Google Video is full of documentaries - approx 3,700 videos full - including many about science and technology. Here are just a few good links.

• Richard Dawkins - Nice Guys Finish First
• The History of Hacking
• The Missing Secrets of Nikola Tesla (pictured right)

Related: BBC signs deal with YouTube. Get ready for even more science videos online.

Tasmanian devils are quickly being overcome by a facial tumor disease that researchers say threatens the entire population on the small island of Tasmania just south of the Australian mainland. Now, thanks to an arrangement made last June with Warner Brothers, home to the famous Tasmanian Devil Loony Toons cartoon character, up to $200,000 is set to be raised through the sale of stuffed animal versions of the cartoon character. The Scientist magazine reports on the background of the arrangement in its latest issue, complete with a picture of a sad looking Tas devil that has been afflicted with the facial tumor disease. We opted to go with a cute baby picture of a Tas here.

Edward Tse created a digital table interface that allows users to interact with programs such as Google Earth and games like Warcraft III. In this video, Edward shows how he can zoom in, out, and over a 3D Google Earth globe using his hands and voice without any mice or keyboards. The interactions with the Earth globe are truly amazing. In World of Warcraft, Edward and a partner move players around on the digital tabletop with their hands. This work was his PhD thesis topic - Multimodeal Co-located Interaction at the Interactions Laboratory of the University of Calgary.

Here's a cool 360 degree aerial panoramic view of the NASA Kennedy Space Center taken from a helicopter just before the December 6, 2006 shuttle launch. (This is the launch that carried Suni Williams to the ISS, from where she made phone contact with the Alvin manned submersible in early February.) Many of the important buildings and sites are labeled, such as the launch site and vehicle assembly building. You can spin around the panorama and zoom in and out to get a better view. The pictures were taken by Edward Fink, who has made a career - and a website - out of 360 degree aerial panoramic photography.

We're surfing the web so you don't have to. For more science news, see the Science News and Journals category in the Element List science link directory.

In case you missed it, you can catch pictures of this past weekend's lunar eclipse on Flickr. A search under "lunar eclipse" yields more than 10,000 photos. Sorting these by most recent allows one to find pictures eclipse such as this one (right) from Nova Scotia. Check out all 10,000 pictures by clicking here or search on "mar* lunar eclipse" to narrow the field down to ~160. See more after the jump.

Blogs? Check. Podcasts? Check. Social Network? Check. Flickr pool? Check. Wait, a Flickr pool?? Out of all of the old-school science journals, Nature has definitely led the pack by making huge strides into the Web 2.0 age - but we never thought we'd find a Flickr pool. Now it's like we know them personally!! We were just peruuusing around the Nature blogs today when we came across the Nature Publishing Group (NPG) Flickr pool on Nascent, the Nature blog about their web technology and science ventures. What's next on the horizon? Believe it or not, Nature has already created its own island in Second Life. This is just. too. much.

Forget worrying about the bird flu or West Nile virus. Have you prepared yourself against an attack of Spontaneous Opera Syndrome? Well, have you?? This horrible, disfiguring disease is afflicting humans, cats, dogs, rodents, fish, you name it. No one is safe! Just look at these pictures, will you? It's so sad. Will scientists ever find a cure? We're hereby starting the Element List Foundation For SOS Research. Send your check today. We'll see that it goes to our server bill a good cause.

There's more to becoming a scientist than overcoming the relatively 'simple' hurdles of being accepted to and graduating from a top-notch Ph.D. program. Consider this, from Science Careers:

The scientific community has long considered single-investigator research grants, such as the RO1 offered by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Holy Grail of science funding--but that goal often remains elusive, particularly for young investigators. The success rate for RO1 grants, for example, remains disappointingly low. Of 22,148 applications reviewed in 2006, only 3610 (or 16.3%) were funded. Over the 25-year period between 1978 and 2002, the median age of doctoral biomedical researchers receiving their first independent research grants from the NIH rose from 37 to 42.

Ze Frank, video blogger extraordinaire, Brown neuroscience drop-out, and son of National Academy of Sciences member Joachim Frank (pictured right; see, there's a science angle), will reach the end of his year-long video blog, The Show, this week. If you haven't yet seen the internet phenomenon known as Ze, you've been missing out. Ze doesn't like to have his videos posted on other websites like YouTube, so you have to go to his site to watch The Show. What will Ze do next? It has been rumored that Ze will soon be heading off to Hollywood. Ze said recently that he does not have a movie deal, but he does have a Hollywood agent. One might wonder what all the fuss is about over Hollywood. Everyone knows the next big thing is right here on the internet.

Kevrin Vranes, from NoSeNada and Prometheus blogs, was quoted in the NY Times today. Over at Prometheus, Kevin confirms a rumor about his political ambitions, previously posted here, writing that he is "angling for a position in the Gore White House."

RealClimate blogger Gavin Schmidt from NASA/GISS/Columbia, Brenda Ekwurzel from the Union of Concerned Scientists, and Richard Somerville from Scripps, will debate Michael Crichton, Richard Lindzin from MIT, and retired professor Philip Stott on - what else? - climate change on Wedesday, March 13. The host will be Brian Lehrer from WNYC New York Public Radio. See IQ2US for more info and listen to the debate online at the WNYC website.

More on the Carl Wunsch-Channel 4 saga and potential lawsuit at Chris Mooney's blog, The Intersection. Select quote from today's post: "I haven't seen the film, but I do know this: It's a typical creationist tactic to find a mainstream scientist, cherry pick something he's written that discusses various technical complexities, or something that he's said on that front, and so paint the scientist as a "skeptic" of evolution. It sounds as though precisely this was done to Wunsch on climate change with the latest documentary."

• Jobs at Los Alamos National Lab
• MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence (CSAIL) Job Opportunities
• Volunteer Positions at the Earthwatch Institute
• Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO) PhD Projects, Fellowships, and Faculty Positions
• Jobs at Bell Labs

Someone recently complained to me that science is slow. But science isn't performance art. It's work. And we like it that way.

"You need the willingness to fail all the time. You have to generate many ideas and then you have to work very hard only to discover that they don’t work. And you keep doing that over and over until you find one that does work."

- John W. Backus, 82, Fortran Developer, Dies [NY Times]

Unless you've been living under a rock, you probably know that the big event of today will be former Vice President Al Gore's address to Congress on global warming. CNN will be broadcasting the event online. You can also find an official video at the House Committee on Science and Technology website. Chris Mooney has been covering the Congressional hearings both on his blog at The Intersection as well as at The Huffington Post. We expect the blogosphere to erupt in a huge cyber shouting event.

Update: YouTube video of Al Gore's testimony after the jump.

Related: Star in New Role, Gore Revisits Old Stage [NY Times]

While some people have just started to get in on the Web 2.0 craze, webophiles have been busy with Web 3.0, which is all about online video. We're keeping a directory of science videos in the Element List science link directory here. Some links go to individual videos, while a growing number of sites listed are online television channels. Here are just a few of the better video channels, which contain more than just science. Be sure to send us tips on any other video sites not listed in the directory.

• Current TV - This is one of the better indie online TV channels, containing both original and viewer-created content.
• bloggingheads.tv - As the name suggests, the site is dedicated to video blogs. The homepage design is a little wacky, but then so are most video blogs.
• Vidipedia - The world's first video encyclopedia.
• Democracy TV - Democracy TV (pictured) is not exactly a website, but rather is an iTunes-like video player that you download. Through the player, you can find TV channels, search YouTube, download BitTorrents, and subscribe to RSS feeds, podcasts, or video blogs.

Why aren't there more women in science and engineering? According to this Craigslist job ad, the Discovery Channel seems to think that males make the best scientists and engineers. In academia or corporate America, this job ad clearly would be discriminatory and illegal, but when it comes to TV and film, producers are given a free pass to hire based on gender. At least ads like this confirm our suspicions that gender-based discrimination is alive and well in the sciences. In academia, they pretend it doesn't exist or blame the women.

Update: For those who want to know, the series is being produced by Darlow Smithson Productions, a subsidiary of IMG Media.

Update (4/1/07): We emailed a few female science bloggers, such as FairerScience, for their thoughts on this ad last week. After a week of propagating around the internet, science bloggers are beginning to offer their thoughts on the ad. See their replies after the jump.

Physicist Brian Greene from Columbia University and Alan Alda, host of PBS's Scientific American Frontiers are organizing a week-long World Science Festival in New York City to be held in 2008. The plan is for this to be an annual event. The festival website currently consists of only a single homepage, but we'll be watching closely as things unfold. Play the video above to watch Alan Alda and Brian Greene talk about the festival on the Charlie Rose Show with guest host Paul Nurse, President of Rockefeller University.

After a controversial seven year reign, Lawrence Small (finally) resigned yesterday from his post as the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. We've written about the controversy around Small here in the past. The largest controversy arose after a secret contract was orchestrated by Small with Showtime Networks, which gives Showtime the right of first refusal on any works, such as documentary films, that rely upon significant access to Smithsonian collections and staff. The final straw came last week after an internal audit showed that Small, a former banker, spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on luxury goods and services such as chandelier cleaning, private jets, and pool heaters. These perks came on top of his already princely salary of $915,698/year.

It's been almost two weeks since Ze Frank ended The Show, and we don't know what to do with ourselves anymore. Sure, Ze might not have been a science vlogger, but he studied a little neuroscience in college, so we adopted him anyway. Also, he's fun to watch, which is more than you can say for a lot of scientists. Now that Ze is no longer vlogging, he's taken to some old school, daily weblogging. Thursday's blog features a letter exchange begun by Justin VonHagen in Bellevue, Washington, whose water main broke, thereby flooding his yard and threatening the hopes and dreams of children he had hoped to send to college. Not his children, by the way, just random children - maybe you! A very understanding city official sent a letter in reply, stating that the city would be glad to help adjust Justin's water bill, if only Justin would be sure to comply with the Cute Species Act, among other things.

Haha. Isn't that funny. Sigh. We still want video. Ze's homepage has a plethora of links to various multimedia goodies that he created himself. As you will see, Ze is handy with zee Flash. Check out a few of these video links, none of which have much to do with science: Small World, Supahbad, and Condi. Be sure to turn your speakers on.