Daily #DadJoke for March 30, 2016
Daily #DadJoke for March 30, 2016: On this day in history, the shovel was invented…
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Tag: Discovery
Rediscovering ‘The Secret Life of Machines’
This is the first in a series of posts revisiting ‘The Secret Life of Machines,’ a how-things-work program originally broadcast in the UK on the Channel 4 and later in the United States by the Discovery Channel. This episode examines the history and refinement of the vacuum cleaner, with a look at electric motors, electromagnetism, and the science of airflow.
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‘What Could Possibly Go Wrong?’ on Discovery Tonight – Exclusive Clip!
Discovery has a new show with two guys building things, trying out stuff they’ve seen online, and having a blast. No, it’s not MythBusters, but it’s well worth watching.
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Send Your Kids Back to School With Shark Week – Win a Backpack and Lunchbox!
Enter to win a Shark Week backpack and lunchbox from Discovery, and be sure to watch Shark Week 2014 before it goes away!
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This Week In Tears
Does it ever seem like all of the unrelated people in your life are talking about the same thing? For Ruth this week, it’s tears. Tears in True Blood, tears on a space shuttle, and more.
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Tonight: The MythBusters (Awesomely) Tackle Three Star Wars Myths!
Are you a Star Wars fan? A MythBusters fan? If you’re either or both, find out if you should watch tonight’s Star Wars: Revenge of the Myth special.
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The MythBusters Take on Breaking Bad Tonight!
Tonight on Discovery Channel you can see an excellent special episode of MythBusters that tests two Breaking Bad-inspired myths. See an explosive clip here!
Continue ReadingCongratulations to Our Africa Giveaway Winners!
Thanks again to everyone who entered our Africa giveaway. This amazing Discovery / BBC series is now available on DVD and Blu-ray.
Continue Reading6 TV Networks That Aren’t What They Started Out to Be
More than a few TV networks aren’t what they set out to be. Here are six, along with a few videos to take you back to the way things were.
Continue ReadingCan You Hear the Higgs?
Have you ever wondered what one of the greatest scientific discoveries of our time sounds like? Wonder no longer! After the announcement of the Higgs boson discoveries last week, researcher Domenico Vicinanza immediately went to work sonifiying the data. Now that the general populous can finally hear what the Higgs boson evidence sounds like, hopefully all of us can understand the data leading to this momentous discovery. Could the mysteries of the universe be holding a waltz beat? How about a jazz rhythm? R&B? Pop? Country? Turns out the score has a distinctly latin flair, similar to a habanera beat.
Continue ReadingMeet Pluto’s Hidden Moons
While Pluto may have been demoted to dwarf planet status, it seems that the little celestial body has plenty more secrets to share. A fifth moon was found during a July 7th infrared observation, using the Hubble Space Telescope’s Wide Field Camera 3.
Continue ReadingWhat Finding the Higgs Boson Means
There has been a rise in speculation from the international physics community about the contents of a press conference that has been called by scientists at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), to be held at 9am Geneva time (3am EST) on July 4, 2012. Physicists expect that the announcement will be positive proof of the Higgs boson particle and a successful mission for the team. The anticipation reached a frenzied state yesterday when scientists from the Tevatron at Fermilab in Illinois announced that they had found significant supporting evidence for the existence of the Higgs boson.
Continue ReadingWhat’s Up With Tranquillityite?
A moon mineral has been discovered in Australia. Tranquillityite was named after the Sea of Tranquility, site of Apollo 11’s 1969 landing site. Like the other two minerals found in rocks brought back from that mission, it was long assumed to be unique to the Moon’s surface. Well, until now. We know science […]
Continue ReadingForget Football — Watch Some Punkin Chunkin Tonight
While most may be happy to get their post-holiday meal physics lesson from the mock-gladiatorial combat represented by college or pro football, can we suggest something a little geekier? Tonight at 8:00pm Eastern/Pacific, 60% of the MythBusters (that’s Kari, Grant, …
Continue ReadingPenn & Teller Tell a Lie Is MythBusters Turned Sideways
Skeptics, rejoice! MythBusters no longer is the only show that aims to teach its viewers to question their perceptions of reality before deciding what to believe.
Continue ReadingSamuel L. Jackson and Discovery’s Curiosity Team Up to Destroy the World
Curiosity, the recent addition to the Discovery Channel’s lineup, has already taught viewers (of all ages, but primarily kids) many interesting things. The latest episode premieres tonight, and promises to be a great one — because even if the content …
Continue ReadingThe Scoop on Through the Wormhole With Morgan Freeman
Morgan Freeman is a very curious man. So curious, in fact, that he took the role as the host of the Discovery’s Through the Wormhole series on Science. Freeman asks some very difficult and, as Commander Data would say, “intriguing” …
Continue ReadingTwo Apps to Enhance Discovery’s Shark Week
I hope everyone is having a great Shark Week on the Discovery Channel! If your family is enjoying Shark Week and you happen to have an iPad, iPhone or iPod Touch here are a couple of apps I have discovered …
Continue ReadingShuttle Countdown T-7 Days: A Tribute to Discovery
The Discovery space shuttle was the third space rated orbiter in the NASA fleet after Columbia and Challenger. Before its retirement earlier this year, it was the shuttle fleet’s leader at 39 missions. Discovery was named after three very historic …
Continue ReadingNew Heavy Elements Need Geeky Names (GeekDad Weekly Rewind)
The journey to gain official status can be a long trip. Take Elements 114 and 116, for example. First created in a lab a dozen years ago, the isotopes were the focus of a few collaborative teams of scientists working …
Continue ReadingNew Heavy Elements Need Geeky Names
The journey to gain official status can be a long trip. Take Elements 114 and 116, for example. First created in a lab a dozen years ago, the isotopes were the focus of a few collaborative teams of scientists working …
Continue ReadingKiller Robots With Grant Imahara, Tonight on Science Channel
Grant Imahara of MythBusters serves as tour guide for Killer Robots: RoboGames 2011, guiding viewers through the International Robogames Competition in San Mateo, Calif. Hailed by many as the pop-culture robot king, Imahara has a long history with robotics: he was an …
Continue ReadingPretend You’re an Astronaut and Wake Up To Shatner
Unless you have a very specific interest in space program journalism, the NASA news feed is usually on the dry side–headlines like “Crew wraps up flight” or “Guy you never heard of just left his job.” But Monday when I got the NASA email, I got Captain Kirk, because the Discovery crew got to wake […]
Continue ReadingListen to the Shuttle Launch With a Side of Ambient Tunes
The Space Shuttle Discovery will be taking its final journey this Thursday (barring the need to call it out of mothballs in the future to divert a marauding asteroid). I love to watch space launches, but where I work I …
Continue ReadingThe Top 10 Celebrities We’d Like to See as Discovery’s Chief Shark Officer
It’s not every day an email like this one shows up in your inbox: HELP WANTED: Discovery Channel Celebrity Chief Shark Officer Do you know someone who would be perfect as the next Discovery Channel Chief Shark Officer? Please help …
Continue Reading12th Day of Geekmas
Congratulations to Ralph Gill, the winner of our 11th Day of Geekmas prize pack. With prizes from DiscoveryStore.com, Nyko, Sony, Insane Ian, Marc Gunn and an almost ridiculously expansive collection of BBC America swag, it is truly a hard act …
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All hail Josh Alkire, the winner of our 10th Day of Geekmas prize pack. Please enjoy your Crazy Putty, Hoth LEGO set and fantastic selection of Element cases content in the knowledge that you experienced Geekmas to the fullest. The …
Continue Reading4th Day of Geekmas
Congratulations to our 3rd Day of Geekmas prize pack winner Luke McKean. I can only imagine the amazing things possible when you combine your prizes – a copy of Activision’s Tony Hawk: Shred and a container of Crazy Aaron’s Putty. …
Continue ReadingGet This Picture to J. Jonah Jameson on the Double!
Scientists in Madagascar have discovered a species of spider that could give Peter Parker a run for his money. The Darwin bark spider can evidently create webs up to 82 feet in length (and over bodies of water, as in …
Continue ReadingHelp Planet Green Name Their New Technology Show
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