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...revival as a culturally valued subject. Janet E. Mertz, a professor at the University of Wisconsin, laments the social stereotyping in math: “Kids in high school, where social interactions are really important, think, ‘If I’m not an Asian or a nerd, I’d better not be on the math team.’ Kids are self-selecting. For social reasons, they’re not even trying.” A revamp of math’s cultural image may be the most potent tool for boosting our nation?...
...transformed the debate into a spectacular of technical punditry. Using the audio, video, and, most importantly, closed captioning feeds provided by CNN, the three guys were able to track and count the candidates’ buzzwords, analyze their body language, and isolate their argumentative technique. The event was a nerd smorgasbord, as satisfying to the tech geeks as it was to the policy wonks.I turned to Eric Gunther and Justin Manor of Sosolimited (the third member is John Rothenberg) for advice on how to describe what I had just witnessed. Their technique is not about distorting the debate, but rather...
...acuities of this smart, sweet, bordering-on-adorable romantic comedy is its awareness that by senior year, teens have been stuck for so long in their designated roles - nerd, vamp, rebel hottie - that they feel like indentured servants to them. The most agreeable myth of the movie, directed by Peter Sollett and scripted by Lorene Scafaria, from a novel by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan, is that spending a night in New York City can crack the shell of stereotype to reveal your utterly cool inner life to someone who turns out to be your soul mate. For Nick, that...
...some cases, you actually might be. Spy comedy Chuck (NBC, Mondays, 8 p.m. E.T.) returns like an old friend back from a year abroad: still likable, still funny, but with an added note of intrigue. Chuck Bartowski (Zachary Levi) is a salesman in the Nerd Herd of a big-box electronics store. One day he gets an e-mail that implants his brain with the U.S. government's classified data bank. Overnight, he becomes a conscripted secret agent and a marked man. (Remember, people: Never open unfamiliar attachments...
...Which is the other challenge that comes with tempering Franken's sense of humor: he can't use it to hide his aggression. Franken is that rare confrontational nerd, the tough Jew of a generation before him instead of the smoother, modern one that Coleman exemplifies. He still has the chest and disposition of a high school wrestler, and he famously took down a disruptive heckler at a Howard Dean rally in 2004. He loves obscure policy details, partly because he can use them to verbally beat up opponents. At the debate with Coleman on Aug. 5 at Farmfest...