"Boring" topics you wish more people would geek out about with you

[Anonymous]

What are some "boring" topics you wish you could geek out about more without turning people off?

Preferably, something NOT related to your day job - because presumably, you can "geek out" about it plenty at work.

For me, it's meteorology. I'm a huge Capitol Weather Gang fan, and whenever the weather is doing weird things, I always like to follow them and find out why. Like when they explain how wedges of cool air get stuck against the mountains in West Virginia and ruin a forecasted sunny weekend, or other explanations that go way in-depth about weather patterns. I could blather on and on about the factors going into whether we're having a sunny or rainy weekend while most people just check their phone app and plan accordingly.

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Maybe you can geek out about it at work? One of my employees is a meteorology nerd and loves things like that. Every week he has "Tom's Tidbits" (not his real name, the real phrase he uses is funnier) and he tells us something that's going on for about a minute. Everyone on my team likes it, so we use it like an icebreaker for our small staff meeting. He's talked about things like why it's called a Blue Moon, meteor showers, months and days that are named after phases of the moon.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What are some "boring" topics you wish you could geek out about more without turning people off?

Preferably, something NOT related to your day job - because presumably, you can "geek out" about it plenty at work.

For me, it's meteorology. I'm a huge Capitol Weather Gang fan, and whenever the weather is doing weird things, I always like to follow them and find out why. Like when they explain how wedges of cool air get stuck against the mountains in West Virginia and ruin a forecasted sunny weekend, or other explanations that go way in-depth about weather patterns. I could blather on and on about the factors going into whether we're having a sunny or rainy weekend while most people just check their phone app and plan accordingly.

this is what discussion forums, reddit, and discord are for.

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Evolution, planet and solar system formation, viruses.

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Bird migration.

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Traffic and metro, city layout and formation, the Plantagenets

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Biodiversity

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Cults

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Multiverses

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apple cultivation

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Raising chickens and ducks
Foraging for mushrooms
Growing food forrests
Book binding
Wooden spoon carving

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Anonymous wrote:apple cultivation

Did you read that awesome article a few years back on this? It covered everything from grafting to a guy trying to find and save old fashioned species of apples to why the disgusting red delicious is still around. I know this is vague but it was a very mainstream article and I loved it even though I would not geek out on this topic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Raising chickens and ducks
Foraging for mushrooms
Growing food forrests
Book binding
Wooden spoon carving

Wonder what's going on with that lady in Australia who killed her inlaws with mushrooms

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medieval history

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Raising chickens and ducks
Foraging for mushrooms
Growing food forrests
Book binding
Wooden spoon carving

Wonder what's going on with that lady in Australia who killed her inlaws with mushrooms

Never eat an Austrailan's beef wellington