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Season 1

6 episode 2020-08-02
  1. E1 · Surveillance

    E1 · Surveillance

    45 mnt

    While surveillance technology raises real privacy concerns, some of it is being used in positive ways, especially when it comes to our animal friends.

    2020-08-02

  2. E2 · Poop

    E2 · Poop

    47 mnt

    Sure, it's smelly and gross but excrement is more complex than we think. It holds many secrets, many problems, and—potentially—many solutions.

    2020-08-02

  3. E3 · Dust

    E3 · Dust

    39 mnt

    A speck of dust seems insignificant, but a swarm of it can do everything from generating oxygen to tempering hurricanes to fertilizing the rainforest.

    2020-08-02

  4. E4 · Digits

    E4 · Digits

    46 mnt

    Latif explores a law of numerical probability that applies to classical music, contemporary social media, tax fraud and perhaps the entire universe.

    2020-08-02

  5. E5 · Clouds

    E5 · Clouds

    50 mnt

    A 19th-century shipwreck led to weather forecasting as we know it, and laid the groundwork for other predictive models as well as ... well, the cloud.

    2020-08-02

  6. E6 · Nukes

    E6 · Nukes

    40 mnt

    They may be our worst creations. But Latif uncovers how nuclear bombs did some surprising good and visits those who ensure that they stop blowing up.

    2020-08-02