This Sunday on the Discovery Channel, Park Slope Food Co-op worker Maggie Gyllenhaal will watch a lady have an orgasm with you. Gyllenhaal is hosting a new episode of the show Curiosity, where she'll try to better understand the female orgasm. Watch the clip below, where the actress actually says the words: "Inside this MRI machine, she's about to give herself an orgasm... in the name of science." more ›

On one hand, sharks are beautiful creatures, vital to the ocean's ecosystem, and in dire need of protection. On the other hand, they totally killed Robert Shaw, Samuel L. Jackson, and other revered thespians. So will you be eating Queens eatery MexiQ's shark tacos in honor of Shark Week? more ›

By now, we think we're all quite comfortable admitting that NYC is really the rats' fiefdom—we're just renting their property, riding their subways, and stuffing our mouths full with them in a desperate bid for some semblance of control. But according to BBC/Discovery Channels excellent Human Planet, there’s at least one rat for every person in NYC. The show will explore the Big Apple's rat population in this Sunday's episode. Below, you can check out a clip from it, in which pest control firm M&M Environmental explores the basement of one unnamed East Village restaurant. It makes you think extra hard about where you're ordering out from, to say the least. more ›

Update, 5:15 p.m.: DCist reports that Lee was shot. Here's what Montgomery County Police Chief Tom Manger said, "He took three people hostage, near the lobby area of the entrance to the building. Over the past several hours, we've been in negotiations with the man. Approximately ten minutes ago, the suspect was shot by police officers. A device appeared to go off, we haven't confirmed that as of this time, we saw some smoke, may have heard a pop, haven't confirmed all that as of yet. There were three hostages, all of the hostages are safe and out of the building." more ›

Built in the shadow of the twin towers, the Blarney Stone never quite recovered after 9/11, but thanks to Discovery Channel's "Construction Intervention" they're getting a second chance. The show's host Charlie Frattini uses his construction skills to help businesses in danger of closing from shoddy construction work. The Blarney Stone suffers from leaky sinks, broken bar stools and termites, and rises in rents meant the owners couldn't do much to fix the problems. But Frattini was able to save the pub, which opened in 1968, in four days. He told the Daily News, "When 9/11 happened, the Blarney Stone opened its doors to the rescue workers, and they kept this place open for nothing. And that's one of the reasons I just had to come down here, because it was time to give something back to them." more ›

[UPDATE BELOW] Fox News' "Real American Stories," hosted by hockey mom Sarah Palin, will be airing tomorrow night with interviews with Toby Keith, Jack Welch and LL Cool J. But the rapper wants to set the record straight, because he didn't actually sit down with Palin for an interview. He wrote on Twitter last night, "Fox lifted an old interview I gave in 2008 to someone else & are misrepresenting to the public in order to promote Sarah Palins Show. WOW." Watch what you say, Cool James; you might getcherself yer very own Palin target on your back! more ›

Chances are you've seen the Discovery Channel's show Dirty Jobs by now, but if not, here's a quick recap: each week host Mike Rowe basically plays apprentice to people with the most disgusting and/or dangerous jobs. The NY Post has a profile on the host, as his show enters its 5th season. more ›

EVENT: Angels and Kings is hosting a Nerd Nite, described as: "the Discovery Channel with beer." This evening brings zombies to life, sort of, with a presentation on the undead titled "Zombies Are Real: Actual Zombies of the Natural World And Why You Might Be One." Drink, learn, be nerdy. more ›

, also known as the shark in a tank by British artist Damien Hirst, will be shown at the Metropolitan Museum of Art by Labor Day, according to the NY Times. The artwork, bought by hedge fund billionaire Steve Cohen for $8 million, isn't the exact same one that was exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum of Art's Sensation show in 1999 - the shark has since been replaced, as it started to rot almost immediately (note to conceptual artists thinking about suspending animal carcasses in formaldehyde- the carcasses need to injected with formaldehyde too). more ›

A look at some noteworthy television this week: more ›

“I had a tracking box in my bedroom,” he said. Huh? “That’s a box of sand that I walked in, pretending I was an animal. That determined how my tracks would look if I turned or walked backward.” It helped him, he said, to understand the nuances of animal movement. more ›

, we never quite thought of Malcolm Gladwell's bestselling books as "movie material." Though interesting and filled with all kinds of fun facts about snap judgments, speed-dating, and the origins of the Hush Puppy madness, they lacked traditional plots or story outlines that could easily be adapted for the screen; they seemed more Discovery Channel material. But thanks to a skinny modelizer with big adaptation dreams -- Leonardo DiCaprio -- we can probably expect Blink, the “intellectual adventure story,” to soon hit theatres. According to Variety, Dicaprio's production company is currently adapting the bestseller, with DiCaprio (obviously) set to star and Stephen Gaghan onboard to write and direct. Supposedly, Gaghan's plans to include a writer character based on Gladwell and various characters out of the book, "woven together into a story." We can only hope DiCaprio intends to play the lead in a curly, Gladwell-afro inspired wig. more ›

Gothamist noticed that on the Discovery Channel there's a program called Life of Grime, and tonight's episode follows a NYC restaurant inspector. Gothamist is a little afraid of what the episode might bring, especially since the description notes the inspector "finds evidence of rats in the kitchen and liquor bottles full of flies" but we're going to watch. And dream up Law & Order: Restaurant Violations. more ›

The Chocolate Show is coming! The Chocolate Show is coming! We know where we'll be camped out this weekend . . . more ›

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Jina Wye, MBA Student more ›