President Obama says he'll be exercising his inner geek in an appearance on Discovery Channel show Mythbusters—but the myth he's busting has nothing to do with his birth certificate or whether he's secretly a Muslim. And unlike what usually happens on Mythbusters, he won't be blowing anything up. "I was a little frustrated with that," Obama said yesterday at the White House Science Fair.
Instead he will be helping Mythbusters hosts Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman test the claim that Archimedes was able to concentrate solar rays using mirrors to burn ships at sea. Read the full article. (More President Obama stories.)