have you ever looked up the term embryo in a science dictionary? just because it says embryo doesn't mean its a fertilized egg. in fact if you look at news from may 2005 Korean scientist used embryo to create stem cells, these embryos were eggs unable to ever become anything more because they were not fertilized eggs.
Maybe you should brush up on the terminology they used because it's not always what it appears.
I think that the mainstream has a stereotypical view of geeks paired with science, specifically computer science. We as a society get our own stereotypes from media aka mainstream, like the movie revenge of the nerds has shaped most peoples views even though it was made in the 80s. Further more I don't think that a geek can be disguised by their look, I happen to know a lot of people that fit under the geek category by definition in a mind set, but by their physical appearance they don't, and you yourself said "an unfashionable or socially inept person" or "a person with an eccentric devotion to a particular interest" so a geek could be a model and have a devotion to say all things Legos, hypothetically of course. So when you try to define people as a geek or not, you just have to look at it from all angles, other wise u just might miss something important, being the person as a whole. Geeks have never been bad; actually those geeks who enjoy math and science are the ones that will most likely shape our world's future.
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great point, lets give bush a blog. and we can all comment on that.
have you ever looked up the term embryo in a science dictionary? just because it says embryo doesn't mean its a fertilized egg. in fact if you look at news from may 2005 Korean scientist used embryo to create stem cells, these embryos were eggs unable to ever become anything more because they were not fertilized eggs. Maybe you should brush up on the terminology they used because it's not always what it appears.
I think that the mainstream has a stereotypical view of geeks paired with science, specifically computer science. We as a society get our own stereotypes from media aka mainstream, like the movie revenge of the nerds has shaped most peoples views even though it was made in the 80s. Further more I don't think that a geek can be disguised by their look, I happen to know a lot of people that fit under the geek category by definition in a mind set, but by their physical appearance they don't, and you yourself said "an unfashionable or socially inept person" or "a person with an eccentric devotion to a particular interest" so a geek could be a model and have a devotion to say all things Legos, hypothetically of course. So when you try to define people as a geek or not, you just have to look at it from all angles, other wise u just might miss something important, being the person as a whole. Geeks have never been bad; actually those geeks who enjoy math and science are the ones that will most likely shape our world's future.