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We can't all take helicopter tours of the world's most beautiful places while on fantasy dates with highly coveted bachelors, but we can get stunning bird's-eye views courtesy of the great urban jungles stitched together in Wide Web World. The video was created by Paul Wex using 3D maps from Nokia Here.

Take an aerial tour of the greatest sights in Sydney, Toronto, San Francisco, Chicago, LA, and more in this creative take on 3D mapping. Wide Web World was recently chosen as a Vimeo Staff Pick, a high honor considering all the incredible offerings available on the site.

Paul also created the musical soundtrack to the video and is offering the MP3 to PayPal donors with a $1 minimum donation. If you enjoyed Wide World Web, then check out Paul's entire body of video work, especially Big Little World, which features spectacular footage of the Seychelles Islands.

Stephen Hawking is an extraordinary man — he's a groundbreaking physicist and bestselling author with a motor neurone disease that leaves him almost entirely paralyzed. For the first time ever, the most famous living scientist is telling his story in his own words.

Hawking, which will air on PBS later this year, offers a look into Stephen's life like never before and features some of the scientist's A-list fans like Eugene "Buzz" Aldrin and Benedict Cumberbatch.

The film biopic was chosen as one of SXSW's headlining films and premiered at the festival earlier this month. Hawking is a complete look at the man behind A Brief History of Time: his daily routine, his lectures, his research, and his caretakers.

"If you had asked me 40 years ago if I ever thought I would be talking in front of a sell-out crowd and be a part of popular culture, I would have laughed," said Hawking. "But if my getting involved in this has encouraged people to question our universe, then I am happy [to have done it]."

Watch the moving trailer for Hawking after the break

We're hyped for the May premiere of Star Trek Into Darkness thanks to the film's numerous trailers, and the latest ode to J.J. Abrams's take on Captain Kirk and crew has us eagerly following the stop-motion drama from a Lego perspective.

Modeled scene for scene after the Dec. 17 trailer, watch the Lego Enterprise crew run from peril and question Benedict Cumberbatch's character's motives (including the through-the-glass Lego hand touch), with plenty of lens flares for authenticity.

Want to know what being a woman in tech is all about? How about being a woman in tech in . . . Africa? For this year's International Women's Day, we're celebrating leading ladies around the world by tuning in to the voices of female trailblazers in technology. Google is live streaming the Voices Global Conference, a 24-hour event hosted by Global Tech Women.

All of the Voices Global Conference sessions feature women working in computer science and will be available for free throughout the day. In addition to the streaming videos, Google will be uploading new episodes of its Women Techmakers series to give more visibility to female developers at the top and provide role models for the next generation of engineers.

The company is providing this online platform for trendsetting techmakers to "help women and other audiences around the world learn more and get inspired about the contributions women are making to technology and computer science."

Check Diversity at Google's YouTube channel for new live streams posted all day long. If you want to jump in right away, hang out with influential female African entrepreneurs and Internet pioneers at Google Africa after the break.

Should building a LEGO International Space Station (ISS) in space be a dream of yours (and why wouldn't it be?), you'll first need to find your way outside the Earth's atmosphere. Lucky for flight engineer Satoshi Furukawa, he is part of ISS Expedition 2829.

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut recreated a LEGO version of the International Space Station while in the actual International Space Station (so meta) and uploaded a video to show us Earth-bound humans how it's done.

Satoshi emptied all 162 LEGO pieces in a contained plastic bag (because, you know, things fly around in zero gravity) and assembled the entire structure by hand. It took him over two hours to complete, before then releasing the mini ISS into "orbit."

As Satoshi explains in the video, the International Space Station was the result of a collaboration between the US, Canada, Japan, Europe, and Russia and built piece by piece, much like "how you put together LEGO bricks on Earth." Aww.

Get your own LEGO International Space Station set ($165), and watch the astronaut build the entire spacecraft in miniature after the break.

The superpower of the 21st century is coding, according to the Silicon Valley superstar cast in a new documentary short called What Most Schools Don't Teach. In the film, Microsoft founder Bill Gates, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Twitter founder Jack Dorsey, and more tech leaders discuss how they became enamored with computing and why coding is so important in today's world.

Lesleyy Chilcott, producer of An Inconvenient Truth, directed the featurette for Code.Org, a nonprofit dedicated to promoting computer science education.

What Schools Don't Teach also features some not-so-usual suspects like Miami Heat forward Chris Bosh, who studied computer imaging at Georgia Tech, and Will.i.am of the Black Eyed Peas who thinks that "great coders are the real rock stars" of the world.

Get inspired to code and watch the full nine-minute Code.org film after the break.

On NOVA's Secret Life of Scientists, actress Mayim Bialik of The Big Bang Theory talks about her affection for neurons and being in love with every aspect of the universe. We already knew that Mayim was a woman in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math), but we didn't know that she wasn't always confident in the subject.

"When I was young . . . I always loved the concept of science but never thought I was cut out for it," Mayim said, even though she earned a doctorate in neuroscience at UCLA years later. "I assumed there was something about me, that I wasn't made for it."

In the video, the actress and author talks about how she first became interested in the subject: through her on-set biology tutor who "taught the cell as if it was Picasso's most famous painting."

See a picture of Mayim in the lab and watch the clip from Secret Life of Scientists after the break.

In 1966, Colonel Jerry Carr was one of 19 astronauts selected by NASA to train for human spaceflight — and this is his story. In the TedEd lesson animated by Sharon Graham, Jerry looks back at his career with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, during which he spent over 2,000 hours in space, orbiting the Earth over 1,000 times.

The commander of the final Skylab space station mission discusses sleeping on the floor of Lunar module number six, the desert, water, and jungle survival training of his early days, and watching Apollo 12 get struck by lightning.

Watch this animated short of Jerry Carr's illustrious space sailing career, then take a quiz about the life of astronauts and learn even more NASA trivia at TedEd.

The world's most popular Internet search engine wants to become the world's biggest brain — should we be concerned? Google and the World Brain, which screened at the Sundance Film Festival, follows the company's ambitious project to scan every book in the world.

Google's intent is to create a higher form of intelligence, what H.G. Wells called the "World Brain" in a 1937 essay, but not everyone agrees. The project is met by a substantial resistance from authors across the world who claim that Google is infringing on copyright.

In the following teaser trailer, interviewees claim that Google is creating a "world brain scheme" and a "monopoly of access to knowledge." While making data widely accessible is an honorable endeavor, we're definitely intrigued by the Internet drama that unfolded when the book scanning project was taken to a New York courtroom in 2011. Keep your eye out for this tech documentary in the coming year.

Watch the trailer for Google and the World Brain after the break.