Discovery Channel is the unsung hero here. Mike Rowe is a fantastic host and narrator, but it is the Discovery Channel which has given him and others the platform to do what so many else have struggled to: get young people interested in science and technology. Sure, a lot of it is overly high-level or pseudo-science or simply mindless explosions... but they sure have done one hell of a job making a lot of traditionally uninteresting things, interesting.
