Ken Denmead - The Geek Dad Book for Aspiring Mad Scientists: The Coolest Experiments and Projects for Science Fairs and Family Fun

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Praise for
Geek Dad:

Includes scores of illustrated projects that a parent and child can do together, using many materials that barely existed a few years ago... Stand back and watch the fun ensue.

The New York Times

These are truly fun, inspired, and even educational projects you can do with your kids.

Wired

There are projects that require computer skills or some knowledge of electronics; mostly, though, they require inquisitiveness and imagination... The bottom linejust as it was with our fathers and grandfathersis doing something with your kids that is fun and interesting for all parties.

Chicago Tribune

Call it Revenge of the Nerds V.... A book that embraces geek culture.

San Francisco Chronicle

A how-to guide that includes nighttime kite flying, electronic origami, and cyborg jack-o-lanterns.

USA Today gift guide

Craft projects to be shared by kids and techie dads are collected by the author of the GeekDad blog on Wired.com. The best ideas involve the making of a comic strip out of Legos and flying a light-rigged kite at night.

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Projects for science enthusiasts of all ages.

NPRs Science Friday

A great book... This is fun you can have with your kids, with your coworkers, with your spouse, and your friends.

arstechnica.com

[Geek Dad features] dozens of geek-friendly activities and rainy-day projects for parents (not just dads, we should note) and kids to enjoy, from creating your own comic strips to building a working lamp out of CDs and LEGO bricks. Pick it up in time for Fathers Day, and be sure to let Dad know he has to share.

babble.com

Read this crafty book for ideas to share your love of science, technology, gadgetry, and MacGyver.... Soon, together, you can rule the galaxy as father and son. Mwahaha.

boston.com

The book provides an easy gateway to spending purposeful time with your kids and sharing experiences that theyll never forget, all in the spirit of tech-savvy DIY. Now thats an idea to geek out about.

gearpatrol.com

I think many geek dads (and okay, geek moms too) will appreciate the hands-on approach that fills the void that kids just dont get today in school, especially in the American culture of teach to the test.

geekcowboy.net

Learn to create all kinds of great geeky stuff and fun with your offspring, including the ultimate in summer funa super slip and slide.

examiner.com

What a fun, educational but not in a boring way, book!

meghansmusings.wordpress.com

Full of all kinds of cool projects you can do with your kids, the book is a must-have for any dad (hint: perfect fathers day gift!) who loves to get geeky with the little ones.

mentalfloss.com

A compendium of fun and geeky projects for kids to do with their parents.

MAKEzine.com

An easy-to-read, adroitly written craft book.

neatorama.com

I would encourage any adult with latent geek-like tendencies to acquire this tome to realize their full potential.

STliving.com

A perfect manual for sharing your geekiness with the next generation.

thatsbadass.com

Denmeads subcategories for each projectconcept, cost, difficulty, duration, and reusabilityhelp readers easily navigate the book to find items they want to make that match their budgets, skill-levels, etc.

urbanbaby.com

Praise for
The Geek Dads Guide to Weekend Fun:

Packed with delightfully fun projects for a rainy day or romping in the sun. The ratio of building and playing is just right.

Chris Anderson, editor in chief, Wired

The Geek Dad blogger on Wired.com is also an engineer, so none of his enticing roster of weekend projects is likely to collapseor explode. Each DIY project comes with measures of cost, difficulty, duration, and the tools and materials youll need.

The Globe and Mail

Not only is it loaded with a new batch of great things to do with your kids... theres also a selection of projects and prose by some very cool geeky celebrities, like Ken Jennings (the Jeopardy! champ), Chris Anderson (our founding geek-father), Rod Roddenberry (keeper of the Star Trek flame), Patrick Norton (tech guru), David Hewlett (sci-fi acting fave), and more.

Wired.com

Local dad, tinkerer, and Wired blogger Ken Denmeads new book, The Geek Dads Guide to Weekend Fun, shows you how to collaborate with your budding scientist on everything from homemade robots and dry-ice ice cream to chocolate Matchbox cars.

DailyCandy.com

All of the projects have a practical, teachable component to them but kids dont have to know itjust knowing that a trebuchet is a medieval weapon will guarantee their participation.

Columbian.com

Special Thanks

As always (and it amazes me I can actually say as always here), my most special thanks go to my wife, Robin, for her partnership in life and helping make this all possible, since if it werent for her, I wouldnt be a dad. Also, shes a teacher, and Ive learned a huge amount about education via osmosis from her and through her passion for her students. What she does on a daily basis deserves greater accolades than I can provide.

Thanks to my boys, Eli and Quinn, for being patient with their dad when hes working his second and third jobs (the blogging and the book-writing), and still being excited about playing golf or Portal 2 with me.

And special love to all our pets, who dont really know whats going on, but love us as much as we love them. Brody (dog), Sassy (dog), Short Round (dog), and Barkley (fish).

I also think for this book that its important to thank the science teachers who helped feed the science-geek side of my personality. Especially Mr. Albee (aka boom-boom) in Chemistry and Mr. Barrows in AP Physics at the Head-Royce School.

And my ongoing appreciation goes out to all the people working hard to make science fun and popular and keep kids interested in the things that make our world run. In no particular order: Bill Nye, The Mythbusters (Adam Savage, Jamie Hyneman, Kari Byron, Grant Imahara, and Tory Belleci), Professor Michio Kaku, Dr. Kirsten Kiki Sanford, Phil Plait, Gever Tulley, Bill Gurstelle, and more. Keep the fire alive!

Introduction

We are dreamers, shapers, singers and makers. We study the mysteries of laser and circuit, crystal and scanner. Holographic demons and invocations of equations.

ELRIC THE TECHNOMAGE (BABYLON 5, SEASON 2, EPISODE 3
PLAYED BY MICHAEL ANSARA)

We seem to have gotten further and further away from an honest understanding and use of science in our daily lives. When emotional and political motivations color the use of scientific results, the true purpose of science gets lost. Take, for example, the recent controversy over issues like vaccination. Vaccination works. The overwhelming body of scientific evidence proves that while there are individual cases of poor reactions to vaccinations, the health of our society as a whole is significantly improved as a result of them. Yet the science surrounding them has been twisted in recent years, alarming parents and creating doubt. The result is more risk to children who are not vaccinated.

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