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Daily #DadJoke for March 30, 2016

March 30, 2016December 13, 2017Judd Schorr

Daily #DadJoke for March 30, 2016: On this day in history, the shovel was invented…

Rediscovering ‘The Secret Life of Machines’

September 15, 2015Roger Mullins2

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.

‘What Could Possibly Go Wrong?’ on Discovery Tonight – Exclusive Clip!

February 14, 2015Matt Blum2

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.

Send Your Kids Back to School With Shark Week – Win a Backpack and Lunchbox!

August 14, 2014November 23, 2017Matt Blum1

Enter to win a Shark Week backpack and lunchbox from Discovery, and be sure to watch Shark Week 2014 before it goes away!

This Week In Tears

May 28, 2014Ruth Suehle

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.

Tonight: The MythBusters (Awesomely) Tackle Three Star Wars Myths!

January 4, 2014Matt Blum1

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.

The MythBusters Take on Breaking Bad Tonight!

August 12, 2013November 23, 2017Matt Blum3

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!

Congratulations to Our Africa Giveaway Winners!

March 1, 2013John Booth

Thanks again to everyone who entered our Africa giveaway. This amazing Discovery / BBC series is now available on DVD and Blu-ray.

6 TV Networks That Aren’t What They Started Out to Be

October 10, 2012Ruth Suehle

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.

Can You Hear the Higgs?

July 12, 2012Helene McLaughlin

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.

Meet Pluto’s Hidden Moons

July 12, 2012Helene McLaughlin

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.

What Finding the Higgs Boson Means

July 3, 2012Helene McLaughlin

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.

What’s Up With Tranquillityite?

January 8, 2012December 16, 2017Laura Grace Weldon

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 […]

Forget Football — Watch Some Punkin Chunkin Tonight

November 24, 2011Ken Denmead

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, …

Penn & Teller Tell a Lie Is MythBusters Turned Sideways

October 5, 2011Matt Blum

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.

Samuel L. Jackson and Discovery’s Curiosity Team Up to Destroy the World

September 18, 2011Matt Blum

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 …

The Scoop on Through the Wormhole With Morgan Freeman

August 3, 2011December 14, 2017admin

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” …

Two Apps to Enhance Discovery’s Shark Week

August 2, 2011Tony Sims

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 …

Shuttle Countdown T-7 Days: A Tribute to Discovery

July 1, 2011admin

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 …

New Heavy Elements Need Geeky Names (GeekDad Weekly Rewind)

June 11, 2011admin

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 …

New Heavy Elements Need Geeky Names

June 8, 2011Kevin Makice

Killer Robots With Grant Imahara, Tonight on Science Channel

May 30, 2011Anton Olsen

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 …

Pretend You’re an Astronaut and Wake Up To Shatner

March 8, 2011Ruth Suehle

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 […]

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