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MythBusters Get Disgusting To Protect You From Swine Flu
9:59AM Wilson Rothman | We love high-speed photography, but seeing Adam Savage blow a juicy sneeze in super slow-mo is enough to make us smash our EX-F1s. Still, it’s for a noble cause: Awareness and avoidance of H1N1, aka Swine Flu. [Discovery]
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Penn Swallows Fire In Super-Slow-Mo On Discovery’s Time Warp
8:30AM Andi Wang | Here’s a peek at this week’s episode of Time Warp, where hosts Jeff and Matt join up with magicians Penn and Teller in Las Vegas and get a behind the scenes tour of Cirque de Soleil’s O. More »
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Weaponisers: Remote-Controlled Argmoured Cars Fiht Each Other To the Death
10:00AM Wilson Rothman | Discovery Channel’s new Weaponisers mini-series sounds pretty insane: Dudes armour-plate cars, mount them with machine guns and rockets, then hide in bunkers, operating them by remote control in an ultimate to-the-death Carmageddon. Oh my. More »
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MythBusters Flip Bus, Plow Into Fruit Stand For Benefit of Mankind
10:40AM Wilson Rothman | We asked the MythBusters for teasers of the new season, starting tomorrow at 9pm and running every Wednesday on the Discovery Channel. What we got doesn’t disappoint: Hair-raising bus wreck above, Hollywood-style fruit-stand crash below. More »
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Discovery Channel’s Time Warp: Slo-Mo Videos of Crazy Sh*t Go Primetime
11:20PM John Mahoney | Overheard in a recent Discovery Channel producer’s meeting: “Hey–here’s a crazy idea: you know how videos of things happening in slow motion tend to blow up the internet? Let’s make that into a whole show. And in HD to boot. Face punches, raw chicken exploding, champagne blowing its top (the more latent sexuality the better!)–that kind of thing. We’ll start it off next week, and yeah, we’ll put some pretty great interactive slo-mo videos on our website that can be controlled frame-by-frame. I don’t know about you guys but I’m sold!” [Discovery Channel] More »
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