Hey guys-
I’m going to be out tonight for a family event, but don’t let that stop you from checking out Shark Week’s last 2008 premiere - Mysteries of the Shark Coast at 9pm. I’ll be recording it and reviewing the show tonight as soon as I get home. Here’s the full Discovery Channel preview:
MYSTERIES OF [...]

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Think Progress » Report: McCain Received $881,450 From Big Oil Since He Announced Support For Offshore Drilling.
Let me give you a hint: the people who paid him $800,000 dollars, in two months, to do it.
Makes you wonder if there’s any truth to this “Oil for Freedom” and “lower gas prices” rhetoric at all, or if [...]

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Those of you who watch The Daily Show will already know that John McCain had planned to counter Barack Obama’s big speech in Berlin with his own media circus with an energy speech delivered after flying onto an offshore oil rig, ala President Bush’s famous “Mission Accomplished” speech.
You also know that a Hurricane conspired to [...]

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Enjoy the classics and the replay of the Mythbusters Shark Special 2008 at 9pm EST - check out www.SharkWeek.com for the full schedule.
I’ll be back tomorrow night to cover the last premiere:
MYSTERIES OF THE SHARK COAST
Premieres Thursday, July 31, at 9 p.m. ET/PT.
Australia’s northeastern coast is a hotbed for shark activity. Its tropical seas are [...]

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The second 2008 Premiere tonight on Shark Week: “How Not to Become Shark Bait”
Tiger Beach
Oh, this looks good: “Let’s go to Tiger Beach, chum the water, and jump in on surfboards.” Excellent.
They’re starting, very smartly, in a shark cage. The guys had planned to provoke a shark attack when there were just lemon sharks in [...]

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The next big Shark Week debut tonight is “Greenland Shark Quest,” an episode of “Dirty Jobs with Mike Rowe.”
In this episode, Mike travels to the far north to tag along with scientists trying to study Greenland sharks below the ice.
It looks awfully cold - sounds like Mike misses last year’s trip to the Bahamas.
The Greenland Shark
The [...]

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Shark Week continues on the Discovery Channel tonight with two new shows:
DIRTY JOBS: GREENLAND SHARK QUEST
Premieres Tuesday, July 29, at 9 p.m. ET/PT.
DIRTY JOBS’ Mike Rowe, who travels north to the edge of the Arctic Circle in search of the mysterious Greenland shark. These large sharks are slow-moving behemoths, and learning more about them [...]

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SURVIVING SHARKS
Premieres Monday, July 28, at 9 p.m. ET/PT.
Survivorman’s Les Stroud travels to the Bahamas and South Africa to test whether the behavior of Caribbean reef sharks and great whites changes depending upon the time of day. While in South Africa, Les and marine biologist Jeremiah Sullivan conduct an analysis of the great white’s bite, [...]

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I’ve been torn ever since this blog started about how much to engage in political discussions on Science Says:
On one hand, I don’t want to alienate anyone because of my personal politics. It seems to me that America is deeply divided right now between two contrarian political philosophies, but environmental problems are everyone’s problems - [...]

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MYTHBUSTERS: SHARK SPECIAL
Premieres Sunday, July 27, at 9 p.m. ET/PT. Get a reminder.
Do dogs attract sharks? Do the vibrations caused by a flapping injured fish attract sharks? Does chili powder repel sharks? And hosts Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman create the ultimate SHARK WEEK build – a 16-foot-long robo-shark!
Allright, here are the big myths they’re [...]

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