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Tag: Hanukkah

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Radio Free Hipster Ep. 39: Sore Afraid

December 14, 2016Z

Jingle along with a brand new episode of Radio Free Hipster: now with 100% more David Hasselhoff.

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Stack Overflow: Winter Wonderland

November 21, 2016Jonathan H. Liu

Today: a big stack of books about winter. Many of them are just about winter or snow, but there are a few about Christmas and one about Hanukkah, too.

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Best Audiobooks for Family Road Trips: Holiday Edition

December 12, 2015Jackie Reeve2

It’s that time of year when families gather for merriment and togetherness. Here’s a list of some holiday-appropriate audiobooks to enjoy with the whole family.

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Build the Manischewitz® Chanukah House and Win Up to $2,000

December 9, 2014Rory Bristol

Join a giveaway and a design contest, both featuring a Manischewitz® Chanukah House kit!

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10 Winter Holiday Movies to Add to Your Family’s Tradition

December 14, 2013September 28, 2020Matt Blum10

Everybody knows the classic winter holiday movies, and most of them are fine, but they can get a bit repetitive. Here are some alternatives that probably weren’t on your family’s list… possibly with good reason.

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Geek Up Your Holiday Cards This Year

November 17, 2013Kelly Knox2

Your love of all things geeky goes strong all year long, so why not geek up your holidays as well?

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Candle Quest Is a Family Game for Hanukkah

December 19, 2012December 13, 2017Jonathan H. Liu

Hanukkah may be over this year, but there’s still time to kickstart this family-friendly board game about collecting candles for your menorah. Buy, sell, or auction candles, but watch out for the unlit ones! Candle Quest is a light strategy …

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Geek Celebrates Hanukkah With Science: Day Eight

December 27, 2011December 13, 2017GeekMom1

It’s been another wonderful science-driven holiday season! We’ve experimented with balloons that blast-off, nearly unsinkable dinghies, delicious math candies, stackable liquids, desiccated dancers, split light, and put a minature Jaques Cousteau in a bottle. Tonight we’re going to give Hanukkah a fine send-off with another trick of the light.   I got the idea for […]

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Geek Celebrates Hanukkah With Science: Day Seven

December 26, 2011December 13, 2017GeekMom

Of all the science experiments we’ve done for Hanukkah this year, and last year, this one is probably the easiest to set up and demonstrate. It also turns into a very satisfying toy. The Cartesian Diver (named after René Descartes) is not only easy to build and fun to play with, it also opens the […]

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Geek Celebrates Hanukkah With Science: Day Six

December 25, 2011December 13, 2017GeekMom

It’s the most wonderful time of the year – for science! If you haven’t been following along with my family this Hanukkah, you’ve got some catching up to do. We’ve already launched a rocket, sank a few boats, transformed math into a form of dessert, poured some stripes in a jar, and danced with the […]

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Geek Celebrates Hanukkah With Science: Day Five

December 24, 2011December 13, 2017GeekMom

It’s Hanukkah, and in my house that means it’s time to celebrate with science! Tonight, we poured some bubbly and drowned our…raisins. Well, we tried to drown them, but raisins are surprisingly good swimmers. In the video above, my five-year-old explains how “The Raisin Lifting Experiment” works, but even after the experiment was finished and […]

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Geek Celebrates Hanukkah With Science: Day Four

December 23, 2011December 13, 2017GeekMom2

This year, as in years past, my family is celebrating Hanukkah with a series of science experiments. We launched under pressure on the first night of Hanukkah. On the second night, we triumphed over buoyancy. Last night, we ate mathematics for dessert. Tonight, we’re hosting a mixer. Or not. The Layered Liquids experiment has more […]

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Geek Celebrates Hanukkah With Science: Day Three

December 22, 2011December 13, 2017GeekMom

Unconventional holiday traditions are fun for the whole family! So far this year, my family has celebrated Hanukkah by launching rockets indoors and constructing small boats in order to sink them. Today we’re delving deeper, into the very language of science. That’s right; it’s math time. Roger Bacon said, “Mathematics is the gate and key […]

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Geek Celebrates Hanukkah With Science: Day Two

December 21, 2011December 13, 2017GeekMom

Hanukkah is the festival of lights, and in my family, we celebrate with illuminating science experiments. Yesterday, we launched a balloon rocket, and today we’re sinking ships. Well, tin foil boats, actually, but this small experiment holds greater drama than you might expect. We thought it would be a simple to float and then sink […]

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Geek Celebrates Hanukkah With Science: Day 1

December 20, 2011Admin

Every year, my family celebrates the eight days of Hanukkah with eight fun experiments. We’re at it again this year, starting with a balloon rocket experiment. [Come join Kay Holt for eight nights of science, with how-to instructions, for the …

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Geek Celebrates Hanukkah With Science: Day One

December 20, 2011December 16, 2017GeekMom1

Every year, my family celebrates the eight days of Hanukkah with eight fun experiments. We’re at it again this year, starting with a balloon rocket experiment. It’s an easy, playful way to demonstrate Newton’s third law of motion. It’s also a good bridge to talking about air pressure, thrust, velocity, and a gateway to a […]

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Lemony Snicket’s The Latke Who Couldn’t Stop Screaming (GeekDad Wayback Machine)

December 10, 2011Matt Blum

The Latke Who Couldn’t Stop Screaming: A Christmas Story is, hands-down, the funniest holiday book I’ve ever read. The fact that it also manages to tell the story of Hanukkah in a kid-friendly way and get across a message of …

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The Night Before Christmas and More Classic Holiday Tales from Scholastic Storybook Treasures

December 10, 2011GeekMom

I love the holiday season, especially now that my daughter is old enough to start to understand what is going on with the holidays. We celebrate Christmas, but I’d like her to know that there are other holidays that people celebrate during this time of year. The Night Before Christmas DVD set from Scholastic Storybook Treasures […]

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Judy’s Library Corner: Eight Wild Nights

December 2, 2010Judy Berna

Okay, I’m back again. The crazy library lady. But this time I have a holiday relevant book for you. It came across the desk at work this week and I just had to snatch it up and share it with you.  It’s called Eight Wild Nights, by Brian P. Cleary. I’ll tell you up front, […]

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Geek Celebrates with Eight Experiments for Hanukkah

December 1, 2010December 16, 2017GeekMom1

Our family celebrates the holidays with science! For each night of Hanukkah, we do a different experiment. This year, we used two fabulous books for inspiration: The Book of Totally Irresponsible Science: 64 Daring Experiments for Young Scientists and The Book of Potentially Catastrophic Science: 50 Experiments for Daring Young Scientists. The experiments we picked […]

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Advent Conspiracy: a Different Approach to the Holidays

November 18, 2009Jonathan H. Liu

Remember Matt Blum’s lament, Why I Hate Christmas, from last year? It drew a fair number of comments from both non-Christians and Christians who share his view: that Christmas is an over-marketed commercialized mess, and is often highly annoying even …

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