We may earn a commission from links on this page. You know the stereotype: the sensitive geek, intense in his/her passion, becomes a magnet for bullying, ridicule and harassment. And all because ...

I was a nerdy, dreamy kid, and like lots of nerdy, dreamy kids, I occasionally got bullied. One memorable incident occurred in second grade, on one of the days when we had art class. We were doing a ...

Fredrik deBoer is a doctoral candidate in Rhetoric and Composition at Purdue University, studying writing assessment and applied linguistics. September 18, 2014 Popular culture right now frequently ...

Judd Apatow’s beloved show about nerds got canceled too soon. Fourteen years later, a Freaks and Geeks actor triumphantly returns to dorkdom. Here’s how he did it–and what that says about tech culture ...