The Hub

http://www.neatorama.com/2012/06/23/the-dalek-and-tardis-quilt/

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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 at 12:01 a.m. Eastern time you’ll see a new puzzle, and the previous day’s answer (in invisitext) posted here.

SPOILER WARNING:
We leave the comments on so people can work together to find the answer. As such, if you want to figure it out all by yourself, DON’T READ THE COMMENTS!

Also, with the knowledge that because others may publish their answers before you do, if you want to be able to search for information without accidentally seeing the answer somewhere, you can use the Google-a-Day site’s search tool, which will automatically filter out published answers, to give you a spoiler-free experience.

And now, without further ado, we give you…

TODAY’S PUZZLE:

What was used to power the 1790s version of the burred instrument a dentist uses to treat your cavity?

YESTERDAY’S ANSWER (mouseover to see):

Search [Europe’s largest ice cap] to find that it is Vatnajokull in Iceland. Search [volcano beneath Vatnajokull] to learn that Grimsvotn volcano, Iceland’s most active volcano, is beneath Vatnajokull.

http://www.neatorama.com/2012/06/22/lego-steampunk-star-wars-spacecraft/

http://www.engadget.com/2012/06/22/steam-for-schools-helps-teachers-create-educational-portal-levels/

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 at 12:01 a.m. Eastern time you’ll see a new puzzle, and the previous day’s answer (in invisitext) posted here.

SPOILER WARNING:
We leave the comments on so people can work together to find the answer. As such, if you want to figure it out all by yourself, DON’T READ THE COMMENTS!

Also, with the knowledge that because others may publish their answers before you do, if you want to be able to search for information without accidentally seeing the answer somewhere, you can use the Google-a-Day site’s search tool, which will automatically filter out published answers, to give you a spoiler-free experience.

And now, without further ado, we give you…

TODAY’S PUZZLE:

What active volcano sits beneath Europe’s largest ice cap?

YESTERDAY’S ANSWER (mouseover to see):

Search [best conductor heat electricity] to learn that this is silver. Search [silver water] to find that silver has been used to sterilize water since the fifth century B.C.

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The GeekDad Community

We get quite a few people asking if they can write for GeekDad. I think they assume it’s some fancy, high-paying gig, with masseuses and a nice dining room, like Google.

It isn’t.

GeekDad is a bunch of dads and moms around the world who are geeks, and parents, and like to blog about the stuff that interests them. There can be a (very) little money in it, but mostly it’s done for the fun of it. There is some measure of exposure (we are on Wired.com after all), and we all get a bit of attention from the PR folks, but really, we’re here for the love of it.

We don’t want pros. We want real people, who want to write about their geeky interests and their families. And the GeekDad Community is how we intend to find you.

Want to write for GeekDad? Write at the GeekDad Community. Write blog posts, and add projects, and pictures, and video. Contribute to the forums. Become an active member of the Community, and we’ll notice. We’ll feature your posts there. We’ll promote them to GeekDad.com. And perhaps we’ll invite you to become a regular contributor. But we need to see the fire in your eyes (or keystrokes, as it were) first.

Start by reading the guidelines, and get a feel for how to post. There’s a certain look and feel to a GeekDad post, and if you can show an understanding of it early on, you’ve got a leg up. Then start writing. Make yourself at home. Be one of us, and hopefully then, you can be one of us.

And before you click away, assuming that it can never be you, let me tell you this one story: In early 2007, I found a blog called GeekDad, that really fit who I was. Its editor, Chris Anderson, put out a call for new writers. I was (and am still) a full time engineer, who wrote Star Trek fanfic as a hobby. I applied, and was accepted. And then I wrote, and wrote, and wrote. Being a geeky parent was my passion, and I expressed it. And as a result, Chris asked me to become Editor of GeekDad.

Anything is possible.

Image by Randall Munroe

As is his wont, Randall Munroe has once again produced an amazing visual representation of some bit of science or nature that puts things into awesome perspective. This time, it’s a rather beautiful graphic showing the relative estimated sizes of the 768 currently-known planets in the universe. Did you know we’d found that many? I didn’t. Go see the original, and give Randall some clicks.

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 at 12:01 a.m. Eastern time you’ll see a new puzzle, and the previous day’s answer (in invisitext) posted here.

SPOILER WARNING:
We leave the comments on so people can work together to find the answer. As such, if you want to figure it out all by yourself, DON’T READ THE COMMENTS!

Also, with the knowledge that because others may publish their answers before you do, if you want to be able to search for information without accidentally seeing the answer somewhere, you can use the Google-a-Day site’s search tool, which will automatically filter out published answers, to give you a spoiler-free experience.

And now, without further ado, we give you…

TODAY’S PUZZLE:

What does the best conductor of heat and electricity do to water?

YESTERDAY’S ANSWER (mouseover to see):

Search [immortal animal] to find, Turritopsis nutricula, a type of hydrozoan jellyfish. Search [Turritopsis nutricula native region] to learn that it’s native to the Caribbean.