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Famed storm chaser killed by multi-vortex Oklahoma tornado
Famed storm chaser Tim Samaras, along with his son Paul and fellow storm chaser Carl Young, were killed on Friday when a multi-vortex tornado hit El Reno, Oklahoma, family members revealed Sunday. Samaras, featured by Discovery Channel’s “Storm Chasers,” appeared on MSNBC’s “The Cycle” just hours before losing his life…
Holiday viewing: Discovery uncovers the early roots of Christmas
The commercial impulses behind Christmas celebrations may date back all the way to the very beginning of the holiday, according to this 2009 Discovery Channel report. While the exact origins of the Christian take on the occasion aren’t known, said Joseph Walsh, who chairs the Classics department at Loyola College,…
Mike Rowe takes ‘dirty job’ campaigning for Romney but won’t mention his name
Discovery Channel personality Mike Rowe joined Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney’s campaign in Ohio on Wednesday but during at least one campaign speech in Bedford, the “Dirty Jobs” host didn’t even bother to utter the candidate’s name. “The first time I was here, I think, was 2004,” Rowe said after…
Mythbuster Adam Savage: Anti-piracy bill would ‘destroy the Internet’
The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and its sister bill in the Senate, the PROTECT IP Act, are not very popular right now, thanks in large part to a growing outcry from some of the strongest voices on the Internet, from the founders of Google, Reddit, eBay, Craigslist, Wikipedia and…
Discovery Channel’s marijuana reality show still a go, despite massive tax bill
Despite recently receiving an enormous tax bill from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Oakland’s Harborside Health Center will still be the subject of a Discovery Channel reality show this winter. “As they say, the show must go on,” Joshua Weinberg, Discovery Channel’s vice president of communications, explained in an email…
With latest ruling, IRS threatens to crush the whole medical marijuana industry
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is on the verge of shutting down California’s largest medical marijuana dispensary, and with it potentially the entire semi-legal pot industry. The Harborside Health Center in Oakland — which was going to be the subject of a Discovery Channel reality show called “Weed Wars” —…
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