You see, I was a study nerd.

And of course, this is nerd heaven, right?

I'm not just an ichthyologist, I'm a bona fide fish nerd.

And to a fish nerd, this is some pretty exciting stuff.

When does a nerd turn into Asperger, which is just mild autism?

The reason he never made any of them, he's a classic nerd.

And I know that this tags me as a bit of a nerd, but ...

From the point of view of a public health nerd, junkies are doing dumb things.

And I'm pretty much the one who figured it out, because I was a nerd.

I went from desk dwelling computer nerd to the kind of guy who bikes to work.

The only thing singing today would be the facts, for I have truly embraced by inner nerd.

I went from desk dwelling computer nerd to the kind of guy who bikes to work for fun.

Some people think I am the nerd Tony Soprano, and in response, I have ordered a bulletproof pocket protector.

We want all of you here, church America, corporate America, Microsoft America, Apple America, Coke America, Pepsi America, nerd America, noisy America.

Now, if I take out my public health nerd glasses here and look at these data, it seems like a no brainer, doesn't it?

As a fish nerd, I have to laugh, because you know they don't call us fish nerds for nothing we actually do get excited about finding a new dorsal spine in a guppy.

It's a free program you download for your Mac or PC, and you make free phone calls anywhere in the world The downside is that you have to wear a headset like a nerd.

Human beings have been campaigning against inequality and poverty for 3,000 years. But this journey is accelerating. Bono embraces his inner nerd and shares inspiring data that shows the end of poverty is in sight if we can harness the momentum.

Armed with bracing logic, wit and her public health nerd glasses, Elizabeth Pisani reveals the myriad of inconsistencies in today's political systems that prevent our dollars from effectively fighting the spread of HIV. Her research with at risk populations from junkies in prison to sex workers on the street in Cambodia demonstrates the sometimes counter intuitive measures that could stall the spread of this devastating disease.

Now, rational is the dominant paradigm in public health, and if you put your public health nerd glasses on, you'll see that if we give people the information that they need about what's good for them and what's bad for them, if you give them the services that they can use to act on that information, and a little bit of motivation, people will make rational decisions and live long and healthy lives.