Amazing Star Wars Identities Posters [Pics]

These amazing posters for Le Centre des Sciences de Montreal‘s current featured exhibition, Star Wars Identities, were created by artist Louis C. Hébert from the Bleublancrouge advertising agency. You’ll notice that each portrait featured in the posters are composed of a multitude of small illustrations, which when assembled, create the likeliness of one of the […]

Beautiful: The Hobbit Song by Allie Goertz [Video]

Youtuber Allie Goertz, whom we already featured twice in the past on Geeks are Sexy (here and here,) just sent me this absolutely beautiful song she wrote about the Hobbit entitled, “The Hobbit Song”. Enjoy everyone! Megan Barrett and I sing a song I wrote inspired by J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit. The song starts from […]

Texting Can Help Fix Teen Problems

Nancy Lublin organises a social change website called DoSomething.org, which focuses on enlisting teens to make a difference in the world. When DoSomething changed tactics to start focusing on SMS-based marketing, it unexpectedly started receiving texts from troubled teens reaching out for someone to talk to. She’s setting up a text-only crisis hotline to allow […]

Open Access vs. Paid Access: A Problem Even in the Academic World

Anyone who’s participated in a Google vs. Apple debate (or cat fight) would be quite intimately aware of the open access vs. paid access arguments when it comes to technology. Well it seems Ivy League schools are coming across a similar tension in academic journals. Harvard University writes that they simply cannot continue subscriptions to […]