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MythBusters, Discovery Channels hit show which attempts to test popular legends, misconceptions, and tropes, is coming back on April 6th for their eighth year of bringing science with a heavy dose of explosives to television. Co-host Kari Byron started as an intern at fellow host Jamie Hynemans special-effects shop M5 Industries at practically the same moment the show first began filming. From her first appearance...
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Georgia-by-way-of-Alabamas Drive-By Truckers are by nature what so many bands today aspire to be by artifice: authentic, American, rootsy rocknroll. They first hit the national radar with their third album, Southern Rock Opera, an ambitious double-album which used the story of Lynyrd Skynyrd as a metaphor for the decline of the South as a whole. Ever since, even while weathering lineup and label changes,...
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Michael Moorcock is among the greatest of all writers alive today -- irrespective of genre. Alan Moore wrote, in his introduction to Moorcocks Into the Media Web, Look up the word author in a dictionary and youll find a photograph of Michael Moorcock. At an age when most are barely learning to drive, Moorcock wrote and edited for magazines. He first attained fame (and...
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Cameron Stewart is a familiar name to comics fans. He has been working in the industry for years, but it was 2004's Seaguy, a Vertigo miniseries from writer Grant Morrison, that put him on the map. Since then there have been several more of high profile projects including a sequel to Seaguy entitled Seven Soldiers: Guardian, a story arc on Batman and Robin (also written...
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We all know product placement happens in movies. Its when you see a can of Coke instead of a generic soda, or CGI a corporate logo into a Times Square background. The existence of product placement is not a mystery or scandal, but Morgan...

Director Tom Shadyac is playing up the fact that the director of Ace Ventura: Pe...

Dr. Steven Novella eats, sleeps, and breathes science. An academic clinical neurologist by day at the Yale University of Medicine, he spends much of the rest of his time promoting science and rationality through the massively popular weekly podcast he hosts, The...

We all know product placement happens in movies. You see the results when a can of Coke is seen in a shot instead of a generic soda, or a corporate logo comes into focus in a scene played out in Times Square.

The existence of product placement is not a mystery or scandal, but Morgan Spurlock wanted to put it to a real test. Big...
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Dr. Steven Novella eats, sleeps, and breathes science. An academic clinical neurologist by day at the Yale University of Medicine, he spends much of the rest of his time promoting science and rationality through the massively popular weekly podcast he hosts, The Skeptics Guide to the Universe, his own blog, Neurologica, and the influential blog he founded, Science-Based Medicine. He is also...
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Director Tom Shadyac is playing up the fact that the director of Ace Ventura: Pet Detective has made a philosophical documentary. It shouldnt be such a shock to people. Anyone deserves a voice in matters of humanity, and someone whos already in touch with how to inspire laughter and happiness doubly so.

A bicycle accident left Shadyac with Post Concussion Syndrome. The resulting hypersensitivity to...
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Neil Strauss has a talent for honing in on the very essence of who a person is. It's an attribute that has served him well as a interviewer for publications such as The New York Times and Rolling Stone, as a writer penning biographical books with the likes of Mtley Cre (The Dirt) and Jenna Jameson...