Newsweek’s latest issue, due out tomorrow, profiles a subject near and dear to many a geek guy’s heart and loins: hot women. But there’s a twist! These are women with brains to match their good looks, and that’s exactly the point. Called the Nerd Girls, this team of twentysomething Tufts University coeds was created by founder Karen Panetta to dismantle two common “myths.” First, that boys are better at math and science than girls; and second, that a female engineer is a socially inept girl with no sense of style. Do the Nerd Girls succeed at demolishing stereotypes? We’ve covered the rising tide of girl geeks here before, and the Tufts team has already built a solar powered car (what have you done lately?), but by all means take a look at what these “Nerdettes” have to offer and decide for yourself.
Dan Lyons, aka Fake Steve Jobs, is leaving Forbes after 10 years to fill the vacancy left by Steve Levy, who is going to Wired. Now there are five horsemen of the apocalypse.
