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The 10 Worst Schools in Geekdom

by Susana Polo | 12:34 pm, September 5th, 2012

Many people out there have headed back to school this week, whether they are students, teachers, or loving parents. And if not this week, then they’ve probably been at it long enough to already long for the blissful freedom of summer vacation.

And so, as the fortunate or unfortunate majority who no longer return to those hallowed halls yearly, and instead must assign our own homework, we’d like to highlight some schools where it doesn’t seem like any learning goes on at all, or where half the student body is dead by the end of the first semester.

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Power Grid

10 Kids Who Discovered Horrifying or Adorable Alien Monsters

by Susana Polo | 12:45 pm, June 7th, 2011

We’ve said it before: Super 8 is this summer’s Inception, if only because a lot of its promise lies in the fact that we don’t really know how the plot of the movie is going to go. When we realized that we had to make an Inception Power Grid despite having only the faintest idea what the movie was about, we defaulted to listing great thieves, which ultimately didn’t have much to do with what actually happened in the movie. We recognize that we may wind up, again, slightly off the mark with this Power Grid, which is dedicated to all the little kids out there that managed to befriend the gamut of alien races and improbably survive because audiences don’t much like watching little kids succumbing to the true horrors of alien related deaths in science fiction.

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Highlights From K.A. Applegate’s Reddit AMA

by Susana Polo | 11:44 am, April 29th, 2011

 

One of the things we love about the Reddit community is it’s AMAs, or IAmAs, standing respectively for Ask Me Anything, and I Am A (meaning, I am a ______, ask me anything). My personal favorite IAmAs have been hosted by, to name a few, a person who was born blind, a woman inviting guys to ask all the questions about women they were afraid to ask the women they actually knew, and an IAmA African American Woman, AMA About My Hair (in which the highest upvoted comment was from the white dad of a biracial toddler, asking for tips on how to help his daughter style her hair).

But in addition to the AMA’s where you learn about the day to day experiences of someone who you might not otherwise ever get a chance to understand, celebrities (or, at least, celebrities on Reddit) occasionally stop by to do their own, verified AMAs. Yesterday I was super, super excited to find out that none other than K.A. Applegate, the creator of the Animorphs series, had opened up a verified AMA thread. If you’ve ever wanted to find out that one of your childhood heroes is actually a totally awesome person, venture on.

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