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Not-so-sure guys

It’s a few days after Charles Darwin’s 200th birthday, and Rebecca Watson is posted up at the Asgard, a popular bar down the road from MIT, passing out leaflets promoting an upcoming “Skeptics in the Pub” event.
Pseudoscience debunkers and original thinkers unite in their lack of faith
By GEORGIANA COHEN  |  March 18, 2009
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Hand-to-Hand Combat

"So easy to learn, so hard to win." That's how Somerville resident Brian Loring describes the timeless game of rock-paper-scissors.
Rock-paper-scissors is sumo for nerds
By GEORGIANA COHEN  |  January 21, 2009
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Real time savers

Breaking news: scientists have eradicated the social malady known as "watch tan." The cure, of course, was the advent of the cell phone.
Whither wristwatches?
By GEORGIANA COHEN  |  December 17, 2008
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Comics and crafts unite

What differentiates Comicazi-con from this past month's Boston Comic Con, sponsored by Framingham's Bedrock Comics, is the big-tent approach. Comicazi-con won't be focusing solely on comics, but will include local merchants.
Square Deal
By GEORGIANA COHEN  |  December 10, 2008
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Geeky gifts 101

“Smelly Yankee Candle for Grandma? Check. Tie for Dad? Got it. Toy dump truck for Tommy? Yup. Man, this holiday shopping stuff is easy. Now, who’s next? . . . Um. . . Hmmm.”
An introduction to buying things you don’t completely understand
By GEORGIANA COHEN  |  December 08, 2008
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Drawing attention

If you drop by a Cambridge bar this Saturday afternoon and ask the bartender to draw you a pint, be forewarned: the guy on the next stool might take you literally.  
Of pints and pens
By GEORGIANA COHEN  |  October 22, 2008
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Boston boy

For a brief moment recently, Brian Sullivan’s musical career came full circle.
Brian Sullivan is Dylan in the Movies
By GEORGIANA COHEN  |  March 24, 2008
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What is Filk?

Filk’s not so much a genre as a state of being.
The answer, my friend, is blowin’ in the DIURNAL atmospheric DISEQUILIBRIUM
By GEORGIANA COHEN  |  March 20, 2008
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Indie invasion

Green living and government-subsidized health care and education are breeding smart indie-pop acts by the dozen.

Blogs like Swedesplease.net
By GEORGIANA COHEN  |  February 25, 2008
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Free your nerd

When “I’m Too Sexy” comes on, 28-year-old Rachel Marks has a flashback. “Oh my God,” she says. “My bat mitzvah.”
Dancing stupid
By GEORGIANA COHEN  |  February 20, 2008
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Beauty and the geeks

The idea? A shooting gallery where the goal is to hit the ducks — and avoid bagging Dick Cheney’s hunting partner.
I, Dorkbot
By GEORGIANA COHEN  |  February 14, 2008
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Twee time

In the cold climes of maple country, the Smittens are sentimental saps and proud of it. Militant, even.
The warm and fuzzy pop of the Smittens
By GEORGIANA COHEN  |  February 04, 2008
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L_w su_t

For Scrabble fans, there are few bigger dilemmas than how to play a Q without a U.
Hasbro vs. Scrabulous
By GEORGIANA COHEN  |  January 30, 2008
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Electronic spin

Drake has posted a free download-only covers EP.

Jason Drakes stakes his own claim
By GEORGIANA COHEN  |  January 28, 2008
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Public-service announcements

How do you take a Web site and make it come alive?
Chris Marstall brings Tourfilter to life
By GEORGIANA COHEN  |  January 22, 2008
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Friends of John

Most people at the Middle East downstairs on December 15 probably didn’t know John Pike, the 23-year-old drummer of New York’s Ra Ra Riot who drowned on June 1.
Ra Ra Riot head up a benefit for their fallen Drummer
By GEORGIANA COHEN  |  December 26, 2007
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She's crafty

What would Grandma say?
Indie music and the internet have fueled an arts-and-crafts renaissance that would puzzle your grandmother
By GEORGIANA COHEN  |  December 10, 2007
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The wisdom of crowds

Well before the appointed hour, nearly a thousand people had gathered at tiny Reverend Thomas J. Williams Park in North Cambridge, waiting for . . . well, no one really knew.
Comic timing
By GEORGIANA COHEN  |  September 26, 2007

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