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Desperate Hours
S1, EP11 "Road Disasters"Disasters in the air and misfortunes at sea have a large number of fatalities involved; rail journeys can be fraught with disaster.
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S1, EP12 "Environmental Disasters"Environmental disasters threaten life on land, on sea and in the air.
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S1, EP1 "Volcanoes"A close up view of the most destructive recent volcanic eruptions around the world.
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S1, EP3 "Epidemics"The inside story of pandemic outbreaks including SARS and the African Ebola outbreak in Sudan.
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S1, EP5 "Fire"Examining a natural phenomenon that is both a friend and a foe to humankind, fire; dangerous and deadly fires are a fact of life, as immutable as the wind, the rain or the seasons.
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"Wind"The devastating power of wind from Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans; the destructive Cyclone Nargis in Myanmar.
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S1, EP6 "Floods"Flash floods in Brazil, the deluge that followed Hurricane Katrina, and the overflow after the Indian Ocean Tsunami of 2015 are all, to some extent, natural phenomena; examining if a changing climate is making them worse and more frequent.
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S4, EP10 "Chaos Theory: Small Causes, Great Effects"Many natural phenomena are based on the laws of physics; forecasting the weather several days in advance; asking if it is possible to predict everything.
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S4, EP11 "Algorithms: Following the Recipe!"Countless machines are used to perform hard work in one's daily life, with each of them obeying a specific program custom-written in a particular language.
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S4, EP12 "Mathematics: How to Speak to Robots?"Handling numbers so large that all the books in the world would not be enough to contain them; societies are profoundly reliant on an increasingly complex equation.
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S4, EP1 "Electricity: A Bright Idea!"Distant ancestors were afraid of lightning and thought that it was sent by the gods; today, electricity is part of people's daily lives.
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S4, EP2 "Heredity: It's a Family Affair!"Early in their history, humans realize that they can affect nature by controlling fire, making tools and taming wild animals; what they were not given by nature, they harnessed in other species.
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S4, EP3 "Gravity: It All Falls Into Place!"From the mysterious megaliths in prehistory to the first hot air balloons and the construction of the Giza pyramid complex, ancestors have always observed and experimented to gain a better understanding of their world.
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S4, EP4 "Viruses and Bacteria: Tiny but Tough"A journey through the key events that have allowed people to better understand the world of microbe.
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S4, EP5 "Plastic: A Toxic Friend?"A journey through the key moments that enabled humanity to discover plastics.