Today is December 1st, and those of us Christmas fanatics can joyfully embrace every awesome hallmark of the season without feeling guilty for neglecting Halloween and Thanksgiving. I managed to keep my excitement in hand enough to wait until the day after Thanksgiving to put up my Christmas tree, but that took an inhuman helping of patience (see what I did there?). In honor of the official beginning of the Christmas season, I’ve scoured the internet for suggestions for any geek to add to their Christmas list (for themselves or for someone else) at nearly any price point. Continue reading
Tag Archives: Editorial
Editorial | Does Geek Culture Hold the Answers to National Security?
For this post, I collaborated with Hannah Givens, from Things Matter (which you should totally check out). Our mutual love of international relations shines through everything we do, apparently.
Technological innovation raises some obvious questions. What kind of technology will humans use in the future? How will it work and what will it do for us? How will it change the way we do things? Those questions are, perhaps, at their most controversial in the realm of national security, where technology can kill (or protect) ever-greater numbers of people. Fortunately, geek culture is an oracle of war. Science fiction has been imagining the future for a long time now, and was already providing possible answers before national security experts even understood the questions. Continue reading
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Editorial | Fantasy Books You Should be Reading RIGHT NOW (and some that you shouldn’t)
As a fairly prolific reader, I often get asked for recommendations from people looking to expand their reading list of doom. Over the summer and into the first few weeks of fall, I’ve been catching up on a lot of the books I’ve been meaning to read, and here is my list of the books you should add to your pile right away, as well as a couple that I would recommend avoiding. Continue reading
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Editorial | Bizarre Search Terms that Brought Web Surfers to Therefore I Geek
One cool thing about running a blog—especially a blog that’s been around for a little while—is the opportunity to look at the stuff behind the scenes. Blog hosts have all manner of statistical breakdowns, including search terms that have brought denizens of the internet to the blog. Some of the ones that have wound up in the Therefore I Geek search term log are hilarious. Continue reading
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