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[geek] / gik /


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If you’ve heard of Schlesinger at all — and aren’t a power-pop geek or a “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend” superfan — it was likely through his band Fountains of Wayne and their 2003 hit “Stacy’s Mom.”

From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2026

The anonymous math geek who quit Anthropic and became the face of AI safety.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 17, 2026

Attendees can geek out on topics from the use of AI in medicine to the psychology of deception, all in a fun, low-stakes environment.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2026

He’s also a baseball stats geek, so he was excited to hear about Claude’s pick in our pool.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 24, 2026

But perhaps geek kids are isolated partly because schools don’t provide them with any means of connecting.

From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz

This might not come as a surprise to the geeks who eat, breathe and sleep all things retirement.

From MarketWatch ● May 14, 2026

Privacy geeks have been warning of this moment for decades, not just in the realms of science fiction, but even on the pages of Salon, back when a digital magazine was a novel idea.

From Salon ● Feb. 20, 2026

One corner of Sundance was just for the geeks: the Holiday Village Cinemas, a humble quadraplex that hosted press and industry screenings from breakfast till dark.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 31, 2026

Unfortunately for history geeks, there are no current plans to build a tunnel through the area just yet.

From BBC ● Jan. 18, 2026

“They’ll blame computer games and the Net. Life for geeks like me who are still in high school will be hell. ... It probably already is.”

From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz


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