Top Ten Spelling Bee Freakouts

We'll applaud their achievements while we witness what we really came for: Children who journey closer to a breaking point with each letter they frantically scrawl onto their arms with invisible finger ink.

Third Grader Wins Doodle 4 Google Contest

Nine-year-old Makenzie Melton from El Dorado Springs, Missouri, was chosen as the national winner of this year’s Doodle 4 Google contest, which of course, means her winning doodle is now featured on Google.com.

It’s Google Doodle Time: Our Geeky Favorites

I just can’t get enough of these.

Raising a Nerdy Child: iPhone Games

(This is part 2 of an irregular series about my attempts to turn my daughter into a complete dork.)

Raising a Nerdy Child: A Catalog of Artifacts, Part One

I will love my daughter whatever and whoever she becomes. But yeah, I’m not going to lie to you, it would be cool if she turned out nerdy like her dad. Sadly, neuroscience has not progressed to the point where I can literally force Lily, through a nightmarish barrage of drugs, neurosurgery and post-hypnotic commands, [...]