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S01E06 - "Nukes"
Aired on Aug 2, 2020, 12:00 PM
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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.
Aug 2, 2020
45 min
Poop
Sure, it's smelly, dirty and gross. But excrement is more complex than we think, holding many secrets, many problems and, potentially, many solutions.
Aug 2, 2020
47 min
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.
Aug 2, 2020
39 min
Digits
Latif explores a law of numerical probability that applies to classical music, contemporary social media, tax fraud and perhaps the entire universe.
Aug 2, 2020
46 min
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.
Aug 2, 2020
50 min
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.
Aug 2, 2020
40 min
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