National Geographic has previously gone inside volcanos (see video clip below) and even inside Vietnam. On Thursday, May 14, 2009, at 8:00 p.m. ET/PT in National Geographic Channel’s (NGC) Disaster Lab: Into the Tornado, veteran storm chaser Tim Samaras heads to America’s heartland during peak twister season to measure the massive force of a supercell storm, one of nature’s most destructive events and will go inside the tornado.
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Last night on Discovery’s Doing Da Vinci the team split up into groups to see who could make the better self-propelled cart.
The two teams made one of wood and one of metal. After months of debating precision cuts, the crew finds out once and for all how accurate parts must be built in order for daVinci’s inventions to work.

If you know anything about the work of Leonardo da Vinci’s you know that his self-propelled car, was a wooden three wheeled cart.
Image Credit: Michael Becker/Discovery Channel (making the wheels for the cart)

Discovery Channel’s six-part world premiere original series, DOING DAVINCI, puts a team of 21st century builders, engineers and historians together to take on one of history’s greatest minds as they attempt to build DaVinci’s weapons once and for all. The series airsMondays at 10PM ET/PT

Tonight’s episode title: Multi-cannon Machine Gun
In the episode airing tonight, the team will take a shot at building a multi-cannon machine gun. Everyone is on high alert throughout the build as they work with hazardous black powder, an unstable substance that could detonate on its own.
Watch below as the team builds DaVinci’s multi cannon tank

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Back in October 2008 I joined along with the Mythbusters to ask viewers from the YouTube community to send in their favorite viral videos.
So you guys submitted your best YouTube myths and the MythBusters listened! Tune-in TONIGHT to find out if your submitted myths were BUSTED, PLAUSIBLE or CONFIRMED!
The MYTHBUSTERS special marks Discovery Channel’s first program partnership initiative with YouTube. Discovery aired a series of spots beginning in September 2008, hosted by MYTHBUSTERS’ Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman, that invited viewers to become a part of the myth-busting crew by posting their favorite viral videos to YouTube.
Over 200 videos were …read more

Captains Sig Hansen & Keith Colburn from Deadliest Catch stop by “Mad Money” to promote season five of “Deadliest Catch” (which began 4/14/09) and to talk about the economics of the Alaskan crab fishing business with Jim Cramer.
The speak about how well the stocks of Red Lobster and other companies are doing. Watch the clip below.

The seas are rougher, the stakes are higher and the intensity has never been stronger as the original, ultimate tough guys of television return in Discovery Channels Emmy-winning DEADLIEST CATCH for an all new season Tuesday, April 14, at 9 PM ET/PT.
“If it ain’t HELL, they ain’t happy!”

In TIME WARP, the invisible become visible as MIT scientist and engineer Jeff Lieberman reveals our world in astonishing and spectacular new ways, by radically changing the lens of time. Time bending and mind blowing, TIME WARP lets viewers see and appreciate things that are normally beyond our senses because they take place much too quickly or slowly.
By employing state of the art camera equipment and editing techniques, Lieberman demonstrates what really happens with every crack, fissure and crash. A punch to the face, the break of a matchstick—each frame will tell an extraordinary story of what really is …read more

ALASKA WEEK, premiering Sunday, April 12 at 9PM ET/PT, features eight all-new programs that will transport viewers to one of the most unforgiving environments on the planet.
See perilous encounters with wildlife caught on tape, watch roughnecks working Alaska’s notorious North Slope drilling and transporting oil, join nine strangers as they hike the frozen interior in search of civilization and return to the Bering Sea with the infamous crab fishermen who earn a living cheating death.
ALASKA WEEK premiere programs include (all times ET/PT):
DIRTY JOBS
Sunday, April 12 at 9 PM
Host Mike Rowe travels to Big Lake, Alaska and pays a visit to …read more

The seas are rougher, the stakes are higher and the intensity has never been stronger as the original, ultimate tough guys of television return in Discovery Channel’s Emmy®-winning DEADLIEST CATCH for an all new season Tuesday, April 14, at 9 PM (ET/PT).
This season Phil and Keith both face serious health issues. While Keith escapes a close call with cancer, Phil finds himself in limbo, not sure if he will even be allowed to fish this year. Following his leg embolism last year, Phil sweats it out on the docks, waiting for what he hopes is the doctors’ thumbs up …read more

Show: Escape to Chimp Eden
Network: Animal Planet
Episode Title: Tony’s Brush with Death
Original Air Date: Friday, April 3rd, 9:00 PM EST/PST
In the premier episode of this season’s Escape to Chimp Eden it’s moving day at Chimp Eden. And we don’t mean that you are shipping out and moving to a new location. Actually, chimps that are new to Eden are usually placed in quarantine for sometime before the move and begin to socialize with general chimp population.
If you recall four-year-old Tony and 7-year-old Sampa, who were rescued from Angola, are ready to leave quarantine and start the integration process with the …read more