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Amanda Marcotte's new piece on female nerds in television is perceptive — but it also shows how diluted the word "nerd" has become. More »
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I was a nerd growing up — still am, I guess, if I'm going to be honest about it. I got my first set of braces just before the 4th grade, the same year I got my first pair of glasses, so I had buck teeth, a mouth full of metal, pink-framed glasses and Bettie Page bangs years before they started being cool again. I was also the smartest girl in the class and, if not the least popular, pretty close. I had a crush on a soccer-playing popular boy named Brian Keenan, who didn't like me back. But what I also had was a lot of books, parents who encouraged me to read (and were strict about what I could watch on television) and enough imagination that I didn't notice the lack of MTV until I was in junior high. One of my favorite series of books growing up was Nancy Drew, and, of course, as NPR explains in its latest "In Character" segment, I was not alone. More »
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