MythBusters is an American television series on the Discovery Channel starring special effects experts Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman, who use their skills and expertise to test the validity of various rumors and urban legends in popular...
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MythBusters is an American television series on the Discovery Channel starring special effects experts Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman, who use their skills and expertise to test the validity of various rumors and urban legends in popular culture and science. The show is narrated by Robert Lee and is filmed primarily in the San Francisco Bay Area. Find more news and information about MythBusters here.
The Mythbusters (Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage) recently created a paintball gun with 1,100 barrels to demonstrate the differences between a traditional CPU and a GPU at nVidia's NVISION show.... Read Full Story
Fans of the Discovery Channel series will be pleased to hear that the sixth season of “Mythbusters” will premiere on January 16 at 9 PM (ET).
If you’ve never caught the series, it’s certainly worth a look now that new programming is becoming a thing of the past with the writers’ strike. On “Mythbusters,” Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage (two special effects guys) and their scientific helpers, known as the “Build Team,” look to debunk urban legends through experimentation.
Together, the... Read Full Story
I finally caught an episode of the new Discovery Channel series Smash Lab last night. As one would expect, I started to compare it to Mythbusters immediately, since it became obvious that Smash Lab was nothing more then a clone of Mythbusters with a “save the planet” spin.
There are four main characters, as the show puts it, The Designer, The Engineer, The Scientist and The “Ideas Guy”. A couple of the guys are dressed in Metro-Sexual clothing and have two days of scruff. They are... Read Full Story
As those of us here in Britain-land have been enjoying a day off of work, it seems like our overweight, gas guzzling cousins across the pond have also been slacking off today - basically, it’s looking like we officially have a Slow News Day on our hands here.
So to stave off the boredom, here are some lovely homemade crocheted toys of Mythbusters hosts Adam and Jamie. What geek in their right mind doesn’t love Mythbusters?
Exactly. Back to my day off.
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"We only use ten per cent of our brains." We all grew up hearing that, and many of us still take it for granted. Didn't you ever wonder why we have so much unused gray matter upstairs? In fact, that popular belief (current as early as 1907) was put to rest a long time ago. Although certain functions may be confined to certain areas of the brain, PET and MRI scans show the we use the entirety of our brain, all the time. Constant repetition makes the myth seem real, but it’s just not so... Read Full Story
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What happens when you mix science, and special effects experience, and then add them to Cable TV?The Discovery Channel's run away hit--The MythBusters.But who are the Mythbusters? Stick around and find out! Read Full Story
