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!”

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

Could you survive the cold, frigid wilderness that is Alaska? Well these nine daring people who abandoned civilization to test their ability to survive in one of the most physically and mentally tough environments in the world said that they could.
Over the course of their month-long expedition they had to forage for food, find shelter, and just try to survive with decreasing daylight and encounters with wild animals.
They weren’t being offered a million dollar prize or seven-figure job at the end of their journey. Their reward was the chance to have a life-changing experience — the potential to never see …read more

In 2007, Odyssey Marine Exploration (OME) announced that they had made an historic discovery in the Atlantic Ocean – seventeen tons of coins, worth an estimated half a billion dollars.
On Thursday, April 2 at 10PM ET/PT, Discovery Channel will unveil the gripping drama of the “Black Swan” as it unfolded behind the scenes, from the moment the coins were discovered to the ensuing international legal battle over ownership.
Filmed entirely in high definition, Battle For The Black Swan will air as a special 12th episode – and season finale — of Discovery’s TREASURE QUEST series.
Image Credit: Discovery Channel

Show: American Loggers
Network: Discovery Channel
Episode Title: Stuck in the Muck
Original Air Date: Friday, March 20 10:00 PM EST/PST
During the last episode of American Loggers, the bothers were faced with a hurricane and so now during this episode they are working on the clean up and getting the trucks through despite all the mud and rain.
In the video clip below one of the young Pelletier nephews is learning how to keep his dump truck from “playing in the mud.”

We also see Matthew, who is a third-generation crew member, talks about how coming back to the woods has changed his life.