Season 1
2020 · 6 episodes
Episodes
1. Surveillance
August 2, 2020 · 45m
While surveillance technology raises real privacy concerns, some of it is being used in positive ways, especially when it comes to our animal friends.
2. Poop
August 2, 2020 · 46m
Sure, it's smelly and gross but excrement is more complex than we think. It holds many secrets, many problems, and—potentially—many solutions.
3. Dust
August 2, 2020 · 39m
A speck of dust seems insignificant, but a swarm of it can do everything from generating oxygen to tempering hurricanes to fertilizing the rainforest.
4. Digits
August 2, 2020 · 46m
Latif explores a law of numerical probability that applies to classical music, contemporary social media, tax fraud and perhaps the entire universe.
5. Clouds
August 2, 2020 · 49m
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.
6. Nukes
August 2, 2020 · 39m
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.