Geeky Holidays Party excuses for the geek in everyone.

January 17 birthdays of geeky note: 1560 – Gaspard Bauhin, Swiss botanist (d. December 5, 1624) who wrote Pinax theatri botanici (1596), which described thousands of plants and classified them in a manner that draws comparisons to the later binomial nomenclature of Linnaeus. 1961 – Maia Chiburdanidze, Russian women’s Chess grandmaster. In Russia, chessmasters are […]

Geek events to celebrate on January 14: 1998 – Researchers in Dallas, Texas present findings about an enzyme that slows aging and cell death (apoptosis). Time to celebrate the prospect of a fountain of youth that could lead to an unlimited lifetime of acquiring useless knowledge and perfecting your Cthulhu characters.