‘Big Bang Theory’ Star Mayim Bialik Experiments With Video
by Laurie Sullivan @lauriesullivan, August 8, 2016
Mayim Bialik, who portrays Amy Farrah Fowler, the nerdy scientist and love interest of Dr. Sheldon Cooper on the CBS hit comedy “The Big Bang Theory” will go to work this week on two videos for her newly launched YouTube channel Grok Nation, which supports a Web site with the same name.
One video will focus on how it hurts to be different even as a grownup, and the other on her hyper sensitivity to all emotional things. Bialik also plans to announce on her site within the next couple of weeks a book deal with a publisher. The topics cover those most interested in by girls.
Bialik recently started a YouTube video channel to support Grok Nation, a site she founded in 2015. The channel has released a handful of videos using the Vlogbrother’s creative format. The idea is to take an interesting or compelling topic, hopefully funny and touching, she says, and pack all the information into a mere three minutes, she told Media Daily News.
So far it’s been about testing the waters to find out what fans want to see and learn. “We tried to do this so the videos would have a lighter countenance, but no, they want super heavy,” she said. “I made one about going camping with my ex-husband and our kids that was a little longer.”
In the past any videos on Grok Nation were shot on an iPhone such as the one about shopping for Passover with her children in a grocery store, she told #BlogHer16 attendees.
Bialik, a real-life nerd with a Ph.D. in neuroscience from UCLA and a self-proclaimed “crunchy granola hippy mom,” says the “point is not to make science sexy, it’s to make science for everyone.”
With that in mind, she focused her dissertation on hypothalamic activity in patients with Prader–Willi syndrome. It was prompted by her love of working with those with special needs. “Obsessive compulsive disorder is something I identify with very strongly, so I chose to focus on that, but it was more because of this syndrome of developmental delay,” she said.
While most of her time is spent working on “The Big Bang Theory,” she does teach and do public advocacy to bring attention to Prader–Willi syndrome. Bialik partnered with the National Alliance on Mental Illness to raise awareness and started a large charity campaign.
Bialik raises money for charity, but refuses to take advertising dollars for Grok Nation. “It’s the first thing any marketing or business person asks, ‘how are you going to make money’,” she said. “I really wanted the site to evolve as a cerebral place for ideas to live before thinking about that.”
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