By now, if you’re a long-time Nerdophiles follower, you’ll know that I’m a huge book nerd. I love books. I read a ridiculous number of them. My GoodReads list for this year’s reading challenge currently sits at 382 books read – and we still have a month to go! I […]
Grimm: The Grimm Who Stole Christmas Recap
Synopsis of 4×07: Christmas goblins are destroying homes all around Portland and only Nick can stop them! For all the crap I’ve given Grimm the past couple of weeks, I really have to give them props for their Christmas episode. It was pretty much everything I could have wanted or expected […]
Holiday Gift Guide 2014: Stocking Stuffers for Scientists
It’s that time of year again – if you’re lucky, you/your friend/family member/lover may finally emerge from hours of time-points, coding, or cell counting in the lab long enough to approximate the functions of a normal human being. Maybe you know someone or have youths who really like science. Maybe […]
Six Years and Counting: Lessons from San Diego Comic-Con
2014 is coming to a swift end and 2015 will be here before we know it. As the new year rolls in, plans for the annual convention, San Diego Comic Con International, will begin in earnest. In recent years, because of SDCC’s growing popularity, those wishing to attend must begin preparing […]
The Allure of Xanth
An on-going series first started in 1977 with A Spell For Chameleon, Xanth is a magical world penned into creation by Piers Anthony. Every person inside of Xanth is required to have a magic talent, even if it is of the spot-on-the-wall (a magic talent that literally is so useless it can […]
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