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Ladder to the Stars
E1

Ladder to the Stars

8.2

An adventure spanning billions of years into the evolution of life and consciousness. A visit to a 100,000-year-old laboratory. The story of the change in life-style that radically altered human existence and the life of the heretic who found god in the book of nature, opening our way to the stars.

43 min

The Fleeting Grace of the Habitable Zone
E2

The Fleeting Grace of the Habitable Zone

8.2

There is no refuge from change in the cosmos. There will come a time in the life of the Sun when Earth will no longer be a home for us. The story of our ancestors who rose to a comparable challenge and a long-term vision of our future on other worlds.

43 min

Lost City of Life
E3

Lost City of Life

7.8

A new vision of genesis at the bottom of the blood red sea of the infant Earth. And the story of the man who found the first clues to life's beginning in a green jewel. As he searched for life's origin, he risked his own, daring to toy with his Nazi tormentors.

43 min

Vavilov
E4

Vavilov

8.4

In the first half of the 20th century pioneering geneticist Nikolai Vavilov traveled 5 continents assembling a treasury of the worlds seeds. He dreamed that science could be the means to end hunger. His refusal to tell a scientific lie cost him his life. The heroism of his colleagues and its direct impact on your life is one of the most stirring stories in the history of science.

43 min

The Cosmic Connectome
E5

The Cosmic Connectome

7.6

A voyage of discovery through the evolution of consciousness with stops in ancient Greece, a visit to the largest life form on Earth, into the poignant dream of an abandoned orphan that opened the way to our understanding of the architecture of thought and beyond to a vision of a galactic network of thought.

43 min

The Man of a Trillion Worlds
E6

The Man of a Trillion Worlds

7.8

A child lies on the rug of a tenement dreaming of interstellar adventures. At the dawn of the space age, a young Carl Sagan's career is forged in the clash of his mentors, two scientific titans. Sagan goes on realize his childhood dreams, to carry their research forward and communicate its significance to the whole world.

43 min

The Search for Intelligent Life on Earth
E7

The Search for Intelligent Life on Earth

8.2

A revelation of the hidden underground network that is a collaboration of four kingdoms of life, and a true first contact story between humans and beings who communicate in a symbolic language and have maintained a representative democracy for many tens of millions of years.

43 min

The Sacrifice of Cassini
E8

The Sacrifice of Cassini

8.4

The mysterious untold story of the scientist who figured out how to go the Moon while fighting for his life in a WWI trench. He wrote a letter to fifty years in the future. It made the Apollo Mission possible. And the saga of the twenty-year long odyssey of a robotic explorer ordered to commit suicide on another world.

43 min

Magic Without Lies
E9

Magic Without Lies

8.2

Meet the man who stumbled on a hole in the reality of quantum mechanics and the still-unfolding technology that made it possible.

43 min

A Tale of Two Atoms
E10

A Tale of Two Atoms

8.1

How a deadly embrace between science and state altered the fate of the world, and a gripping cautionary tale of mass casualty and unlikely survival.

43 min

Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors
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E11

Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors

7.9

An exploration of human potential for change, concluding with the story of one of history's greatest monster and his virtuous transformation.

43 min

Coming of Age In The Anthropocene
E12

Coming of Age In The Anthropocene

7.9

A baby is born on the day the show premieres. What kind of world can she expect to grow up in? One of her possible futures is explored.

43 min

Seven Wonders of The New World
E13

Seven Wonders of The New World

6.9

Take a trip to the 2039 New York World’s Fair, where the problems we now consider hopeless have been solved and thrilling possibilities exist.

43 min

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