A geek is not a nerd. And vice versa. Unless, of course, they are. A portrait of the author as a young nerd When I was a kid, I wore thick black glasses, long pants that were too short with formal ...

Geeks—the two of us might fit the profile. Yes we have tendencies to contemplate things that probably shouldn’t be contemplated. We question. We prod. We poke…at everything. And, we’ve been known to ...

We would not want to run our universities like tech companies. The culture, values and norms of academia stand—if anything—in opposition to those of tech. Rather than “move fast and break things,” our ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. The circus performer definition was, indeed, the only one in American Heritage for some time. But now, that definition is No. 2 ...

If the geeks are really set to inherit the earth (that’s the saying, right?), then it’s time we highlight the musical offerings they have on the table. With Jonathan Coulton’s Artificial Heart being ...