80 Million Year Old Dinosaur Proteins Found
Proteins 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...
View ArticleGet Your Dinosaurs and Your DNA Gun and Meet Me Online: Xtractaurs
The premise of Mattel’s new toy + online environment, Xtractaurs, is a bit unlikely: Dinosaurs emerge again and start laying waste to human civilization. Your mission is to strike back — not with, say,...
View ArticleBuild Your Own Dinosaurs With DinoMixer
Don’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...
View ArticleGeekDad Goes to OMSI
If 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...
View ArticleGeekDad Visits the Royal Ontario Museum
Toronto’s Royal Ontario Museum has a fancy sounding name, but will it be fun for a GeekDad and his Geeklets? Yes! The first thing that catches your attention is the museum itself. The Michael Lee-Chin...
View ArticleT-Shirt Addict: Poe, Pi and Pac-Man
Welcome, shirt geeks, to another edition of T-Shirt Addict, where we bring you all that is new and fresh in the world of online clothing. As many of our readers got an early preview of spring this past...
View ArticleDinosaur Tweetup at the American Museum of Natural History NYC
Attention, all dinosaur loving Tweeps in the New York City area. This Thursday, March 3, the American Museum of Natural History is giving a limited number of @AMNH followers a chance to go behind the...
View ArticleSpring T-Shirt Week Day 1: Epic Duel
Today 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...
View ArticleBook Review: The Princeton Field Guide to Dinosaurs
Last 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...
View ArticleThe World’s Largest Dinosaurs Are in New York City
The American Museum of Natural History is opening a new exhibit today called The World’s Largest Dinosaurs that gives visitors a new perspective on the giant sauropod known as Mamenchisaurus. This...
View ArticleWalking With Dinosaurs, Down Under
As Randall Munroe has so eloquently pointed out, our children need to understand the reality of dinosaurs. Over on Boing Boing, Cory Doctorow uncovered a video on YouTube of Australian school children...
View ArticleDinosaurs Walking at Boston’s Museum of Science
Dinosaurs have been a highlight of Boston’s Museum of Science for decades. The Museum’s original Tyrannosaurus Rex model was positioned in the lower level to place its head at your eye level, so it...
View ArticleDK Brings Pop-Up Books to the Webcam
Anyone who’s ever been into the children’s section of a bookstore will be familiar with DK Publishing, which puts out many kid-themed reference books and introductions to various topics. (To be sure,...
View ArticleNintendo’s Other Holiday Offerings
Though I even have to remind myself of this fact, Nintendo’s fourth quarter releases aren’t strictly limited to Zelda and Mario titles. While those games have rightly earned the lion’s share of...
View ArticleAnsel and Clair Apps Branch Out, Lower Price
Following their most excellent iPad app from 2011, Ansel & Clair's Adventures in Africa, Cognitive Kid has now come out with a new iPad app, Ansel and Clair: Cretaceous Dinosaurs, as well as...
View ArticleWhat to Do for Summer Play and a Giveaway!
To celebrate the last remaining days of summer, RoseArt, would like to offer a few GeekDad readers a chance to win a few art kits to keep their geeklets busy
View ArticleThose wonderful toys | Congratulations to the Summer Play and Giveaway Winners!
Congratulations to the winners of our giveaway.Our three prize winners will each receive a RoseArt bundle consisting of 3D Create ‘N’ Color Wooden 3 pack of Dinosaurs as well as a large 3D Create ‘N’...
View ArticleGame on! | Robots, Pirates, Dinosaurs and More Collide in Smash Up
Robots, pirates, dinosaurs, wizards, and more! Pick two factions, smash them together, and then attempt to take over the world. Smash Up ("The Shufflebuilding Game of Total Awesomeness") launched at...
View ArticleWatch This | Doctor Who Recap: “Dinosaurs on a Spaceship”
I have to worry about any episode whose title is such an obvious parody — just to make sure we're on the same page, I'm talking about Snakes on a Plane — since this usually means the story was ...
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