issue 1 including: how to fold an icosihedron from your lecture notes · d.i.y. high-voltage physics · the inaugural rimmer and lister awards for good and bad sci-fi · astrology, dubious science of the month · the time they legislated that pi = 4 · sex in space · + juicy miscellany
issue 2 including: editorial burgeoning with nerdish patriotism · celebrity guest contributor's startling confessions · the page of mathematical lies · physics and the simpsons · bio-magnetic therapy: dubious science of the month · nerdling gets stuck into mensa · the 60-second guide to identifying bad sci-fi · oh and so much more
issue 3 including: cindy crawford, who would have thought? · maths and science in literature · movie review: armageddon · quiz: how nerdy are you? · the inaugural cat award · a personal account of physics suffering · nerd words · pov-ray, nerd fetish · and a large fries
issue 4 including: sarah, the 'intelligent yet beautiful' lady · how to get fractal-happy · classic moments in old sci-fi · molecules with excellent names · poetry and science · how not to predict the future · otherworldly messages from the ghost of plato · how to leave the planet for under five bucks · and a big pile of other stuff too
issue 5 including: how to fold a dodecahedron from your lecture notes · a history of astronaut fashion · alba the fluorescent bunny · Dr Cube and Kung Fu Chicken Noodle: when science experiments go wrong and take over Manhattan · the most confusing family tree in sci-fi · physics warning labels · women in astronomy part one · ridiculous sci-fi alien species of the month · and platonic solid madness · you'll laugh, you'll cry, it will change your life.
issue 6 including: einstein and heather graham · expose: what space is being used for · god's recent scientific output · scientific units and measurement · nazi chinese on the international space station · ig nobility · women in astronomy part two · the journal of laboratory animals · nerdling on the cover of Vogue magazine · and a round on a well-known text · read on and prosper, brothers and sisters.
issue 7 including: a present-modernist editorial · a beginner's guide to the klingon language · space law: can we sell the moon? · the space settlement initiative: should we sell the moon? · how to tell if you're a physicist · close encounters of the nth kind · great nerd april fools pranks · liquid nitrogen ice cream · bob's home school of quantum mechanics · and the boot gets put into enterprise · please form an orderly queue.
issue 8 including: sci fi comics! · more mathematical lies (including a proof of the 'swimsuit slimming' theorem) · phi: the 'divine number' or the sign of the devil? · Enterprise episode review · Mars' Happy Face crater · the 'Rabbit in the Moon' guide to lunar geography · how to sew some funky topology · current affairs: Japanese scientists develop the technology to turn us into human batteries a la the Matrix · how to make the original starship enterprise from an old floppy disk · and to tell more would be giving too much away.
issue 9 including: what would happen if you got kicked out of an airlock without a spacesuit · tales of lateral thinking gone amok · obscure scientific fields · sci-fi myths debunked: daleks & stairs · factoids · no-one ever says reykjavik in a song pt I: the bobby fischer story · ancient counting systems · the platonic solids in nature · and an erotic poem · come on in and join our nerdist colony.
issue 10 including: chemical alert - dihydrogen monoxide · the classics are full of shit pt I - plato's timaeus · the bobby fischer story pt II · the platonic solids in art · and why there's a planet called ZappaFrank (but no star called TomCruise) · read it or the cute tribble gets it.
issue 11 including: university in the middle ages · Erwin Schroedinger, self-titled sex god · the Borg versus My Little Pony · how to calculate the chances of communicating with aliens · make your own (floppy-)disko ball · strange poems, stereograms and a 1970s knitting-pattern nerd love story · and how to write a patent like a genius, including a special feature on averting nuclear disaster using cat-flap technology, and introducing the incomprehensible roller-pogo-boot. "Interesting, thorough, persuasive and convincing." - Eddie Gibb, Sunday Herald. Any relationship between this comment and nerdling zine is purely coincidental.
NEW: issue 12 including: home science - from creating your own antimatter using household items, to discovering whether carrots turn you orange · (serious) physics journal article titles · research reveals: why men make better engineers · art + science = cloaca · startling optical illusion · the mobius strip · math and mujahedeen · an introduction to 'introduction to philosophy' · and glorious progress through science in 2005. Be there and be square.
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special issue 1: the nerd guide to europe documenting the editor's nerdly encounters while traveling around europe, including: · almost being killed several times over in the German Science Museum · hanging out in the European Space Agency communications centre · visiting the German town named after nerdling zine · the Marie Curie tour of Paris · checking out the bizarre Einstein tributes in Ulm · cool stuff in Iceland · and the fascinating trip statistics section · virtual travel here we come
special issue 2: nerdling goes nuclear including: · "Real, healthful radioactive water... nature's way to health" · calculate your own daily radiation dose · why your town is not 'nuclear free' · E=mc2, or how those little atom dudes pack so much punch · great uses for nuclear weapons: fight hurricanes · how to build your own nuclear reactor · nuclear waste issues · personal accounts of nuclear explosions · "My Greatest Thrill": the bombing of Nagasaki · atomic era pop culture · the Nevada Testing Site: pigs in uniforms, dogs in cages, and a fun family destination · nuclear testing in Australia · Canadian Mounties Vs Atomic Invaders · and lots of other stuff too · sit back, strap on your weird radiation-proof goggles and download the zine