Virtual Nerd

There is nothing more pleasing to us here at Virtual Nerd than science popping up in movies, and the science in Iron Man is both fun and literally unbelievable. In one part of the movie, Tony Stark, a weapons mogul and science uber-genius, makes a miniature arc reactor that supposedly outputs 3 Giga Joules of [...]

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Robert J. Lang is a scientist, mathematician, and, oh yeah, an origamist. His work must be seen to be believed. Also, you may be interested in his origami math links. Don’t miss the links to other origami artists he admires (but be prepared to lose yourself for a bit) — the links to other artists [...]

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LOGO was my first taste of computer programming. Making a little triangle (called a “turtle” for some reason that was never explained to us) create cool geometric patterns on the screen. I think we were on Apple ][ e’s, maybe?
These are the artworks of Jean-Pierre Hébert, a 68-year-old French artist now working as Artist-in-Residence at [...]

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Hello there. Welcome. This is the beginning. We may not have a fix on how the universe got its start, but we can at least take some comfort in the predictability of going live with a WordPress-powered blog.

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