Emily Westerholm with the River City Magnolias put the finishing touches on her eyelashes Saturday before the group participated in the Mardi Gras RVA Parade at Dogtown Dance Theatre in Richmond. FILE – In this Jan. 9, 1997, file photo, David Bowie performs during a concert celebrating his 50th birthday, at Madison Square Garden in New York.
Category: MythBusters
Can Empirical Entertainment Rescue Science in an Alt-Fact World?
Adam Savage and Michael Stevens, two big names in science entertainment, symbolize successive paradigm shifts in the genre: Savage pioneered the personality-driven, blow-it-up TV spectacle that made cultural phenomena of science shows like MythBusters in the early 2000s; Stevens has fueled YouTube’s rise as a science communication hub for digital-age audiences via Vsauce, his popular thought-experiment channel, and his new YouTube Red program, Mind Field . As the year gets underway – and as science communication increasingly confronts a world of “alternative facts” – Savage and Stevens are setting off on a 40-city science presentation called Brain Candy Live , which launches this month.