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Meeple Madness: How I Spent My 2016 International Tabletop Day
Meeple Madness retail location during International Tabletop Day 2016. Photo Credit: Preston Burt If you’ve never heard of it, I’ll forgive you. It seems that between Siblings Day, Talk Like a Pirate...
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Visit National Parks for Free This Weekend
White Sands National Monument in New Mexico. Image by Rob Huddleston. The National Park Service officially turns 100 this Thursday, August 25, and in celebration of this, the Park Service is offering...
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What ‘Star Trek’ Means to Us
One of the original shooting models of the USS Enterprise at the Smithsonian Air & Space Museum. Photo by Rob Huddleston. Fifty years ago today–September 8, 1966–the starship Enterprise began its...
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‘Leave it to Chance’ 20th Anniversary Slips By Unnoticed
Before there was a Harry Potter, there was Chance Falconer. Smart, fearless, resourceful, Chance is exactly the girl hero that young readers and their parents are eagerly seeking today, and yet very...
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A Tinker Birthday Party: Making a Simple Alarm System
Image: (c) Bernd Grobauer My son likes making and tinkering, and so do several of his friends. So we decided to have a “Tinker Birthday Party.” Searching for inspiration of what to make together with a...
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Remembering ‘Apollo 1’
The crew of Apollo 1. From left to right, Virgil Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee. Image from Wiki Commons. Fifty years ago, on the afternoon of January 27, 1967, three astronauts climbed into an...
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Happy 20th Anniversary, Buffy
For a lot of us, this may come as a bit of a shock: twenty years ago today, on March 10, 1997, Joss Whedon’s Buffy the Vampire Slayer first premiered on TV. I know, I can’t believe it’s been 20 years,...
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A Tinker Birthday Party: Making a Bristlebot
Image: (c) Bernd Grobauer After the success of our “Tinker Birthday Party” for child one, child two also wanted to tinker together with his friends for his birthday. So we decided to have a “robot...
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What ‘Star Wars’ Means to Me
“Tarkin, don’t you think you ought to DO something about that foul stench? It’s been 40 YEARS.” As part of our celebration of the 40th anniversary of Star Wars, the GeekMoms and GeekDads came together...
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As You Wish: See ‘The Princess Bride’ Again in Theaters
Sometime in October, 1987, I was a high school sophomore, and I took my new girlfriend to see The Princess Bride. I assume I was thinking that it sounded like a nice, romantic movie, and thus a good...
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Share Your Care—Care Bears Parties and Costumes
Care Bears has been around for a while. A whopping 35 years, as a matter of fact! This means that some of their target audience are already grandparents. This makes Care Bears one of the most adorable...
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Experiencing History First-Hand: The Somme and Compiègne
One of the memorials at the Somme battlefield. Image by Rob Huddleston If you ask most Americans why we commemorate Veterans Day on November 11 each year, many probably won’t know. And in case you’re...
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Escape the Mundane With Live Escape Room Adventures
Succeed or fail, live escape rooms are lots of fun. Photo: Andrew Terranova Live escape room adventures have become popular activities for friends, corporate outings, and families too. An escape room...
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Harry Potter Turns 38 Today: Here are 20 “Harry Potter is SO OLD” Jokes to...
Harry Potter (the character, not the book series) turns 38 years old today. We decided he could endure a little light teasing, so we pulled together these “Harry Potter is SO OLD” jokes to roast him...
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Happy 40th Birthday, LEGO Minifigure!
Though we’ve been celebrating this event all year long, today is the actual 40th birthday of the LEGO minifigure! Happy birthday, little articulated guys and gals (and monsters and droids and…)! I’ve...
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‘Evolution: The Video Game’ Celebrates Charles Darwin’s Birthday
If Charles Darwin were alive today, he’d be celebrating his 210th birthday (and probably marveling at his own survival). So it seems fitting that Evolution: The Video Game officially launches today....
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Stack Overflow: 12 Books for Women’s History Month
March is Women’s History Month, and while it’s never a bad time to read about inspiring women, I wanted to devote one of my Stack Overflow columns this month to stories about women. Wilma’s Way Home:...
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Stack Overflow: 9 More Books for Women’s History Month
Following up from last week’s books for Women’s History Month, here are several more stories about women. As always, I find myself with more books to read than I can finish, but here are the ones I’ve...
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12 Things to Know About Coming Out Day
This Pride Flag is also known as the Philadelphia Pride Flag, and it includes brown and black stripes to indicate specific inclusion of people of color. Tomorrow, October 11th, is National Coming Out...
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Happy 60th Anniversary to Etch A Sketch!
60 years ago this month, the Ohio Art Company introduced the world to the Etch A Sketch, a remarkable (and sometimes remarkably frustrating) drawing toy. The concept was simple: one knob moved the...
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