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...NEWMAN: It?s become hip. The definition has changed. When I wrote my first book on mensches in 1994, a lot of people didn?t even know what it meant, and if they did, they thought it meant someone was a nerd or a bore. As a dating consultant, I met women who would specifically say they didn?t want to meet a mensch...
...white coats go on when it's time to approve new products. For a few hours, teams of engineers will come forward with their best ideas, hoping to dazzle the most powerful men in Silicon Valley. Google paid crazy money to attract top talent--supercharging the nerd market in the process--and this is the recruits' chance to show the investments were worth...
...passion is windsurfing) and playing with gadgets, like his new TiVo-type radio device. He's into music (he attended a recent U2 concert in Oakland) but has mostly given up the saxophone he played as a kid. Compared with Brin, Page is probably a deeper thinker and bigger nerd. I saw him preparing his keynote speech for the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas--the geek-world equivalent of the Super Bowl--nearly a month before it took place. (He ended up bringing Robin Williams onstage with him; Williams called Page "Mensa boy" and mocked how he talks...
Sussman pulled out conversational pieces, including an MIT button that read “Nerd Pride” and her business card, which identified her as a “Professional P.P.A.—Professional Pain...
...would get picked on and become high-profile.”Marco Altamirano, a friend since elementary school, says that “boyish confidence” is a trait that carries Martinez through much of his work, and that has kept him miles away from the science nerd stereotype.“He’s always ready to present himself,” Altamirano says.Speaking to his ability to entertain, Martinez was the only Harvard student chosen from the many who auditioned for “Chasing Nature.” He speaks of future TV appearances with...