Celebrities love self-identifying as nerds. They just love it! Put a microphone in front of a celebrity and I’d guess there’s a one in five chance that celebrity is going to work in the fact that they are a nerd. There are two explanations for this:

For those who don't know (because there are quite a few...let's be honest, not everyone reads comic books) Captain America #22 came out last week, and there was a bit of an uproar on social media that resulted in calls to fire the author, Rick Remender.

Scram, muggles. I came here to drink butterbeer and walk around a fiberglass village pretending I'm a wizard, and I DON'T HAVE ANY BUTTERBEER. So, out of the way.

Got a pint-sized geek in your life? Were you once a pint-sized geek? You ought to take a few minutes to watch actor Wil Wheaton reassure a kid who's not sure how to deal with being called a nerd like it's a bad thing.

The Doubleclicks made their video about geek girls, and it is rocking! Was that nerdy? I don't give a beholder's ass.

DeAnne Smith, one of those unreasonably talented people who can both play music AND make jokes, stuffed a bunch of nerdy pickup lines into a song and played it for everyone on YouTube. “Nerdy Love Song” is wonderful, and not just because it contains a masterful sans serif joke — it also features a troublemaking…

Interning at Google is like achieving Nirvana if you're a tech nerd. Interns get $6,000 a month, free rent, laundry service, meals, a gym membership and a free shuttle service, and that's all on top of the fact that Google's offices look like a Spy Kids-themed playground. Yes, all of those years they got bullied for…

Tired of dudes implying/outright stating that you're a fake geek because you have a vagina and therefore can never physically be balls deep in geek culture? Well, so are these ladies, and they're doing something about it.

Now that we’re all happily up to our necks in nerd shit, a former national spelling champion has returned to remind us that being a self-avowed nerd wasn’t always cool. In fact, it used to be quite uncool.

Attention, super nerds: the sixth Quidditch Cup is taking place this weekend, and if this is the first you’re hearing about it you can probably rest uneasy knowing that you are not as big a Harry Potter fan as you originally thought.

There may not be a new episode of SNL tonight, but there is a new documentary about nerd culture that promises to be almost as awesome as Trekkies (if you have not seen Trekkies, do yourself a favor and see it NOW). As you may or may not know, "bronies" (dudes who are into the My Little Ponies animated series)…

In a bid to ease some of the congestion problems at this year's Comic-Con in San Diego (or save children from a lifetime of having self-righteous scientists disprove the outlandish physics behind the exploits of their favorite superheroes) has banned strollers from its event rooms. Lazy toddlers everywhere lament!

Depending on how much you watch the show, Jersey Shore's transformation of a few unknown guidos and guidettes into an international fame plague was either the best thing or the worst thing ever to happen to entertainment. Now comes the good (or bad) news that the same company that unearthed Snooki and Pauly D is…

Now that TLC has presented its fascinating/funny/exploitative portrait of virgins, it's moving on to one of the most commonly mocked segments of our society: Geeks. As a nerd who wishes her fiancé could make such an impressive wookiee noise, I'm certainly not the target audience for this trailer, but I suspect we're…

If you told 15-year-old me that once you graduate from high school, life becomes a movie where the geek girl achieves more than her tormentors, I doubt I would've believed you.

It's easy to see why this would happen. Many screenwriters who choose to write about high school didn't have a magical four years there and most screenwriters are male. So of course when they write a screenplay about high school, it's going to center around the nerdy guy they feel they were. And in their movie, they…