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About Ken

Ken is a husband and father from the San Francisco Bay Area, where he works as a civil engineer. He also wrote the NYT bestselling book "Geek Dad: Awesomely Geeky Projects for Dads and Kids to Share." Follow @fitzwillie on Twitter.

Video: Sci-Fi Rockers Sing the Praises of Neil deGrasse Tyson

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The GeekDads Podcast Live Tonight 6:00pm/9:00 PDT/EDT (Earlier Time!)

For those of you who enjoy our GeekDads podcast, we’ll broadcast the recording session live tonight. So if you’d like to waste an hour and participate via chat room, stop by right here at 6:00 this evening, Pacific Time — … Continue reading

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Adam Savage Talks About Being a GeekDad

Adam Savage is working on an as-yet untitled video podcast project, and this new episode hits right at the heart of what he calls the “GeekDad Movement.” His attitude towards encouraging his kids’ interests is wonderful, and hopefully infectious for … Continue reading

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The Geek Dad Book For Aspiring Mad Scientists Book Review …

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Happy Father’s Day, GeekDads! – ThinkGeek

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Walt Disney World Wins at Making Magic for One Young Man

Ben and Snow White (image via shmoolok.com) I’m not going to say much about this story other than to encourage you to go read all six parts, as blogged by the dad, Ron Miles. I saw it first on Boing … Continue reading

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A Google-a-Day Puzzle for June 19

Our good friends at Google run a daily puzzle challenge and asked us to help get them out to the geeky masses. Each day’s puzzle will task your googling skills a little more, leading you to Google mastery. Each morning … Continue reading

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I’m On A Spaceship!: Star Trek Themed Home Theater

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GeekDad Day in Photos and Video

The first GeekDad Day ever has come and gone. According to our tally, over 180,000 people in all 50 states and 22 countries around the world took our challenge to step beyond the greeting cards and cheap ties, and turn … Continue reading

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Denver museum visitors enjoy GeekDad day at Nature & Science

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