When I was a kid, we learned about five or six different dinosaurs, with coloring pages and songs (“Triceratops with three long horns, a beak for a mouth and a frill where his neck is. Triceratops with four big legs …
Continue ReadingLast year the Princeton University Press published a curious volume entitled The Princeton Field Guide to Dinosaurs, written and illustrated by Gregory Paul. Paul is a renowned dinosaur expert who has appeared in many publications and served as a consultant …
Continue ReadingToday kicks off GeekDad’s week-long event sponsored by our friends at 604 Republic. In anticipation of the return of spring, we’ve joined forces to help you, faithful reader, stock up on t-shirts for the warm(er) weather ahead. Up for grabs …
Continue ReadingImage via Wikipedia Paleontologists recently unearthed bones, likely in Montana or Wyoming, of a new dinosaur species dubbed Stochastisaurus. “Based on surrounding species and the fossils themselves, there’s an approximately 88% chance that Stochastisaurus was an herbivore,” says the lead …
Continue ReadingIf your children are anything like mine, they get way too many toys for Christmas and birthdays. Their closets and shelves are bursting with items that they rarely play with or have forgotten in the chaos. Their GeekDad and I decided that rather then make wish lists for more toys that they don’t need, we […]
Continue ReadingIf you ever find yourself in Portland, Oregon, the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (OMSI) is a great spot to take the kids. I took the geeklings while we were there for spring break. I’d mentioned it as a …
Continue ReadingMy son and I are walking through a dark, jungle, all by ourselves. There’s little sound, other than our footsteps. I stop, having lost track of my son when – all of a sudden – a terrible roar lets loose …
Continue ReadingThe American Museum of Natural History has put out an app that lets you peruse dinosaur images and information, almost as if you were at the museum itself. And it’s free! You could spend hours studying the interesting images in …
Continue ReadingDon’t you ever wish you could combine the head of a Triceratops, the body of a Tyrannosaurus Rex, and the spiky tail of a Stegosaurus? (No? Okay, maybe it’s just me.) Now you can, without all the cutting and stitching …
Continue ReadingSaved from its own extinction event by Jetta Company Ltd, Pleo is on the way back. Jetta Company was the original manufacturer of the Pleo for Ugobe so it seems fitting that they bought up the intellectual property at bankruptcy …
Continue ReadingProteins are one of the essential building blocks of life – think of them as the skilled, manual labour in your body carrying out all essential tasks necessary to keep you functioning. These workers are found all across nature and …
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