Small Gifts with a Nerd Factor

Das erste Bild, das einem zu Fallout einfällt, ist meistens dieses: ein riesiges Zahnrad aus Stahl, das sich unter ohrenbetäubendem Quietschen zur ...

Vier Freunde, ein bunt bemalter Kleinbus und ein Hund, der immer genau dann Hunger bekommt, wenn es gefährlich wird. Scooby-Doo löst seit Jahrzehnt...

Das Proton hat es leicht. Es sitzt im Atomkern und ist per Definition positiv geladen, ganz gleich, was um es herum passiert. Kein schlechter Tag, ...

An Jahrestagen taucht sie zuverlässig auf, die kurze Gedenkformel Never Forget. Meistens gilt sie Menschen. Nur sehr selten gilt sie einer kugelrun...

1984 schrieb ein sowjetischer Informatiker namens Alexei Paschitnow ein Programm, in dem bunte Klötzchen von oben herabfallen und lückenlos gestape...

Das Wasser im Glas zittert, ein dumpfes Wummern rollt heran, und alle im Kinosaal wissen, dass es gleich ungemütlich wird. Jurassic Park hat 1993 e...

Eine Runde Overwatch ist schnell vorbei, die Diskussion danach dauert deutlich länger. Wer hätte den Punkt halten können, wer hat zu früh die Ultim...

Bienen bauen ihre Waben in makellosen Sechsecken, ohne Lineal, ohne Bauplan und ohne einen einzigen Tropfen Klebstoff. Wer diese Präzision einmal m...

Der Goldene Schnatz ist ungefähr walnussgroß, blitzschnell und trotzdem das Wichtigste auf dem ganzen Spielfeld. Wer als Sucher unterwegs ist, weiß...

At some point the last pizza box is empty, the television is only hissing away to itself, and things go quiet under the streets of New York. That i...

Black coat, red clouds: when somebody walks through the streets in that pattern in Naruto Shippuden, half of Konoha knows the day is about to get u...

On paper Nick Fury’s plan made no sense at all: a billionaire in a metal suit, a god of thunder, a super soldier thawed out of the forties and a sp...

Four students with far too much talent and far too little respect for the school rules once squeezed every corridor, every staircase and every hidd...

Potions at Hogwarts is a science all of its own: wrong order, too much heat, and the cauldron boils over while Professor Snape is already standing ...

Frodo does not wear the One Ring on his finger but on a plain chain around his neck, and for good reason. On the finger it turns you invisible and ...

In the Hogwarts common room, nobody spends all evening on homework. Wizard's Chess sits on the shelf, and right next to it Exploding Snap, a card g...

On Pandora, the lawless desert planet from Borderlands, chaos reigns: Vault Hunters blast their way through bandit camps while garish billboards fo...

Not everyone wears their past on their chest - unless you're ex-hitman Tarou Sakamoto... or you are with the Sakamoto Days pin set of 2. This offic...

Neun Gefährten brachen in Bruchtal auf, um den Einen Ring nach Mordor zu tragen. Fünf von ihnen haben es bis an deinen Weihnachtsbaum geschafft, un...

Long before Aang learned to master all four elements, Avatar Kuruk of the Water Tribe watched over the balance of the world and hunted dangerous sp...

Magic has five colours, and each one stands for an attitude: white for order, blue for knowledge, black for ambition, red for passion, green for na...

On Ravnica, the city plane of Magic: The Gathering, ten guilds hold sway, each with its own colour pair and its own leader: the law-keepers of the ...

Friday night at the game store, Friday Night Magic is on, and between rounds the trading begins. Turn up with a heavy binder under your arm and you...

The rattlesnake this box is named after moves sideways across the desert sand, and its namesake opens exactly the same way: to the side instead of ...

Commander, also known as EDH, is the most popular multiplayer format in Magic: every deck consists of exactly 100 cards, each of them only once, le...

A samurai cared for his katana with the utmost devotion, because the blade was both protection and honour. Something similar applies to card player...

In Magic, each of the five colours has its own character, and things only get exciting when two of them work together. Red and white stand for the ...

Wednesday Addams doesn't think much of sunshine, good moods or bright colours. In the Netflix series she would rather write her gothic novel in the...

When the Avengers sit down together after a battle won, they like to do it over shawarma, just like after the Battle of New York in the first Aveng...

Christmas at Hogwarts means Hagrid hauling enormous fir trees into the Great Hall, candles floating beneath the enchanted ceiling, and anyone stayi...

In Hayao Miyazaki's 1988 classic My Neighbor Totoro, little Mei spots a tiny white creature scurrying through the grass in the garden. She follows ...

In her third year Hermione Granger simply wanted to learn everything, even when her lessons clashed. Her solution was a Time-Turner, a tiny hourgla...

At Hogwarts, Christmas presents are piled at the foot of your bed. We have known that since Harry's first winter at the castle, when an Invisibilit...

In the fires of Mount Doom, Sauron secretly forged the One Ring to rule all the other Rings of Power. Right at the start of the film trilogy you se...

Pamela Isley is a botanist, poison is her speciality, and since 1966 she has been taking on Batman as Poison Ivy. In Gotham City she fights for the...

Rick Sanchez is the smartest being in the entire multiverse, and he is happy to tell you so himself. Meanwhile his grandson Morty Smith stumbles al...