Connected - Season 1
1 - Surveillance
Air Date: August 2, 2020
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
Air Date: August 2, 2020
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
Air Date: August 2, 2020
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
Air Date: August 2, 2020
Latif explores a law of numerical probability that applies to classical music, contemporary social media, tax fraud and perhaps the entire universe.
5 - Clouds
Air Date: August 2, 2020
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
Air Date: August 2, 2020
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.