The Great Geek Manual

Why do we explore? Simply put, it is part of who we are, and it is something we have done throughout our history. In NASA’s new video, “We Are the Explorers,” we take a look at that tradition of reaching for things just beyond our grasp and how it is helping us lay the foundation for our greatest journeys ahead.

A vigorous discussion of “Our Future In Space” between Pamela Gay, Lawrence Krauss, Bill Nye, and Neil deGrasse Tyson. This panel was one of the most memorable moments of TAM 2011 Las Vegas. We invite you to enjoy the video of this great panel discussion.

What is the Internet doing to our brains? Dr. Paul Howard Jones distills 178 scientific studies to examine whether there’s any merit to the popular fears about what technology is doing to us. More in these 7 essential books on the future of the Internet, as well as the most recent EDGE question, asking 172 contemporary thought-leaders how the Internet is changing the way they think.

Neil deGrasse Tyson speaks on the future of NASA. No other part of government has the inspirational bang for the buck that the space agency has, but we are currently squandering it.

A Biopunk Manifesto by Meredith Patterson from SMA

Scientific literacy is necessary for a functioning society in the modern age. Scientific literacy is not science education. A person educated in science can understand science; a scientifically literate person can *do* science. Scientific literacy empowers everyone who possesses it to be active contributors to their own health care, the quality of their food, water, and air, their very interactions with their own bodies and the complex world around them.

Nerd Nite SF: “Scanning the Zombie Brain” by Dr. Bradley Voytek, 1/19/11 from nerdniteSF

Check out this amazing lecture about the science of zombies will most definitely keep you entertained. Also be sure to follow the link for some cool graphics and even more good information.

Google Science Fair Experiment, featuring another Rube Goldberg machine from Synn Labs, who were behind the brilliant OK Go video. Check out the behind the scenes, which goes along with a cool profile of Synn Labs in this month’s Fast Company.

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The Symphony of Science series just gets better and better.

“The Big Beginning” is the eighth installment in the Symphony of Science music video series. It deals with the origins of our universe, covering the Big Bang theory, expansion and cooling of the universe, formation of galaxies, the interplay between matter and anti-matter, and cosmic radiation. The music video features Stephen Hawking, Richard Dawkins, Carl Sagan, Tara Shears, and Neil deGrasse Tyson. Videos sampled for this installment include Into the Universe with Stephen Hawking; God, The Universe, and Everything Else; The Universe (History Channel); NOVA ScienceNOW; interviews with Richard Dawkins and Tara Shears, and Carl Sagan’s Cosmos.