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TV Picks: Uncover the science behind natural phenomena and weather patterns through a series of interactive games and exciting experiments with “3 Scientists Walk into a Bar,” a new original series on The Weather Channel.Meet Travis Taylor, astrophysicist / aerospace engineer (“Rocket City Rednecks”); Tara Long, statistician (“Hard Science”); and Anthony Carboni, science fanatic (“Hard Science”, “We Have Concerns” podcast) – who will put viewers’ intelligence to the test, answering questions about everyday occurrences with educational, and sometimes explosive, demonstrations and experiments. “3 Scientists” premieres as a sneak peek on Sunday, May 31 from 7:00-10:00 p.m. Et with three back-to-back […]...

Travis Taylor and his best friend, Rog Jones, may seem like your average Huntsville, Alabama, residents who like to spend their weekends hanging out with their families and enjoying the outdoors. But an average weekend for Taylor and Jones can actually involve everything from building a giant rocket to blowing up an outhouse and hooking up a rocket engine on the back of a pickup truck. As the stars of National Geographic Channel’s series Rocket City Rednecks, Taylor, a research scientist with the Department of Defense and Nasa, and Jones spend their time building and blowing up things to solve

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Just in time to offer a refreshing alternative to the slew of Honey Boo Boo type of “redneck” programming that tends to dumb down the American conversation, Rocket City Rednecks and its cast of brilliant — but still fun-loving — Alabama rocket scientists returns. As evidenced in the show’s successful first season last year, while the Rocket City Rednecks — engineer Travis Taylor; his father Charles Taylor (one of Nasa’s original machinists); Rog Jones, who has a genius Iq; Michael Taylor, Travis’ brilliant nephew; and Pete Erbach, Travis’ physicist brother-in-law — all embrace their Southern lifestyle and enjoy living the [...]...