Taking a leaf out of Pasco Phronesis’s (David Bruggeman) book, I am announcing an upcoming TV science program on Weds., Dec. 8, 2010. From the Matt Roush Dec. 5 2010 article on the TV Guide website,
Mythbusters (Wednesday, 9/8c, Discovery)
In this installment, Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman are serving at the pleasure of the president: Barack Obama, who has recruited the Mythbusters for the White House campaign to involve more kids in science. President Obama appears in this episode to challenge the guys to replicate a myth they’ve tried and failed at several times before: proving if Greek mathematician Archimedes could really have set fire to a Roman fleet using only mirrors and sunlight. This time, though, they’ll have 500 students helping in the experiment.
I think this sounds like a great experiment and I imagine this programme will appear on the Canadian version of the Discovery Channel at some time in the future but, sadly, not this week.