High intelligence in adolescence does not, of course, guarantee low status, but the kids who outwardly express their fascination with academics and niche subjects tend to be labeled nerds, and ...

A teenager may work at being popular every waking hour, 365 days a year. The main reason nerds are unpopular is that they have other things to think about.

Popular music has a long history of nerd-dom. Sometimes it's a style, other times it's substance, but here's an incomplete guide to some of music's greatest geeks, on a scale of 1 to 5: ...

"In Detroit," the author wrote, "someone who once would be called a drip or a square is now, regrettably, a nerd, or in a less severe case, a scurve." Merriam-Webster recounts some other popular ...

Rooting through a thrift shop probably wouldn’t be considered cool by the in-crowd classmates of junior Steph Landry. But that’s how author Meg Cabot created the character, a teen despe… ...

focused on popular, nerd and geek culture from the perspective of People of Color. Their new essay collection, Black Nerd Problems weaves social commentary with all things nerdy, covering ...

Facebook released today a new iPhone app called Mentions, but you're not cool enough to use it. Katy Perry and others who have a blue check mark next to their names — in an effort by the social ...

The hashtag invites people to assign various schoolyard archetypes — nerds, jokes, popular kids and more — to countries in Africa. And sure, it's funny.