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S4, EP5 "Plastic: A Toxic Friend?"A journey through the key moments that enabled humanity to discover plastics.
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S4, EP6 "Electromagnetic Waves: Do You Copy?"Long-distance communication, moving stealthily through the dark without being detected, and observation from afar have all become commonplace; at any moment, one can know exactly where one is on the planet.
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S4, EP7 "Energy: A Burning Question"The understanding of energy enables people to send rockets into space; learning what exactly is energy and where it comes from.
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S4, EP8 "Fluid Mechanics: A Source of Inspiration"Running climate simulations on a global scale; learning to control rivers and protect against flooding.
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S4, EP9 "Quantum Physics: A Step Into Unknown"The development of incredible technologies, from the infinitely small to the infinitely large; a journey through the key moments that allow humanity to discover quantum physics.
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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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S3, EP5 "Champollion: Unravelling the Mysteries of the Stone"French Gen. Napoleon Bonaparte's invasion of Egypt leads to 1799's chance discovery of the Rosetta Stone, which proves to be the key to deciphering ancient hieroglyphs, opening a window into Egyptian history.
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S3, EP6 "Gandhi: The Force of Willpower"Young Indian lawyer Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi is thrown off a train in South Africa for daring to sit in a first-class compartment in May 1893.
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S3, EP7 "Lawrence of Arabia: For a Fistful of Sand"British officer T.E. Lawrence helps spearhead the Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Empire during World War I.
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S3, EP8 "Apartheid: The Spiral of Fear"After several months on the run, South African black leader Nelson Mandela is arrested by police and imprisoned on Robben Island off Cape Town in 1962, beginning a long ordeal.
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S3, EP9 "Augustus: Emperor of the Republic"After civil wars weaken the Roman Republic, Julius Caesar proclaims himself dictator for life. However, he is assassinated by Senate conspirators March 14, 44 B.C.
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S3, EP10 "Carthage: Rome's Rival"Founded as a Phoenician colony on the African coast, Carthage rises to dominate the Western Mediterranean until being challenged by Rome in a series of three Punic Wars.
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S3, EP11 "Miners: Fodder of the Industrial Revolution"Scottish inventor, mechanical engineer and chemist James Watt's steam engine innovations power the Industrial Revolution.
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S3, EP12 "Encyclopedia: Dare to Know"Frenchman Denis Diderot becomes a prominent figure of the 18th-century Enlightenment and edits the groundbreaking Encyclopedia, or a Systematic Dictionary of the Sciences, Arts, and Crafts.
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