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Just a quick update that the puzzle for the location of next week's Hack Club is up here! Happy hunting! This month's puzzle was created by my long-time friend, Matt Watkins, who offered us a panoply of different difficulty levels and made this one in just a few hours. Matt, Breadpig salutes your quick and creative thinking! MATT IN SPACE! Well, on the Vomit Comet.

After moving to New York, Alexis met innumerable NY geeks who were dismayed by the dearth of purely geek events in the city.  Plenty of ostensibly geeky events were invaded by a glut of people who had big ideas, but were more interested in finding a programmer than building it themselves. We dreamt of creating a fun space where geeks, especially those who hadn't gone the startup route and needed the company of like-minded people, could roll up their sleeves without getting hassled or recruited--and so Hack Club was born. Hack Club is an occasional gathering where geeks can meet...

Handprints at the Early Childhood Development Center Just a few hours before flying out of Kathmandu, I met up with Luna and fought through some intense traffic to visit one of her ChangeFusion fellows' operations. When Luna found out that I had spent some time working in prisons, she insisted that I make time to visit Pushpa Basnet's Early Childhood Development Center. Looking back, I could not have found a better way to spend my last day in Nepal. (ZOMG ALL THE PICTURES OF KIDS) Pushpa was out of town for a conference in Japan, but her Early Childhood Development...

Luna and Rafael of ChangeFusion Nepal Luna Shrestha Thakur left Nepal as a teenager because she found its patriarchy suffocating, especially for bright, independent young women like her. For ten years, she traveled the world and learned about different cultures and societies: she was so inspired by what she encountered that she wrote a book, A Journey to the Self, and published it for other Nepali youth with similar questions. The reception to the book was so positive that she returned to Nepal to speak and, eventually, founded an incredibly promising organization aiming to inspire a new generation of dreamers...