MSNBC Kicks Off Geek Week

MSNBC’s “The Rachel Maddow Show” celebrates “Geek Week” all this week, beginning tonight with Energy Secretary Steven Chu, the highest ranking “geek” in the Obama Administration; can the geeks rescue us from America’s dependence on foreign oil?

Other highlights of “Geek Week” include: Robert Wallace, a former CIA agent who reveals the secrets of a once-classified CIA manual written by a former magician; a tour of the Iwo Jima helicopter carrier in honor of Fleet Week here in New York City; a geek-level tour of the massive rebuilding project underway at Ground Zero; geek-rapper Baba Brinkman, whose most recent project is “The Rap Guide to Evolution”; Infrastructure! – a trip underground with the sandhogs to tour the construction of the Second Avenue subway line, an infrastructure project more than 50 years behind schedule; and Dr. Jim Mead of East Tennessee State University, who oversees the largest collection of prehistoric dung in the world.