The blogosphere has been abuzz with analysis of last week's episode of Mythbusters, in which they tested Jamie's assertion (from a previous episode) that two cars crashing into each other at 50 miles per hour is the same as one hitting a wall at 100 miles per hour. OK, well, that turned out to be wrong....

On the last episode before breaking for Christmas, the Mythbusters build team undertook the slightly ambitious project of skipping a car across a pond, as shown in the movie Cannonball Run. At first this probably seems like a ridiculous thing to try — of course, on Mythbusters, what isn't? But this one actually worked. Here's a look at the rather...

Hot on the heels of their Bullet Fired vs. Bullet Dropped episode, the Mythbusters have another result that's poised to shake up the world of science... well, maybe not. But this week's main myth, Dirty vs. Clean Car, is the kind of neat idea that most of us would never think to test and yet turns out to be surprisingly close to practicality. The...