Featured Blog Posts – February 2012 Archive (17)

In which John discusses cooties, cuties, whales, Moby Dick, and fish while visiting an aquarium. He also talks about things that are both fun and hard without making a single that's what she said joke.

Hey, ARE YOU A SPORTSRACER? Ze Frank inspired us to start videoblogging, and in the best news ever, he is bringing his show back:…

Hello fellow nerdfighters in the UK!

I'm an old school nerdfighter who also happens to be a children's book editor here in the UK. John Green hasn't had enough love from British publishers (because they didn’t get the whole Nerdfighter thing) and so he's decided to let his American publisher export his…

Don't tell me, I'll get it...

Quite wonderful!

It's a little faded in scanning, unfortunately, but I can see that is is very detailed!…

In which Hank discusses the extreme dangers of puppies, kittens, puppies cuddling with kittens and our continuing path toward hypercuteness and what it means for our lives and the lives of our children.

If you'd like to keep a couple old friends atop the bestseller list, you can pick up The Fault in Our Stars and/or Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children at your local bookstore or from amazon. TFiOS: http://dft.ba/-tfios Miss Peregrine: http://amzn.to/xuSvdA

Ransom's brilliant YouTube…

The world is full of stereotypes. Look around and you will find them without much help. A popular one that everyone knows about would be the stereotype of "Nerd."

Wikipedia (the unreliable supplier of information that I inexplicably rush to like an antelope to a piranha infested water hole.) describes nerds as thus:



"Nerd is a derogatory slang term for an intellectual but socially-impaired,…

I should write this in the same font color as the background of the site. Hehehe.

You have AMAZING dreams.

You have terrifying dreams... o.o…

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In which Hank talks about the smallest animals in the world in a variety of categorizes, moving from vertebrates to reptiles to amphibians to fish to birds to mammals to primates to dogs to horses to cats.

Featured Animals!

Tiny…

In which John describes some of the things he can do, which do not include sorcery, curling, or dancing. He does talk about the internet, youtube, and (the real) Swindon Town.

Thought Bubble's Kickstarter:…

Follow me on Tumblr! (AGAIN!) http://edwardspoonhands.tumblr.com

Tour de Nerdfighting CD available now: http://dftba.com/product/zp/2012-Tour-De-Nerdfighting-Album

In which Hank explains how and why phycisists think that the univers has no…

Inspired by CGP Grey's Misconception Debunking: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCzXZfNIu3A

In which John debunks various misconceptions involving martyrdom, presidents, near-presidents, keeping track of your age, flightless birds, math, physicists, and the universe.

No Edge:…

Listen Jena, two hundred years ago today, Charles Dickens was born. Nevermind the influence he has had on so many writers: his body of work alone could keep a reader happy and haunted and amused and outraged for years and years. If you’ve got five minutes, read the first few paragraphs of Great Expectations below, and see if you’re not clamoring by the end. You can read the whole…

I love the way this has been done!

Is this pencil and water colours? It looks magnificent!

I am actually rather surprised that you made this yourself. It…

In which Hank sings a bit and then (in a Nyquil-fueled stupor) rambles about...something...I've forgotten already.

An Awful Lot of Running is on Chameleon Circuit's first album, they are both extremely worth owning.
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Wislawa Szymborska, a polish poet and Nobel Prize winner, died yesterday at eighty-eight years old. She was one of the greatest poets I've read, and everyone should benefit from her work. If you read nothing else this week, Jena, read the poem below, and Szymborska's…

From my blog at http://fumafiles.blogspot.com

For most of my childhood, I'd celebrate my birthday with a bowling party at an alley with my cousins and a few friends. However, the summer I turned twelve, my mom let me do something different. That year, just before the start of 7th grade, I got to pick about five friends and we went to see a movie. It was one that I was particularly…

In which John makes a video for future John, future Hank, and future Katherine about what happened at the 2012 Tour de Nerdfighting and how it felt. Thanks to everyone who came out for the tour this year, to all the awesome independent bookstores and theaters that hosted us, and to the nice nerdfighter who held the camera.