Salon.com > nerds http://www.salon.com Fri, 03 May 2013 22:51:04 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 “Star Trek’s” Wil Wheaton tells newborn girl why being a nerd “is awesome” http://www.salon.com/2013/04/30/star_treks_wil_wheaton_tells_newborn_girl_why_being_a_nerd_is_awesome/ http://www.salon.com/2013/04/30/star_treks_wil_wheaton_tells_newborn_girl_why_being_a_nerd_is_awesome/#comments Tue, 30 Apr 2013 17:24:00 +0000 http://www.railrode.net/?p=13285803 In a panel at the Calgary Comic & Entertainment Expo on April 27, "Star Trek" and "Big Bang Theory" actor Wil Wheaton fielded a question from an audience member, who asked him to explain to her newborn daughter "why it's awesome to be a nerd." Wheaton launched into nearly four-minute speech on growing up feeling like "there was something wrong" and then realizing, as an adult, that being a nerd is something to be valued.

It's "not about what you love -- it's about how you love it" and "finding other people who love it the way you do" is the defining characteristic of "why being a nerd is awesome," said Wheaton.

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