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Since its first mention in 565 by Abbot Adamnan in the Vitae Columbae, the creature known as Nessie or the Loch Ness Monster has hardly had a momen...

Cooking with friends is so nice. You are handed a questionably discolored plastic board and told to dice something. When asked exactly how big thes...

If there's one place you wouldn't expect to find the giant lizard Godzilla, it would be in the kitchen. After all, the iconic scaly beast has much ...

In the centuries that the so-called Loch Ness monster has spent in the Scottish lake, it must inevitably have acquired one or two British quirks. F...

As a nerd store, we don't normally offer religious devotional items. Normally. Because we make an exception for the Flying Spaghetti Monster, the n...

Many people have long since realized it: Floppy disks are simply no longer an appropriate storage medium. They are very fragile and simply no longe...

Let someone say again that we humans are always interested in our own safety: Our investigative research has revealed that almost all people surrou...

Anyone who thinks that all nerds are the same has never witnessed a heated debate about whether D&D or DSA is the better pen & paper role-playing g...

Sure, it's easier to work with natural numbers in everyday life. But the really cool numbers, which have made math history and led to all kinds of ...

While others are still grumbling about the resolution of Fallout 4, we remind ourselves that it doesn't take many pixels to experience truly epic a...

The Plantarium Garden Lab lets seeds sprout without you having to water them regularly. Ideal if normal houseplants don't have a long life in your ...

As nerds, we love clever puns that are not immediately understandable to outsiders. We are particularly fond of the number pi, which seems to lurk ...

The stereotypical nerd is known to live on cold pizza and warm cola. This cliché, which has been propagated by countless films, series and books, h...

Ever since Heinz Rühmann's comments on alcoholic fermentation in Die Feuerzangenbowle, we have known that chemistry and tipsy fun go hand in hand. ...

You call it "baking", we call it "experiment on the behavior of various chemicals under constant heating". And of course we don't need "flour", "sa...

If you believe a well-known advertisement and the resulting meme, the most interesting man in the world drinks beer. We've never heard such nonsens...

Every race in the most famous science fiction series of all time has its strengths: Klingons are the best fighters, Vulcans the brightest minds and...

As Muggles, we have to do without some comforts. Although we have been able to make up for a lot with our technology, the lack of magic still hurts...

The best thing about the Flying Spaghetti Monster (FSM), the noodly deity of the Pastafarians, is that, unlike some other deities, it does not impo...

Are asymmetrically topped pizzas a nightmare for you? Is there nothing worse than randomly divided pies? With short thick and long narrow pieces? T...

We all know the old adage: cooking is art, baking is science. After all, messed-up dishes can usually be salvaged somehow, whereas one milligram to...

Bored in the office, restless hands during a coffee klatch, or just a bit nostalgic? No problem, there's the Brick Mug from getDigital. This versat...

The kitchen can be a dangerous place - you handle acid, sharp blades and high heat and trigger chemical reactions. There should be much more warnin...

You call it "baking", we call it "experiment on the behavior of various chemicals under constant heating". And of course we don't need "flour", "sa...

In the mid-90s, a dream came true, because thanks to new 3D graphics cards, virtual food now looks even more real and therefore tastier. But even i...

At this point, we would like to dispel the widespread prejudice that geeks don't like plants. The problem that geeks have with plants is rather tha...

There is only one breakfast egg left. You look to the left, then to the right. Your family stares greedily at the perfect oval thing lying in the m...

"It's dangerous to cook alone!": A saying that video game fans will definitely recognize! But it's not only important when playing games, it's also...

The journey of the companions, who set out to destroy the One Ring and prevent Sauron's reign of terror, is not only dangerous and adventurous, but...

Do you know this too? As soon as you get into the kitchen to cook, dozens of chemical questions start running through your head. What is the atomic...

If you ask die-hard science fiction fans who the most iconic villains from this genre are, the term Stormtrooper is sure to come up. With their sno...

If the transformation lessons don't really work out and you don't happen to be an Animagus, there's really only one way for a young wizard to trans...

Forget everything your chemistry teacher ever said to you. (Unless it was Walther White himself, you can really still learn something from him). Do...

If you believe sayings like"There's nothing to swear by an engineer" or"Trust me - I'm an engineer", then engineers are true jacks-of-all-trades wh...

Sometimes a cup of hot chocolate, tea or coffee really does have a magical effect on the mind and body. With the magic potion warming mug, you can ...

Loose tea is a fine thing and is often simply fresher and more aromatic than commercially available tea in a bag. However, it is also a little more...