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Science journalist Latif Nasser investigates the surprising and intricate ways in which we are connected to each other, the world and the universe.
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Episode 1 - Surveillance
Release Date: 2020-08-02While surveillance technology raises real privacy concerns, some of it is being used in positive ways, especially when it comes to our animal friends.
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Episode 2 - Poop
Release Date: 2020-08-02Sure, it's smelly and gross but excrement is more complex than we think. It holds many secrets, many problems, and—potentially—many solutions.
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Episode 3 - Dust
Release Date: 2020-08-02A speck of dust seems insignificant, but a swarm of it can do everything from generating oxygen to tempering hurricanes to fertilizing the rainforest.
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Episode 4 - Digits
Release Date: 2020-08-02Latif explores a law of numerical probability that applies to classical music, contemporary social media, tax fraud and perhaps the entire universe.
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Episode 5 - Clouds
Release Date: 2020-08-02A 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.
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Episode 6 - Nukes
Release Date: 2020-08-02They 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.