What’s tasty, abundant and high in protein? Bugs! Although less common outside the tropics, entomophagy, the practice of eating bugs, was once extremely widespread throughout cultures. You may feel icky about munching on insects, but they feed about 2 billion people each day (Mmm, fried tarantulas). They also hold promise for food security and the […]
A highly interesting video from CBC Music that explores the connection between the theme song of the original Star Trek series and some of history’s greatest classical music composers. The video start a little slow, but keep on watching, it gets “fascinating” pretty quickly. [CBC Music]
By Eric Smith, excerpted from The Geek’s Guide to Dating. “Being clever’s a fine thing, but sometimes a boy just needs to get out of the house and meet some girls.” Such is the wisdom of Flex Mentallo, wrestler/superhero/metafictional comic book character. He’s advising the angsty teen who not only is Flex’s creator but may […]
You may not know your Gorebyss from your Scizor, but you can read on to find 10 things you didn’t know about Pokémon. [Alltime10s]
From gold bricks to rubber tyres to Star Wars, here are 10 things you should know about Lego. [AllTime10s]
Now you know! [Today I Found Out | Via Neatorama]
The most interesting and informative video you’ll watch today! How much time do you have left? Time makes sense in small pieces. But when you look at huge stretches of time, it’s almost impossible to wrap your head around things. So we teamed up with the awesome blog “Wait but Why” and made this video […]
Nothing says Christmas more than gathering around the tree, hanging stockings, and fangirling! This holiday season the fangirls are bringing you their own geeky rendition of “Jingle Bells”. HAPPY HOLIDAYS! [Only Leigh]
A British dictionary has chosen “geek” as its word of the year. It comes only a few months after the same dictionary changed its definition of the term to be more of a positive. The verdict comes from the Collins Online Dictionary, which picked it from a shortlist of a dozen terms. It’s a somewhat […]
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays in Klingon: QISmaS botIvjaj ‘ej DIS chu’ botIvjaj And they forgot the Elvish version: Isusarad ‘elir [Mashable | Via Neatorama]