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2 months ago | 
geekmom.com | Melanie Meadors |Ariane Coffin |Sarah Pinault |Patricia Vollmer
“Science Adventures” are short informational articles you can share with your kids! Read them aloud, look up words your kids don’t know, and dig deeper on topics that spark their interest at your local library or the internet. Today we’re learning about snowflakes!Today was an awfully snowy day where I live, and it made me think about snow itself. What makes snow…well, snow? Why do snowflakes look the way they do? What is snow? Snow is frozen water.
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Dec 7, 2024 | 
geekmom.com | Lisa Tate |Corrina Lawson |Melanie Meadors
It’s the beginning of the Christmas and holiday season, bringing with it all those magical winter holiday specials. Yet, somehow, this movie, Hot Frosty, debuted at Number One on the Netflix lists last week starring Lacey Chabert and Dusty Milligan:Now, obviously this is a spoof of the Hallmark-y Christmas rom-com, but somehow, I am not sure I’m ready for sexy snow people.
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Nov 25, 2024 | 
geekmom.com | Jenny Bristol |Melanie Meadors
Whether you’re curled up in your favorite armchair with a hot beverage, favorite furry pet, and your new favorite book, or are just there in your imagination, cold weather brings forth habits of coziness and inward study. This season, consider a book as a present—for yourself or for others—sharing the gift of learning, escape, or just pure enjoyment in a convenient and satisfying package. Here are some of the GeekFamily’s favorites this year.
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Nov 14, 2024 | 
geekmom.com | Melanie Meadors |Sarah Pinault |Sophie Brown |Corrina Lawson
Dragons love two things: Sleeping on huge piles of treasure, and eating delicious treats… Especially cupcakes! Frosted… Chocolate… Cupcakes…I love a fun game that I can play with my family, and I love it all the more if there is cute artwork. Cupcake Dragon is exactly that sort of game, where players compete to see who can entice a dragon to come live in and protect their village.
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Sep 22, 2024 | 
geekmom.com | Lisa Tate |Sarah Pinault |Melanie Meadors |Christi Pedigo
When The Weeknd debuted his “The Weeknd: After Hours Nightmare” haunted house at Halloween Horror Nights in 2022, my oldest and I had a pipe dream that rapper, singer, choreographer, and entrepreneur Jackson Wang would do a house based on his album Magic Man. Of course, we knew that would never happen.
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Aug 29, 2024 | 
geekmom.com | Elizabeth MacAndrew |Melanie Meadors |Dakster Sullivan
Sometimes the social media algorithms bring you things that are way off, and sometimes they seem to know exactly what they’re doing. They really hit a win when the Valari pillow for gamers started to show up on my Facebook feed. The Valari is advertised as a pillow for console gamers that helps you sit at a much better angle to help reduce the sort of aches and pains that can come from extended gaming sessions.
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Aug 27, 2024 | 
geekmom.com | Melanie Meadors |Elizabeth MacAndrew |Dakster Sullivan |Ariane Coffin
Do neighborly galaxies, those with lots of other galaxies around them, have any differences from those who are a bit more isolated? Sometimes scientists have ideas for things they’d like to research, but the technology available just isn’t enough to allow for a robust and accurate study. For example, astrophysicists have been wondering what the correlation between galaxy size and galaxy environment is—or if there is one at all.
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Aug 20, 2024 | 
geekmom.com | Melanie Meadors |Jenny Bristol |Karen Walsh |Sophie Brown
If Microraptor’s four wings were so useful, why don’t birds today have them? Let’s explore some evolution. Last week after I led a class for kids about the dinosaur Microraptor, an adult came up to me and asked, “Did you go to school for this?” I answered, “Yes.” I get asked this from time to time, especially when I touch on topics about life, the universe, and everything (see Douglas Adams).
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Aug 6, 2024 | 
geekmom.com | Melanie Meadors
For years I traipsed through the forests of New England and saw these spherical brown and green things on the ground. I assumed they were some sort of fungus, but never really went further than that with my inquiry. Recently, however, I decided it was time for me to solve this forest mystery. The answer surprised me. These weren’t fungi at all, but were oak apple galls, and their story is quite interesting. The forest is full of parasites.
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Jul 14, 2024 | 
geekmom.com | Melanie Meadors |Sophie Brown
A common question historical reenactors hear this time of year is, “Don’t you get hot in all those clothes?” While, yes, people two hundred years ago did wear more clothing and layers than we do today, and, yes, anyone would get hot in 95 degrees F, there is a reason people who wear historical dress usually answer, “No.” It lies in the materials from which their clothing is made. Clothing prior to the twentieth century was made from natural fibers like flax, linen, cotton, wool, and silk.
