being dips and after divorce it rises; after childbirth, relationship satisfaction is permanently below its pre-birth level -– so says a meta-analysis...
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GeekDad Puzzle of the Week Answer: Concordia Conundrum
You and yours, sinking. Here's how to survive. Image: Flickr/ChrisFriese cc license. Kimberly Johnson said, “Never ruin an apology with an excuse.” I’m not quite sure who Kimberly Johnson is or was,...
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A Scrabble Champ’s Primer on Crushing Words With Friends
Playability and leave values make a WWF padawan into a jedi. Image: Flickr/hazel.estrada “Here’s the story of the only truly awesome play I’ve ever made,” Jason Katz-Brown told me when I interviewed...
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RPS Rumble Makes Me Want to Kick Puppies (In a Good Way)
I don’t usually review apps, but I make an exception for RPS Rumble, my current diversion and addiction. Dude, it’s rock, paper, scissors — how hard can it be? Thus went my thinking fifteen days ago....
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The 7 Commandments of a Civil Easter Egg Hunt
Following a few simple rules will keep your Easter egg hunt from turning into a disaster.Photo: MDGovpics/Flickr There will be no Easter egg hunt in Colorado Springs’ historic Bancroft Park this year,...
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GeekDad Puzzle of the Week: Easter Attack
Me and cerebrally challenged wünderhund. Right now. As you may have noticed, yesterday was Easter. Our egg hunt was understated: we hid a couple dozen eggs in the field behind our house and set loose...
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How to Fold a World-Record Paper Airplane
Illustration from The World Record Paper Airplane Book by Ken Blackburn and Jeff Lammers. Earning a world record allows paper-plane designers to own football teams and marry Russian oil heiresses. And...
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GeekDad Puzzle of the Week Solution: Easter Wars
Not my dog. Notice the intelligence in her eyes. Image: Flickr/az1172 Despite the cerebrally-challenged wünderhund, we all survived Easter and even the week after. For those of you who missed it, last...
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GeekDad Puzzle of the Week: Sleepless Camping
The fan that blows propane-warmed air in our new, old pop-top camper Kristi and I recently crossed a line that as parents we swore we’d never cross: we purchased a very used, tow-behind pop-top...
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Should You and Yours Multitask in a Multi-Screen World?
I have but two arms, sans tentacles. My wife? Well, that's another story… Image: PD I don’t multitask. Or, I do it so badly that I end up dropping everything in a massive tangle of badness with me...
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