Tag Archive: mythbusters

May 21

Adam Savage on Working Hard, Playing Harder, and Trying Not to Lose His Lunch

He’s experienced colossal failure; been shocked by 100,000 volts, “mythbusted” with President Obama, and made a living making stuff from dumpster dives. Adam Savage, the always entertaining and inspiring Mythbusters co-host once again gave a keynote address to an eager crowd at this year’s Maker Faire, speaking for over 45 minutes and taking a number of …

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Oct 07

A Floating Question: Mythbusters Take On a ‘Titanic’ Problem

The Discovery Channel’s widely popular science entertainment television series Mythbusters returns tonight and takes on an interesting challenge in collaboration with Titanic director James Cameron. At the end of the movie, Rose (Kate Winslet) is saved by laying atop a plank from the ship’s wreckage, leaving Jack (Leonardo DiCaprio) to perish in the icy waters of …

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Aug 31

FORA.tv Special: Celebrate Labor Day With an Exclusive Offer

Celebrate Labor Day Weekend with a special offer on all of our premium single video programs. Whether you’re interested in science, technology, philosophy or the arts, FORA.tv’s broad selection of content feature some of the greatest researchers, inventors, thinkers and creatives in the world today. Click any of the videos below for a sneak preview …

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May 20

Adam Savage of Mythbusters: “The Cool Things I’ve Built”

As he does every year Adam Savage of Mythbuster fame made his grand appearance at the Maker Faire Bay Area, the great gathering of inventors, engineers, artists and other people who love to make things. This year Savage tackled why he and the 50,000 or so people who showed up at the faire spend time, …

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May 16

Hold on to Your Tesla Coils: Maker Faire This Weekend Starring Adam Savage

This weekend on FORA.tv, we present one of our most popular live events: the Maker Faire Bay Area 2012. There really isn’t anything quite like it: Put together a bunch of mind-bending inventors, erudite, but slightly crazy, engineers, arts-and-crafts creative geniuses and people who consume technology the way the rest of us eat snacks, and …

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Dec 16

Behind the Scenes with MythBuster Adam Savage

FORA.tv's Kyle Crawford on location with Adam Savage

Check out this behind-the-scenes look at our video shoot with MythBuster Adam Savage for the FORA.tv end-of-the-year video playlist recently featured on YouTube spotlighting the people, issues, and ideas that changed 2010. Click the image below to view the entire album on our Facebook Page. And a HUGE thanks to Mr. Savage for donating his time to …

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