Episode list

Latif explores a law of numerical probability that applies to classic music, contemporary social media, tax fraud and perhaps the entire universe.

A speck of dust seems insignificant, but a swarm of it can do everything from generating oxygen to tempering hurricanes to fertilizing the rainforest.

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.

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

Sure, it's smelly and gross. Bit excrement is more complex than we think, holding many secrets, many problems and, potentially, many solutions.

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.