Radio Free Hipster Ep. 39: Sore Afraid
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Tag: Hanukkah
Stack Overflow: Winter Wonderland
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
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
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
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.
Continue ReadingGeek Up Your Holiday Cards This Year
Your love of all things geeky goes strong all year long, so why not geek up your holidays as well?
Continue ReadingCandle Quest Is a Family Game for Hanukkah
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 …
Continue ReadingGeek Celebrates Hanukkah With Science: Day Eight
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 […]
Continue ReadingGeek Celebrates Hanukkah With Science: Day Seven
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 […]
Continue ReadingGeek Celebrates Hanukkah With Science: Day Six
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 […]
Continue ReadingGeek Celebrates Hanukkah With Science: Day Five
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 […]
Continue ReadingGeek Celebrates Hanukkah With Science: Day Four
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 […]
Continue ReadingGeek Celebrates Hanukkah With Science: Day Three
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 […]
Continue ReadingGeek Celebrates Hanukkah With Science: Day Two
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 […]
Continue ReadingGeek Celebrates Hanukkah With Science: Day 1
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 …
Continue ReadingGeek Celebrates Hanukkah With Science: Day One
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 […]
Continue ReadingLemony Snicket’s The Latke Who Couldn’t Stop Screaming (GeekDad Wayback Machine)
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 …
Continue ReadingThe Night Before Christmas and More Classic Holiday Tales from Scholastic Storybook Treasures
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 […]
Continue ReadingJudy’s Library Corner: Eight Wild Nights
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, […]
Continue ReadingGeek Celebrates with Eight Experiments for Hanukkah
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 […]
Continue ReadingAdvent Conspiracy: a Different Approach to the Holidays
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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