Monthly Archive:: May 2021
May 31 2021
Strangers Share Their Lives in Beautiful Stories From Anonymous People
We face many challenges in the world, and these challenges treat every single human being differently. Whether they be positive or negative, unique personal experiences are compelling to others—we want to hear people’s stories, and it doesn’t matter whether it’s the most mundane…
May 30 2021
This Week in Geek (5/31/21–6/6/21)
Welcome to This Week in Geek, your guide to events of interest to the Minnesota geek community for the week of Monday, May 31, to Sunday, June 6.
Please note: Due to risks from the global COVID-19 pandemic, and in following current health guidelines recommending both social distancing and limited travel,…
May 29 2021
Quantifying Our Hunches: A Review of Two Recent COVID Articles
Last spring, as scientists rushed to understand a novel virus and describe the disease it causes, I wrote reviews of several key articles in scientific journals (the first review being here and the second being here), in hopes that it would help us nerds make sensible decisions to protect ourselves.…
May 23 2021
This Week in Geek (5/24/21–5/30/21)
Welcome to This Week in Geek, your guide to events of interest to the Minnesota geek community for the week of Monday, May 24, to Sunday, May 30.
Please note: Due to risks from the global COVID-19 pandemic, and in following current health guidelines recommending both social distancing and limited travel,…
May 21 2021
5 Sources for Tea Steeped in Geekiness
Tea is my caffeine source of preference, and, as with everything, I love finding the nerdy fun in it. Wonderfully, tea has been increasing in popularity in the US for a few decades, and as our discerning tea palates have grown, finding quality blends of looseleaf teas has become easier and easier. Additionally,…
May 20 2021
The Books for Hope Auction Raises over $50,000 for COVID-19 Relief in India
In the face of a horrific and worsening COVID-19 surge in India, several authors who describe themselves as “US-based children’s book authors with roots in the Indian subcontinent” worked together to launch an auction called Books for Hope to raise money for UNICEF’s pandemic response in the…
May 19 2021
The Woman in the Window Is a Foggy Story with Some Transparent Problems
Extensively detailing the many ways in which The Woman in the Window is a sorry attempt at a Hitchcock imitation would likely be almost as tedious as the movie itself, so let me cut to the chase. If you’re looking for an engaging twist on Rear Window, keep looking. If you’re still curious about how director…
May 18 2021
Those Who Wish Me Dead Is a Flash-in-the-Pan Thriller
Those Who Wish Me Dead is the type of action thriller that most likely was sold on one scene. Just picturing Angelina Jolie in a movie where she gets to play a bruised-arm action hero fending off assassins from murdering a boy while doing battle in a flaming forest is just too tantalizing a sight to pass up.…
May 17 2021
Positive Asian Representation in Comics Matters
May is Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, established to recognize the contributions and influence of Asian Americans and Pacific Islander Americans to the history, culture, and achievements of the United States. We first recognized the occasion in 1978.
Over the years, this has…
May 16 2021
The Body-Science Adventures Continue in Cells at Work! Code Black
Let me tell you: I never thought I could cry so much over cells dying.
For a homeschooling parent wanting to create the next generation of otaku, this is the show that helps fuel my kids’ learning and my own—though Code Black is very graphic, so if you do intend to show your children, make sure to watch…