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Geek Celebrates with Eight Experiments for Hanukkah

Our family celebrates the holidays with science! For each night of Hanukkah, we do a different experiment. This year, we used two fabulous books for inspiration: The Book of Totally Irresponsible...

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Judy’s Library Corner: Eight Wild Nights

Okay, I’m back again. The crazy library lady. But this time I have a holiday relevant book for you. It came across the desk at work this week and I just had to snatch it up and share it with you.  It’s...

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The Night Before Christmas and More Classic Holiday Tales from Scholastic...

I love the holiday season, especially now that my daughter is old enough to start to understand what is going on with the holidays. We celebrate Christmas, but I’d like her to know that there are other...

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Geek Celebrates Hanukkah With Science: Day One

Every year, my family celebrates the eight days of Hanukkah with eight fun experiments. We’re at it again this year, starting with a balloon rocket experiment. It’s an easy, playful way to demonstrate...

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Geek Celebrates Hanukkah With Science: Day Two

Hanukkah is the festival of lights, and in my family, we celebrate with illuminating science experiments. Yesterday, we launched a balloon rocket, and today we’re sinking ships. Well, tin foil boats,...

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Geek Celebrates Hanukkah With Science: Day Three

Unconventional holiday traditions are fun for the whole family! So far this year, my family has celebrated Hanukkah by launching rockets indoors and constructing small boats in order to sink them....

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Geek Celebrates Hanukkah With Science: Day Four

This year, as in years past, my family is celebrating Hanukkah with a series of science experiments. We launched under pressure on the first night of Hanukkah. On the second night, we triumphed over...

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Geek Celebrates Hanukkah With Science: Day Five

It’s Hanukkah, and in my house that means it’s time to celebrate with science! Tonight, we poured some bubbly and drowned our…raisins. Well, we tried to drown them, but raisins are surprisingly good...

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Geek Celebrates Hanukkah With Science: Day Six

It’s the most wonderful time of the year – for science! If you haven’t been following along with my family this Hanukkah, you’ve got some catching up to do. We’ve already launched a rocket, sank a few...

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Geek Celebrates Hanukkah With Science: Day Seven

Of all the science experiments we’ve done for Hanukkah this year, and last year, this one is probably the easiest to set up and demonstrate. It also turns into a very satisfying toy. The Cartesian...

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Geek Celebrates Hanukkah With Science: Day Eight

It’s been another wonderful science-driven holiday season! We’ve experimented with balloons that blast-off, nearly unsinkable dinghies, delicious math candies, stackable liquids, desiccated dancers,...

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Geek Up Your Holiday Cards This Year

Your love of all things geeky goes strong all year long, so why not geek up your holidays as well? Click through to read all of "Geek Up Your Holiday Cards This Year." If you value content from...

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Best Audiobooks for Family Road Trips: Holiday Edition

It's that time of year when families gather for merriment and togetherness. Here's a list of some holiday-appropriate audiobooks to enjoy with the whole family. Click through to read all of "Best...

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Stack Overflow: Winter Wonderland

Today: a big stack of books about winter. Many of them are just about winter or snow, but there are a few about Christmas and one about Hanukkah, too. Click through to read all of "Stack Overflow:...

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Radio Free Hipster Ep. 39: Sore Afraid

Jingle along with a brand new episode of Radio Free Hipster: now with 100% more David Hasselhoff. Click through to read all of "Radio Free Hipster Ep. 39: Sore Afraid." If you value content from...

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Lemony Snicket’s The Latke Who Couldn’t Stop Screaming (GeekDad Wayback Machine)

Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Latke Who Couldn’t Stop Screaming: A Christmas Story is, hands-down, the funniest holiday book I’ve ever read. The fact that it also manages to tell the story of Hanukkah in...

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Geek Celebrates Hanukkah With Science: Day 1

Reading Time: 1 minute Every year, my family celebrates the eight days of Hanukkah with eight fun experiments. We’re at it again this year, starting with a balloon rocket experiment. [Come join Kay...

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Candle Quest Is a Family Game for Hanukkah

Reading Time: 6 minutes Overview: Hanukkah may be over this year, but there’s still time to kickstart this family-friendly board game about collecting candles for your menorah. Buy, sell, or auction...

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10 Winter Holiday Movies to Add to Your Family's Tradition

Reading Time: 5 minutes There are quite a few classic winter holiday movies: old ones like It’s a Wonderful Life to (relatively) newer ones like A Christmas Story, to ones that get remade over and over...

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Build the Manischewitz® Chanukah House and Win Up to $2,000

Reading Time: 2 minutesImage: Manischewitz With just over a week until Chanukah, the Manischewitz annual cookie house contest is underway, starting today! This year, the Grand Prize Winner will receive...

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