Connected - The Hidden Science of Everything • 2020 • 5 episodes • 4h:24m

Science journalist Latif Nasser investigates the surprising and intricate ways in which we are connected to each other, the world and the universe.

Surveillance
45:03
Surveillance

Ever feel like you're being watched? Well, you may be right. Latif explores the sometimes cute, often creepy ways surveillance pervades our lives.

S1E1 • 2020 • Science

Poop
46:43
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.

S1E2 • 2020 • Technology

Dust
39:07
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.

S1E3 • 2020 • Technology

Clouds
49:39
Clouds

How does the cloud above your head connect to the cloud that stores your data? The answer involves a shipwreck and a shark-proof garden hose.

S1E5 • 2020 • Science

Nukes
39:47
Nukes

They may be our worst creations. But nuclear bombs also taught us things about ourselves and our world that we couldn’t have learned any other way.

S1E6 • 2020 • Technology