David Zaslav, CEO of Discovery Communications, received total compensation of $156.1 million in 2014, a year in which the company's stock price fell by 25%. If you can find a justification for that, then you have what it takes to become a CEO.

I am a dandy, always out to lunch, and, so, more mornings than not, getting dressed is the most difficult part of my day. I am incapable of leaving my residence until I've rendered a meticulous sartorial model of that day's polyphonous version of my internal landscape. I am rarely punctual. I will never be caught in sweatpants.

Smithsonian researchers announced the discovery of a new species today—and it's not the usual slimy earth bug! This new species is a distractingly delightful mammal with stylish fur and an energetic attitude. It's called an olinguito and according to the Smithsonian researcher who discovered the creature, "it looks kind of like a fuzzball."

Last night, Discovery aired KKK: Beneath the Hood, a documentary that purported to offer previously unavailable access to various Ku Klux Klan chapters. Such unveiling feels like an act of desperation for a dying breed of people who are irrationally fixated on racial purity and white supremacy while claiming that they don't hate anyone. Bigotry is alive, of course, but I wonder how well it is when even the Klan is too cowardly to own up to its hatred. (Note: Hamilton Nolan's "My Kasual Kountry Weekend With the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan" Gawker story from last year touches on this very phenomenon.)

This is some Indiana Jones level stuff right here. Scientists may have uncovered the Viking "sunstone," a magical-sounding crystal whose powers to locate the sun despite cloud cover, snow, and darkness were understandably considered to be a legend. A group of researchers think a cloudy crystal found in an Elizabethan shipwreck off the Channel Islands may have been the mystical sunstone—thought to be one of the secrets of the Vikings' legendary navigational skills on the seas.

A team of U.S. archeologists believe they've found parts of the long-lost pirate ship of Captain Henry Morgan—that's Admiral Sir Henry Morgan to you, scallawag—down in Panama, which is where I, for one, suspected it was located all along.

NASA's most-flown shuttle, Discovery, landed for the final time today at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Over the course of 39 missions spanning the course of 26 years, Discovery traveled 148,221,665 miles. Career highlights: Launched the Hubble telescope, delivered new modules to the International Space Station. NASA's other two remaining space shuttles—Endeavour and Atlantis—are scheduled for the glue factory later this year. [ABCNews, Image of Discovery above the northwest coast of Morocco via AP]

The Discovery Channel gives us a slowed-down look at everyone's favorite summer toy: the water balloon. Except this one is enormous, and it's a direct face shot.

Captain Phil Harris died earlier this year and now Sig Hansen and brothers Johnathan and Andy Hillstrand are leaving Discovery hit Deadliest Catch amid a messy contract dispute. Will there be any crab fisherman left to film once they're gone?

Maryland's NBC affiliate was able to obtain an interview with two women evacuated from the Discovery Channel Building. The disgruntled gunman reportedly has a grievance with the Discovery corporation. Maybe they shouldn't have given Sarah Palin a reality show?

For more than 20 years, Shark Week has educated audiences by showing them how, with razor-sharp teeth and barrelfuls of dead seals, people can be enticed to watch the Discovery Channel.

Weeks ago, we watched Captain Phil Harris, one of the stars of Deadliest Catch, suffer the stroke that would eventually end his life. Last night, we saw him die. It was one of the greatest moments in reality television history.

Ever wanted to duct tape a friend's car to a pole? You will after watching this clip from tonight's MythBusters. If not for the disclaimers, it would seem like they're giving step by step instructions/inviting people to do this.

Last night, Deadliest Catch began airing episodes about the death of Capt. Phil Harris. In this clip, the final part of the episode, the crew discovers Phil after his stroke and paramedics transport him from the ship. Pretty heartbreaking stuff.

Check out this exclusive clip from the upcoming Mythbusters Top 25 special, unless you've killed the child inside you and hate gratuitously awesome explosion fests.

In their super awesome second duct tape special, the Mythbusters crew build a terrifying bridge and slam cars through 3 inch thick duct tape barriers. This looks fun. Can you get a grad degree in mythbusting?

The sixth season of Deadliest Catch kicked off tonight with calm seas and easy sailing. Strangely enough, a cod boat still managed to capsize in the unseasonably calm weather and all boats nearby were called in for rescue. Heroic video inside.

The concept of the spycar has been around since the invention of the car so the guys from Mythbusters decided to play a little game of chase to find out whether the techniques shown in movies work out on the road.

Last night was the premiere of Discovery Channel's Atlas 4D. Like Sunday night's Life, it is a slow-motion heavy look at our world, but with less animal porn and more geology porn.

Word came this morning that two networks, A&E and Discovery, are fighting over quitting governor Palin's proposed reality series about her native homeland, the Alaska. Which she would host. If this thing actually goes to air, what'll it be like?