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  • TheTVDB.com Season ID 1891112
  • Created September 14, 2020
  • Modified March 9, 2024
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Name First Aired Runtime Image
S2021E01 The Forming of the Himalayas - Christmas Lectures with James Jackson
January 2, 2021
6
S2021E02 The Pattern Seekers - A New Theory of Human Invention - with Simon Baron-Cohen
January 7, 2021
44
S2021E03 Yang-Mills, Hodge, and Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer - Million Dollar Equations Part 2 with Tom Crawford
January 14, 2021
67
S2021E04 Why is Norway Rising - Christmas Lectures with James Jackson
January 16, 2021
4
S2021E05 The First Billion Years of the Universe - with Emma Chapman
January 21, 2021
56
S2021E06 What is Reality - with Frank Wilczek
January 28, 2021
77
S2021E07 The Art of Rest - with Claudia Hammond
February 3, 2021
85
S2021E08 What's the Point of Maths - with Nira Chamberlain
February 12, 2021
54
S2021E09 A History of Nerve Agents - with Dan Kaszeta
February 18, 2021
55
S2021E10 How Can Climate Models Help Us Respond to Climate Change - with Vicky Pope
February 25, 2021
54
S2021E11 The Source of Consciousness - with Mark Solms
March 4, 2021
64
S2021E12 How Can Machines Learn Human Values - with Brian Christian
March 11, 2021
61
S2021E13 Vaccines - Warriors and Worriers
March 18, 2021
89
S2021E14 How Far Can We Push the Human Body - with Dr Rohin Francis
March 25, 2021
59
S2021E15 Why Mental Health Goes Wrong and How to Make Sense of It - with Dean Burnett
April 1, 2021
74
S2021E16 How Technology Shapes Humans - with Ainissa Ramirez
April 8, 2021
54
S2021E17 Science and Fire and Cake - We Celerate Our 1 Million Suscribers
April 13, 2021
5
S2021E18 Our Quest to Understand the Cosmos - Brain Greene in Conversation with Jo Marhant
April 15, 2021
66
S2021E19 Viruses, Pandemics and Immunity - with Arup K Chakraorty and Andrey S Shaw
April 22, 2021
52
S2021E20 Effective Data Visualisation - with Valentina D'Efilippo
April 29, 2021
62
S2021E21 The Spike - How Your Brain Uses Electrical Impulses to Communicate with Mark Humphries
May 6, 2021
59
S2021E22 How Do Crime Labs Translate Forensic Evidence into Proof - with Beth Bechky
May 13, 2021
56
S2021E23 Did the Universe Spring from Chaos - with Guido Tonelli
May 20, 2021
57
S2021E24 Overloaded - How Your Brain Chemicals Influence Your Life - with Ginny Smith
May 27, 2021
38
S2021E25 How Irrationality Created Modern Science - with Michael Strevens
June 4, 2021
55
S2021E26 Essential Functions of Sleep - Learning, Memory and Changing Your Mind - with Gina Poe
June 11, 2021
36
S2021E27 The Birth of Quantum Physics - Carlo Rovelli and Conrad Shawcross
June 18, 2021
69
S2021E28 Is It Our Moral Duty to Explore Other Planets - with Christopher Mason
June 24, 2021
51
S2021E29 How Do Neural Networks Grow Smarter - with Robin Hiesinger
July 2, 2021
54
S2021E30 Is This a New Kind of Physics - with Harry Cliff, Paula Alvarez Cartelle and Ben Allanach
July 8, 2021
44
S2021E31 Why Trust Science - with Naomi Oreskes
July 15, 2021
28
S2021E32 What Do Our Brains Do When We're Dreaming- with Mark Solms
July 22, 2021
58
S2021E33 How Easy is It to Grow a Supermassive Black Hole - with Dr Becky
July 29, 2021
45
S2021E34 Welcome to the Royal Institution!
August 4, 2021
1
S2021E35 What Can Intelligent Materials Do - with Skylar Tibbits
August 5, 2021
52
S2021E36 How We Got the Science of Weight Loss Wrong - with Giles Yeo
August 13, 2021
49
S2021E37 How to Build the Universe – with Ben Still
August 19, 2021
40
S2021E38 Rutherford, Radioactivity and the Future of Physics - with the Cosmic Shambles Network
August 27, 2021
58
S2021E39 The Hidden Geometry of Everything - with Jordan Ellenberg
September 2, 2021
54
S2021E40 What Are the New Discoveries in Human Biology - with Dan Davis
September 9, 2021
61
S2021E41 The Fundamental Constituents of Matter and the Eightfold Way
September 15, 2021
7
S2021E42 Constructor Theory - A New Explanation of Fundamental Physics - Chiara Marletto and Marcus du Sautoy
September 16, 2021
48
S2021E43 How to Identify and Mitigate Against the Risks of Climate Change
October 4, 2021
49
S2021E44 The very basics behind yesterday's Facebook blackout. #Shorts
October 5, 2021
1
S2021E45 Is Dark Matter Real - with Sabine Hossenfelder
October 7, 2021
50
S2021E46 The Psychology of Climate Change
October 11, 2021
53
S2021E47 Why Do We Need Quantum Gravity to Explain the Big Bang
October 12, 2021
5
S2021E48 How to Talk to a Science Denier - with Lee McIntyre
October 14, 2021
35
S2021E49 The first electric generator⚡#Shorts
October 17, 2021
1
S2021E50 How Climate Change Causes Biodiversity Loss and What We Can Do About It
October 18, 2021
49
S2021E51 The Science of Cooperation – with Nichola Raihani
October 21, 2021
58
S2021E52 Lessons from Plants - with Beronda Montgomery
October 23, 2021
44
S2021E53 Who Can Make Meaningful Change in the Climate Crisis
October 25, 2021
57
S2021E54 What Does it Take to Make a Universe - with Harry Cliff
October 28, 2021
57
S2021E55 Ghastly Halloween science ???? #Shorts
October 31, 2021
1
S2021E56 Christmas Lectures 2020 - Engine Earth - with Chris Jackson
November 1, 2021
59
S2021E57 Changing Consciousness with Psychoactive Plants - with Michael Pollan and Jules Evans
November 4, 2021
63
S2021E58 Christmas Lectures 2020 - Water World - with Helen Czerski
November 8, 2021
59
S2021E59 How Well Has the Science of the Pandemic Been Presented
November 11, 2021
64
S2021E60 Christmas Lectures 2020 - Up in the Air - with Tara Shine
November 15, 2021
59
S2021E61 How do Medicine and Physics Overlap - with Rohin Francis and Sabine Hossenfelder
November 16, 2021
8
S2021E62 A Beginner's Guide to Black Holes - with Amélie Saintonge
November 18, 2021
37
S2021E63 Are Viruses Alive - with Carl Zimmer
November 25, 2021
53
S2021E64 Is Reality a Controlled Hallucination - with Anil Seth
December 2, 2021
64
S2021E65 Black Holes, Symmetries and Impossible Triangles - In Conversation with Roger Penrose
December 9, 2021
69
S2021E66 How Do Our Brains Perceive the World Around Us - with Anil Seth
December 15, 2021
3
S2021E67 The Volcanoes of our Solar System - with Natalie Starkey
December 16, 2021
62
S2021E68 The Fundamental Patterns that Explain the Universe - with Brian Clegg
December 23, 2021
66
S2021E69 Where Do New Viruses Come From
December 28, 2021
2
S2021E70 How Do Pandemics Get Around the World
season finale
December 30, 2021
2

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