Home / Series / Focus Forward / Aired Order /

All Seasons

Season 1

  • S01E01 The Landfill

    • January 24, 2012

    Trash becomes energy at a small New York landfill where people are thinking differently about garbage.

  • S01E02 Heart Stop Beating

    • January 24, 2012

    In March 2011, two visionary doctors from the Texas Heart Institute successfully replaced a dying man's heart with a 'continuous flow' device, proving that life was possible without a heart beat.

  • S01E03 Newtown Creek Digester Eggs: The Art Of Human Waste

    • January 24, 2012

    An unusual marriage of form and function energizes the jaw-droppingly beautiful Newtown Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant in Brooklyn, New York.

  • S01E04 Meet Mr. Toilet

    • January 24, 2012

    For those without access to a simple toilet, poop can be poison. Businessman-turned-sanitation-superhero Jack Sim fights this oft-neglected crisis affecting 2.6 billion people.

  • S01E05 Hilary's Straws

    • January 24, 2012

    A moving portrait of Hilary Lister, a quadriplegic champion sailor whose metal-and-circuit-board navigational tool, invented with friends, led her to conquer the oceans of the world.

  • S01E31 Cyborg Foundation

    • March 18, 2014

    Neil Harbisson was born with achromatopsia, a rare condition that causes complete color blindness. In 2004, Harbisson and Adam Montandon developed the eyeborg, a device that translates colors into sounds.

  • S01E32 The Artificial Leaf

  • S01E33 Slingshot

  • S01E34 Bones Don't Lie and Don't Forget

  • S01E35 Mine Kafon