A geek is not a nerd. And vice versa. Unless, of course, they are. A portrait of the author as a young nerd When I was a kid, I wore thick black glasses, long pants that were too short with formal ...

Nerds used to be featured as caricatures in American films and TV series, usually depicted as young white males with large glasses, braces, acne, trousers hitched up, a borderline autistic attitude ...

Despite the increased popularity of geek culture and the ubiquity of computers, the geek's close cousin, the nerd, still suffers from a negative stereotype in popular culture, according to new ...