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 [...]

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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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