Shark Week 2016, Pt. I: Shark n' Awe!
Like many people, I've had my philosophical and political differences with Discovery Channel's annual Shark Week over the years. A couple of years back, when the channel decided that making their own fictional movies -- called "docudramas" -- was the new direction for Shark Week , I almost checked out for good. But, last year, Discovery seemed to have sworn off the fake Megalodon crap (I am not saying Megalodon was fake, just the fictional films that Discovery Channel made about the beast existing in modern times that that they disguised and hid among their actual documentaries), and made a full dive back into real science, or at least as close as you can get to real science when what you are really doing is selling advertising still at least partially based around the public's irrational fear of a naturally occurring sea creature. And d espite my own emotions over the programming ranging from disgruntled (over the barely disguised fishing shows that would sne...