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Catch The xTool M1 Ultra Multi-Tasking Laser on Black Friday Sale
After spending some time with xTool’s M1 Ultra, the other tools in my maker arsenal are feeling sorely neglected. This machine is a laser cutter/engraver, which it’s great at being. But it can also be...
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Get Started Resin Printing With the HALOT-X1
If you enjoy 3D printing with filament and are interested in something new, resin printing is a great option. There are some definite challenges–resin is notoriously messy and has more safety issues to...
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GeekDad/GeekMom Holiday Gift Guide 2025: Gadgets
Every geek loves a new gadget. Here’s a selection from the GeekDad and GeekMom writers, featuring their favorite gadgets to add to your Christmas list. JLab JBuddies ANC 2 in 1 Wireless + Wired Kids...
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GeekDad/GeekMom Holiday Gift Guide 2025: Clothing and Everyday Essentials
It’s time to get styling and stocking up on everyday necessities that we think you should consider this gift-giving season. Here are our favorites from around the web. Displate Metal Posters Suggested...
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GeekDad/GeekMom Holiday Gift Guide 2025: Stocking Stuffers
Now that “the stockings have been hung by the chimney with care,” let’s stuff them with all the goodies. Here is our final gift guide of the holiday season, covering all our favorites to stuff those...
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Skye Sweetnam, Sumo Cyco, and the Power of Community
Like many others, I jumped directly into my Apple Music Replay this year filled with more than a little enthusiasm. For the first time, all the music would be mine and not tied to my kiddo’s account....
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The New Rubik’s x Tetris Cube Is a Fun Mashup of ’80s Toys
As we get older, we tend to forget about some of the things we played with when we were kids. Some toys that were so fun in the moment just fade into the recesses of our memory, only remembered when...
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‘Mouse Guard: Dawn of the Black Axe’: Interviewing David Petersen...
Somewhere in the vicinity of early 2013, I’d been scanning some of the bookshelves in our local library, near the children’s section, as my kids were 12 and 9 at the time. That’s where they kept all...
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To say that Loon Point by Carrie Classon is engaging, would be to diminish the effect that this first time novel had on me. Before I had time to think about what I should be doing with my day, I had...
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The Winter Goddess by Megan Barnard
The fight between winter and the onset of spring is something we know well in Maine, as I sit here facing down another winter storm that may keep my kids at home, I find myself thinking back to one of...
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Perfect for Spring, Marimekko Brings Bold Color and Design to Stationery
Bold and minimalist. Clean lines. Function as well as form. Large-scale prints with memorable color palettes, reflecting the colorful houses and buildings that dot the Finnish landscape, a place that...
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Half City by Kate Golden
I didn’t want another story about a young adult attending a magical school. However, I had to give Half City by Kate Golden a chance, because she had completely proved her worth in her Sacred Stones...
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Cats: The Jellicle Ball Is Trans and Queer Joy
Trans rights are human rights. In a world where trans rights keep being taken away, the joy that comes from art, music, and theatre matters more than ever. Within this landscape, Cats: The Jellicle...
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Thistlemarsh by Moorea Corrigan
Thistlemarsh is the last place that Mouse wants to be right now. Mouse has had a patchwork quilt of a life. Her mother, once the daughter of a great house who married a gardner, died when she was very...
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Chronicles of Whetherwhy: The Season of Flames
The Season of Flames is the second book in Anna James’s middle-grade fantasy series The Chronicles of Whetherwhy. We continue the exploration of magic, systems of power and how to challenge them, and...
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LEGO Garden Oasis in Portland This Weekend
A little late-breaking news: if you’re in Portland, Oregon, here’s a fun way to start your Mother’s Day celebrations a little early! This weekend (May 2 & 3) there’s a pop-up event called the LEGO...
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‘Sense and Sensibility’, a Puffin in Bloom Deluxe Edition
For the Jane Austen lover who can’t get enough gorgeous editions of her half dozen novels (me), Puffin Books has come out with a new deluxe edition of their Puffin in Bloom version of Sense and...
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Bouncing Up and Down for Fun and Fitness with the FED Fitness BT4 Bungee...
Though my favorite way to exercise is to go for a walk on a beautiful day, beautiful days can’t always be arranged. In reality, I end up doing most of my exercise inside, at home, because getting into...
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The Lumibricks Dutch Windmill Millhouse Is a Cozy Build With Some Room for...
I’ve built my share of toy brick structures in my day, from my freeform childhood in the 1970s up to the more kit-oriented present. But other than a few Nanoblock sets—which are tiny, infuriating, and...
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The Lumibricks Christmas Pub Is Merry and Bright, but With a Few Head Scratchers
Recently, I built and reviewed the Lumibricks Dutch Windmill Millhouse set, which had so many small fun details but also some areas where it could have been better thought out. (You can read that...
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