#NerdGirls Everywhere! Here is People’s Sexiest Man Alive List

You’re welcome.

#1 is BRADLEY COOPER

“I’m waiting for Dax Shepard to come out, and that it’s an episode of Punk’d,” Cooper says of being named PEOPLE’s Sexiest Man Alive of 2011. But what really earned the modest 36-year-old actor this year’s honor? A combination of box office appeal (who hasn’t seen The Hangover movies?), undeniable good looks and the lengths he’ll go to for romance. Asked the sexiest thing he’s done to woo a woman, Cooper tells PEOPLE, “Getting on a plane to go get them.”

LIAM HEMSWORTH

American fans can thank Hemsworth’s big brother Chris for luring the 21-year-old Aussie to Hollywood. “I saw my brother doing it and thought I could do it better,” Hemsworth told Interview magazine of following his sibling into acting. While Hemsworth ultimately lost the lead in Thor to Chris, his buff physique landed him an even more sought-after role – that of Gale in the much-anticipated The Hunger Games franchise.

IDRIS ELBA

He’s made a lasting impression on fans of The Wire, earned an Emmy nomination for his devilish turn in the BBC’s Luther and showed off his 6-foot-3-inch form to very good advantage in Thor. So what’s the British-born actor’s weakness? “A woman who has really nice, looked-after skin is such a turn-on for me,” Elba, 39, told Essence. “It’s always sexy.”

JUSTIN THEROUX

“I’m extremely lucky, and I’m extremely happy,” Jennifer Aniston said a month after she and Theroux began dating in May. So how did the 40-year-old motorcycle-riding, leather-loving, screenwriter-actor nab Hollywood’s most lovable Friend? The Bennington grad “is not Mr. Hollywood; he’s quirky and hip and kind of like Jen that way,” says a pal in Theroux’s circle of friends.

CHRIS EVANS

Though Evans jokes that he looked pretty scrawny for most of his life, the 30-year-old lead of the summer blockbuster Captain America made star-spangled Spandex a uniform women could get behind. Even more endearing: He’s a mama’s boy. “We’re incredibly tight,” Evans tells PEOPLE of his mother, Lisa. “Mom can hang – she’s on the level.”

TIM MCGRAW

How does the 44-year-old singer-actor stay Country Strong in real life? Two hundred push-ups and crunches each day – and he credits his 15-year marriage to fellow country superstar Faith Hill and being dad to three daughters (Gracie, 14, Maggie, 13, and Audrey, 9) with keeping him grounded. “I’m inspired by watching him as a father and husband,” Hill tells PEOPLE.

JOSH CHARLES

“I’m not interested in playing a character and having him be called ‘likable,'” Charles, who plays enigmatic lawyer Will Gardner on The Good Wife, tells EW. It’s precisely that mystique that has made the 39-year-old actor so irresistible to Julianna Margulies’s character, Alicia – and to audiences who tune in Sundays to the hit CBS drama.

JOEL MCHALE

“I made it because there were a lot of people who were out of town,” McHale, 40, says of his inclusion on PEOPLE’s Sexiest Man Alive list. Clearly The Community star’s humor earned him a sexy badge of honor – and a sizable social network of fans. His PEOPLE.com Funny Is the New Sexy video has already earned him over 500,000 likes – just for watching the comic brew a mean cup of Joel.

JASON MOMOA

Aloha, abs! The Honolulu-born Game of Thrones actor endured six-hour workouts – and bulked up his 6-foot-4-inch frame from 210 to 230 lbs. – to play Conan the Barbarian in the remake of the ’80s film. So how did the 32-year-old actor celebrate the movie’s wrap? “I flew straight to Rome and just [ate] pasta,” Lisa Bonet’s offscreen leading man said.

RYAN GOSLING

He’s a real-life good Samaritan, he loves dogs and he finally showed off his funny bone (and hot abs!) in the summer hit Crazy, Stupid, Love. Even his costars aren’t immune to the Canadian actor’s boyish charms. “He’s a good-looking guy. I did notice that,” Gosling’s Crazy, Stupid, Love costar Steve Carell tells PEOPLE.

ALEC BALDWIN

His scene-stealing turn as 30 Rock’s Jack Donaghy for the past six seasons has rebranded the ’90s box-office leading man into one of TV’s funniest stars. “Everybody thinks I’m funny. I’m fooling everybody,” the 53-year-old actor said recently. Now he gets to share the laughs with a new love in his life: yoga instructor Hilaria Thomas. “My girlfriend is very important to me,” Baldwin said of his one-year relationship.

DYLAN MCDERMOTT

McDermott put the fear factor back in prime time with his new FX series American Horror Story, but thrillers and chillers weren’t exactly the shows he tuned into while growing up. “I used to watch I Dream of Jeannie after school,” the 50-year-old star tells PEOPLE. “I was fascinated by her in that outfit, and I wanted to live in that bottle with her.”

[via People Magazine]

*JIZZ IN PANTS* These men are HOT! My personal favorites is Chris Evans and Ryan Gosling. mmm…

Who are your favorites, #nerdgirls??

del Toro’s ‘Pacific Rim’ Starts Production!!

*monsters vs robots?!?!? frak yea!!!*

Director Guillermo del Toro has confirmed that he’s started production on his next movie Pacific Rim. This is his first movie since Hellboy 2, and I can’t wait to see he have planned for this epic monster and robot battle film.

We start shooting next Monday [Eds. note: Nov. 14] on Pacific Rim, which is a gigantic production for Legendary Pictures and Warner Bros. We are wrapping production on a smaller, very powerful horror film called Mama, which I am producing. Chuck and I are working on a series of books that I can’t talk too much about. But we started on that about two weeks ago. I’m still working on animation at DreamWorks. I’m keeping myself pretty busy.

We are working with actors that I absolutely adore. Idris Elba, Charlie Day, Charlie Hunnam, Ron Perlman. It’s really, it’s a very, very beautiful poem to giant monsters. Giant monsters versus giant robots. Twenty-five-story-high robots beating the crap out of 25-story-high monsters. We’re trying to create a world in which the characters are real and how it would affect our world politically, how it would affect the landscape if creatures like this really came out of the sea, etc.

Here’s a previously released full synopsis for the film:

In alternate version of Earth in the near future, decades after a historic date in November 2012 when the first kaiju, a towering Godzilla-like beast, emerged from a hole in the Pacific Ocean and attacked the city of Osaka, Japan. The second is “The Anteverse,” another universe on the other side of that gaping portal, 5 miles below our ocean’s surface.

Since the first attack, the rim has been “spitting out” a variety of gigantic monsters at an increasing rate, which then stride out of the ocean and begin destroying sea-bordering cities, like Tokyo and Los Angeles. In order to combat these monstrous, otherworldly menaces, the military developed the “Jaeger” program, which trains teams of two pilots to jointly operate massive, building-sized mechanized suits of armor and high-tech weaponry.

The central character is Raleigh Antrobus, 23, a skilled Jaeger pilot still wrestling emotionally with the loss of his co-pilot and biological brother, Yance, during a mission a year earlier. The ordeal has wreaked havoc on his mind spirit, leaving him with ghostly nightmares of the battle from the shared “pons” experience. After the initial setup, the damaged hero is recruited to re-join the task force in Tokyo, where pilots are in demand, and team with a fellow “leftover,” 22-year-old female Japanese pilot Mako Mori. Naturally, the language barrier (among other things) presents an issue for the out-of-sync duo, meaning an even steeper learning curve for the unprecedented pairing.

 

Anyone else equally excited about this movie as I am????

PlayStation Network Down Tomorrow! :(

For those of you will PS3 or PSP users out there, just a heads up that PlayStation Network will be down tomorrow, Thursday, for approximately 14 hours. The down time will be during prime playing hours, so time to look for something else to do. 8am – 10pm pacific time is the exact time they said.

You will not be able to access anything on the PlayStation Store from a PS3 or PSP. That includes access to the PSN account management, and PSN account registration. In addition, the ability to log in from the U.S. PlayStation website will also be restricted. There may be some lucky users that still manage to get online, but the vast majority of people will have no access.

 

Just come back here to #nerdgirls to catch up on the news.

Epic Win: Boba Fett on My Little Pony

Seriously, this is awesome!

The piece is called Epic Win, and it was created by DeviantArt user Fooray.

 

[via GeekTyrant]

 

Trek Nation is for you, Trekkies

The Science Channel is set to premiere Trek Nation – a two-hour event that takes audiences inside the Star Trek phenomenon. George Lucas, J.J. Abrams and Seth MacFarlane join Eugene “Rod” Roddenberry Jr. on the journey of a lifetime featuring never-before-seen footage. Tune in on Wednesday, November 30, at 8PM ET/PT.

Here is the official press release:

SCIENCE celebrates the 45th anniversary of one of the greatest television franchises of all time, Star Trek, with the world-premiere two-hour event, TREK NATION. This tribute follows Gene Roddenberry’s son, Rod, as he explores the deep impact of his father’s singular vision for the future.  Through interviews with fans, including George Lucas, J.J. Abrams, Seth MacFarlane, and many notable Star Trek alums, TREK NATIONchronicles a son’s journey to discover his father’s work that helped defined science fiction. TREK NATION premieres on SCIENCE on Wednesday, November 30 at 8PM ET/PT.

TREK NATION draws on hours of exclusive footage, including never-before-seen home movies from the Roddenberry family collection and the first-ever Star Trek convention.  This film demonstrates that Roddenberry’s work has not only inspired legions of fans across the globe, but generated a cultural movement. Star Trek is a phenomenon that goes beyond entertainment; it has influenced politics, space travel, social morality and much more. Star Trek was a catalyst which has fostered an enhanced understanding of the human condition, capturing man’s constant search for a better world.

“Gene Roddenberry is the original thought-provocateur; the rebel-genius who was not afraid to push the boundaries of what science can accomplish,” said Debbie Myers, general manager and executive vice president of SCIENCE. “Star Trek used science fiction to hold a mirror to society, leveraging its storylines as a platform for social commentary touching on topics such as racism, sexism, the economy, war, peace and religion.  Working with Rod, and showing footage never shared on television is what makesTREK NATION truly inspiring.”

“I am so glad TREK NATION found its home at SCIENCE,” says Rod Roddenberry, Executive producer of Trek Nation and son ofStar Trek creator, Gene Roddenberry. “They understood that, as personal as the film was for me, TREK NATION is really a universal story of a son coming to understand his father.  The experience allowed me to learn more about the man behind this incredible science fiction phenomenon as well as the man I knew as ‘Dad.’  I think it’s something that Star Trek fans and those less familiar with the franchise will enjoy.”

Star Trek was a revolution that would define an era.  When it first premiered on NBC in 1966, it often was described as a western set in space.  However, the series provided a much deeper commentary that created a devoted and loyal fan base which continues to grow, even today.  With a then-virtually-unknown cast, each week Roddenberry told tales of humans and aliens who lived side by side and served the Starfleet, the peacekeeping armada of the universe.

TREK NATION is produced for SCIENCE by Roddenberry Entertainment and New Animal Productions.  For Roddenberry Entertainment, Rod Roddenberry and Trevor Roth are executive producers.  Executive producer Nicole Rittenmeyer represents New Animal.  Bernadette McDaid is the executive producer and vice president of production for SCIENCE.  Lindsay Foster is associate producer for SCIENCE and Debbie Adler Myers is general manager and executive vice president of SCIENCE.

Got the Right Stuff?

Hey Nerd Ladies and Gents – NASA is recruiting astronaut candidates now until January 27th. Do you have what it takes? Beyond the degree in engineering, mathematics or the physical sciences, being an astronaut requires

“…at least 3 years of related, progressively responsible, professional experience OR at least 1,000 hours pilot-in-command time in jet aircraft…master’s degree = 1 year of experience, doctoral degree = 3 years of experience. Teaching experience, including experience at the K – 12 levels, is considered to be qualifying experience for the Astronaut Candidate position; therefore, educators are encouraged to apply.”

Also, since the space shuttle is no more, astronauts will be required to fly in the Soyuz space vehicle so you must “meet the anthropometric requirements for both the Soyuz vehicle and the extravehicular activity mobility unit (space suit)”.

Sadly, I don’t make the grade. Although I am quite tiny. Le sigh. One day, Space, I will walk in you.

[Via USAJobs.gov.]