We have a serious soft spot for nerds. We’ve not jerking off in the audience at Dark Knight or anything, but there’s nothing that gets us going quite like a huge…brain. Sure, we tuned in to watch the televised landing of the new Mars rover last night, but just like everyone in the world, our attention quickly waned from super-science-in-space thing to “holy shit—who is the guy with the mohawk in the control room?!”