Growing up in Gloucester England in the 1980s, Simon Pegg idolized American action heroes. Obsessed with Star Wars, he was the kind of kid who put a picture of Carrie Fisher/Princess Leia on his ...

NPR's Juana Summers talks with co-creator of Black Nerds Create Bayana Davis about the collective's month-long digital celebration: Black Magical History Month. Black History Month is here with its ...

It may conjure images of Family Matters' bespectacled, suspenders-clad Steve Urkel. Or the theoretical physicist Sheldon Cooper from The Big Bang Theory. Or Scooby-Doo's Velma. Or you may ...

Nerd movies, like geeks themselves, have come a long way over the last few decades. When films about nerds and geeks started becoming popular in the 1980s, they showed the characters as losers, ...

Among the courses I teach at Milwaukee School of Engineering is speech. It's a class of mostly freshmen, but by the spring term they are college veterans, used to the pace and structure of university ...

REXBURG — As a kid, Joshua Kostansek dreamed of playing football for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. He longed to wear the red and black jersey, to hear the fans chanting his name and to become a renowned ...

Vanessa Kirby is the latest actress to take on the iconic role of Susan Storm/The Invisible Woman. As part of the cast of The Fantastic Four: First Steps, Kirby is poised to bring Sue to stunning life ...

On the first season of her show, Liz decided to become a nerd, after she was unhappy with being part of the popular crowd. But the thing is, being a nerd is not something that you choose—it’s ...