There are all kinds of nerds — book nerds, computer nerds, history nerds, science nerds, space nerds, sci-fi nerds, math nerds, even just plain nerd nerds — and the land of the literary has room for ...

Ok nerds. We know you’re descending on Kansas City this weekend for the epic Planet Comicon conference featuring science fiction celebrities like William Shatner, Sylvester McCoy and almost the entire ...

A geek is not a nerd. And vice versa. Unless, of course, they are. A portrait of the author as a young nerd When I was a kid, I wore thick black glasses, long pants that were too short with formal ...

Video games and book nerds don’t seem to go together. When most people (who don’t play video games) think video games, they tend to think of mindless button mashing, lots of pointless slaughter, and, ...

"The Nerdist Way: How to Reach the Next Level (In Real Life)" (Berkley), by Chris Hardwick: There are nerds. And then there are Nerdists. Chris Hardwick is here to help the former transition to the ...

Among the courses I teach at Milwaukee School of Engineering is speech. It's a class of mostly freshmen, but by the spring term they are college veterans, used to the pace and structure of university ...

The phrase “Nerd Sex Symbols” usually refers to one of two things: Smart celebrities who get the pulse racing; or sci-fi characters and superheroes who inspire NSFW fan-fiction and beaucoup cosplay ...

If you can believe it, there was a time when the word "nerd" was not very well known. And if you did know what a nerd was, you probably were a nerd yourself, because this title was only ascribed to ...

Adorably dorky dudes — think J.D. on Scrubs or Leonard from The Big Bang Theory — have long been underestimated. These sweet, smart and often devastatingly funny guys could be sitting on the sidelines ...

I suppose we can all agree that being human is definitely complex, so much so that at times we all wish for simplicity. And being that simplicity is a hot commodity in a world made up of complicated ...

According to one evolutionary biologist, the modern family might look very different had some scrawny male hominids not found a clever workaround to having to physically compete against strong alpha ...

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — If you're not a football nerd, whatever they want to call Saturday's final Red-White practice will just be a chance to cheer. Whether it's going to be a game or not, there won't a ...