It was the year of the nerd 
That the nerd you are really taken revenge? Apart from the obligatory citation of the 1984 cult film, "Revenge of the Nerds" by Jeff Kanew, let's think a moment: total nerd like Mark Zuckerberg today sitting on a fortune of hundreds of millions of dollars and are celebrated in film The Social Network as David Fincher. Steve Jobs is one of the most influential personalities of our time in the club of nerds and success are also its historical nemesis, Bill Gates. Not to mention the fact that, in years so technologically advanced as those of today, such as skills of the nerd take on a whole new significance when compared to technology and computers were just a matter for geeks with big rimmed glasses, a little 'anti-social and fixed with science fiction, video games, roleplaying games and comics. We are not sure of the value arrived at transvaluation nerd - the language here helps: it could be made in Italian as "loser", "nerd", or more precisely as a combination of both - but certainly we are far from the period when the ' canonical image of the nerd was that of a boy, his face encrusted with acne with very low (say, no) interest in sports and systematically ridiculed by male blonde and big-alpha that are part of the school football team and are paired with the cheerleaders. Or rather, the stereotype is true in part yet, but now that the nerd is a category strongly appreciated, very current, which finds new life even in the world of fashion and pop culture that is valued by sit-com (all Big Bang Theory) and music. To say, has just released a book that tells the history, genealogy and features. It is titled "Natural History of the nerd" (ISBN editions) and is written by Benjamin Nugent, a journalist with a background music from nerd (who narrates with critical distance but also with great affection). Nugent tries to fix the general, in a book documented and extremely convincing. For example, explains that these are "people who express their intellectualism mechanically, and whose social ineptitude has something just as mechanical, "who speak a language standard without connotations jargon, they love the technology much more than they love normal people," who tend to avoid confrontation and involvement in the physical and emotional. " Genius and "regolatezza", in short. What's more, boys and girls who wear clothes out of fashion and care little about their appearance, which is totally immersed in virtual worlds such as Dungeons & Dragons or superhero comics or Star Wars, which are opposed - consciously or not - the ideal of American success represented by the figure of the "jock" (The guys who excel in sports). The author even try to correlate these characteristics with those of a form of autism, Asperger syndrome. In the long teased, marginalized and viewed with suspicion, but the nerd, as I said, you are taking revenge unexpected. And not only for their dominion over the world of technology. For example, there was a vindication of its external aspects in fashion - the triumph of the nerd glasses-it-often without the lenses or the revival of the cardigan are just some of the signs of this trend, linked in various ways (as also stressed Nugent) to the emerging subculture hispter. That is, to boys 'hip' that seem to say, "are so" cool "you do not need to prove it and then bring the outward signs of who is not, even though, once those signs are now in fashion are now showing signs of being "cool" and then by the mechanism of coolness but not if it leaves. There is an American sitcom hugely successful Big Bang Theory, which is probably the definitive codification of being the quintessential nerd. One character in particular, Sheldon Cooper, seems to sum up the features in a precise and highly exaggerated. It is a theoretical physicist. He is passionate about American superhero comics, technology and science fiction (Star Trek, for example). It's full of tics and phobias, obsessions. Deeply detests physical contact and the prospect terrifies him to have sex. It is presumptuous and judgments in a way that exacerbates, literally exhausting his friends. He can not get in touch emotionally with the people around him, and definitely not interested (when someone tries to cheer up, because that would require social conventions, two formalissime pat on the back saying "up, up"). He knows and knows just about everything but has a crisis when it comes to arguments "light" who has never touched (Radiohead? Britney Spears?). Yet it is one of the most beloved American sitcoms in recent years. A little 'as it was Steve Urkel of Family Matters. Sign of the times in pop culture nerds today are also nice people.
Andrea Tramonte, Unione Sarda
That the nerd you are really taken revenge? Apart from the obligatory citation of the 1984 cult film, "Revenge of the Nerds" by Jeff Kanew, let's think a moment: total nerd like Mark Zuckerberg today sitting on a fortune of hundreds of millions of dollars and are celebrated in film The Social Network as David Fincher. Steve Jobs is one of the most influential personalities of our time in the club of nerds and success are also its historical nemesis, Bill Gates. Not to mention the fact that, in years so technologically advanced as those of today, such as skills of the nerd take on a whole new significance when compared to technology and computers were just a matter for geeks with big rimmed glasses, a little 'anti-social and fixed with science fiction, video games, roleplaying games and comics. We are not sure of the value arrived at transvaluation nerd - the language here helps: it could be made in Italian as "loser", "nerd", or more precisely as a combination of both - but certainly we are far from the period when the ' canonical image of the nerd was that of a boy, his face encrusted with acne with very low (say, no) interest in sports and systematically ridiculed by male blonde and big-alpha that are part of the school football team and are paired with the cheerleaders. Or rather, the stereotype is true in part yet, but now that the nerd is a category strongly appreciated, very current, which finds new life even in the world of fashion and pop culture that is valued by sit-com (all Big Bang Theory) and music. To say, has just released a book that tells the history, genealogy and features. It is titled "Natural History of the nerd" (ISBN editions) and is written by Benjamin Nugent, a journalist with a background music from nerd (who narrates with critical distance but also with great affection). Nugent tries to fix the general, in a book documented and extremely convincing. For example, explains that these are "people who express their intellectualism mechanically, and whose social ineptitude has something just as mechanical, "who speak a language standard without connotations jargon, they love the technology much more than they love normal people," who tend to avoid confrontation and involvement in the physical and emotional. " Genius and "regolatezza", in short. What's more, boys and girls who wear clothes out of fashion and care little about their appearance, which is totally immersed in virtual worlds such as Dungeons & Dragons or superhero comics or Star Wars, which are opposed - consciously or not - the ideal of American success represented by the figure of the "jock" (The guys who excel in sports). The author even try to correlate these characteristics with those of a form of autism, Asperger syndrome. In the long teased, marginalized and viewed with suspicion, but the nerd, as I said, you are taking revenge unexpected. And not only for their dominion over the world of technology. For example, there was a vindication of its external aspects in fashion - the triumph of the nerd glasses-it-often without the lenses or the revival of the cardigan are just some of the signs of this trend, linked in various ways (as also stressed Nugent) to the emerging subculture hispter. That is, to boys 'hip' that seem to say, "are so" cool "you do not need to prove it and then bring the outward signs of who is not, even though, once those signs are now in fashion are now showing signs of being "cool" and then by the mechanism of coolness but not if it leaves. There is an American sitcom hugely successful Big Bang Theory, which is probably the definitive codification of being the quintessential nerd. One character in particular, Sheldon Cooper, seems to sum up the features in a precise and highly exaggerated. It is a theoretical physicist. He is passionate about American superhero comics, technology and science fiction (Star Trek, for example). It's full of tics and phobias, obsessions. Deeply detests physical contact and the prospect terrifies him to have sex. It is presumptuous and judgments in a way that exacerbates, literally exhausting his friends. He can not get in touch emotionally with the people around him, and definitely not interested (when someone tries to cheer up, because that would require social conventions, two formalissime pat on the back saying "up, up"). He knows and knows just about everything but has a crisis when it comes to arguments "light" who has never touched (Radiohead? Britney Spears?). Yet it is one of the most beloved American sitcoms in recent years. A little 'as it was Steve Urkel of Family Matters. Sign of the times in pop culture nerds today are also nice people. Andrea Tramonte, Unione Sarda 
