Seasons & episodes
1 season · 6 episodes
Episode 01
Surveillance
While surveillance technology raises real privacy concerns, some of it is being used in positive ways, especially when it comes to our animal friends.
Episode 02
Poop
Sure, it's smelly and gross but excrement is more complex than we think. It holds many secrets, many problems, and—potentially—many solutions.
Episode 03
Dust
A speck of dust seems insignificant, but a swarm of it can do everything from generating oxygen to tempering hurricanes to fertilizing the rainforest.
Episode 04
Digits
Latif explores a law of numerical probability that applies to classical music, contemporary social media, tax fraud and perhaps the entire universe.
Episode 05
Clouds
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.
Episode 06
Nukes
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.
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