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42: The Answer to Almost Everything

42 - Die Antwort auf fast alles
📅 2021 ⭐ 9.6 DE DE
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What would we be without mucus? Can we live on water? How much does life weigh? Finding out the answers is the aim of ARTE's new science show. In a nod to Douglas Adams's "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", where the figure 42 is the ultimate answer to all questions, 42 tries to provide the answers.

Seasons & Episodes
Season 1 198 episodes ▼
E1
Can we dig our way through the Earth? 2021-09-04
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E2
Could We Live on the Moon? 2021-09-11
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E3
Should we use lotteries instead of elections? 2021-09-18
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E4
How Much Does Life Weigh? 2021-09-25
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E5
Will we move onto the water? 2021-09-29
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E6
Can Algorithms Make Us Healthy? 2021-09-30
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E7
What if there were no mucus? 2021-10-01
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E8
How do we solve the nuclear waste puzzle? 2021-10-23
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E9
What if Fear Didn't Exist? 2021-10-30
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E10
What if the ice disappeared? 2021-11-06
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E11
Do We All hear the Same Thing? 2021-11-14
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E12
Are we too pessimistic? 2021-11-20
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E13
Does the Perfect Song Exist? 2021-11-27
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E14
Are we alone in space? 2021-12-05
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E15
Why Do We Eat What We Eat? 2021-12-11
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E16
What is the secret of light? 2021-12-12
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E17
Can we save the trees? 2022-01-08
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E18
What if dust didn't exist? 2022-01-15
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E19
Geoengineering: Earth's Last Resort 2022-01-22
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E20
Could Algae Save the Planet? 2022-01-29
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E21
Will Messenger RNA Save Us From Cancer? 2022-02-05
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E22
Will We Stop Flying? 2022-02-12
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E23
Will We Like Robots? 2022-02-19
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E24
The Purpose of Parasites 2022-02-26
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E25
Could We Sleep Less? 2022-03-05
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E26
Are Cryptocurrencies the Future? 2022-03-12
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E27
Do We Live in a Black Hole? 2022-03-19
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E28
The Power of Dreams 2022-03-26
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E29
Where do people migrate to? 2022-04-30
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E30
What Do Animals Talk About? 2022-05-07
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E31
Are we getting dumber? 2022-05-14
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E32
Do Computers Have Biases? 2022-05-21
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E33
How can everyone be fed? 2022-05-28
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E34
Are We Doing More Drugs? 2022-06-04
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E35
Are We Ready for Mars? 2022-06-11
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E36
Can we glimpse the afterlife? 2022-06-18
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E37
Could we become immortal? 2022-06-25
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E38
Could We Live Without Agriculture? 2022-07-02
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E39
How dangerous is space weather? 2022-07-09
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E40
Will we travel to Mars? 2022-07-16
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E41
Can We Create Money from Nothing? 2022-07-23
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E42
How do we end wars? 2022-07-30
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E43
Is Space Being Stolen From Us? 2022-08-05
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E44
What Power Do Thoughts Have? 2022-08-12
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E45
Can We Trust Ourselves? 2022-08-19
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E46
Are we more intelligent in swarms? 2022-08-26
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E47
The Search for a Universal Theory 2022-09-02
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E48
Can we turn crap into gold? 2022-09-09
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E49
Are You Psychopathic? 2022-09-16
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E50
How does a wave become rogue? 2022-09-23
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E51
Do We Need Economic Growth? 2022-10-30
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E52
Are we gambling away our lives? 2022-11-06
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E53
Why do we have limits? 2022-11-13
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E54
Where to Find Perfect Energy? 2022-11-20
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E55
What if sharks disappeared? 2022-11-27
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E56
Are Animals Self-Aware? 2022-12-04
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E57
Why do We Fall in Love? 2022-12-09
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E58
What if nature had a price? 2022-12-10
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E59
Can we copy our blood? 2022-12-23
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E60
Why do we hate? 2023-01-08
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E61
Could We Bring Back the Wooly Mammoth? 2023-01-15
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E62
Can seals go to court? 2023-01-29
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E63
Do colors manipulate us? 2023-02-05
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E64
Will there be a new 'human species'? 2023-02-13
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E65
Is There a Male Fertility Crisis? 2023-02-19
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E66
Can Cities Save the World? 2023-02-26
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E67
When the Heavens Rain Down 2023-03-19
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E68
Do Fungi Rule Us? 2023-03-24
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E69
The A***hole Effect 2023-03-19
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E70
How It All Ends 2023-03-26
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E71
When Will the World End? 2023-03-31
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E72
How to Travel Through Time? 2023-04-07
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E73
Mind Reading: A Reality? 2023-04-14
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E74
Surviving Our Polluted Planet 2023-05-21
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E75
The Chaos of Chance 2023-05-28
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E76
Who Owns the Sea? 2023-06-04
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E77
Do Animals Appreciate Beauty? 2023-06-05
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E78
Will a new wind soon blow? 2023-06-18
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E79
Are we going to disappear beneath the waves? 2023-06-25
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E80
Are We All Bisexual? 2023-07-02
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E81
The Advent of Turbo-Evolution 2023-07-09
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E82
Why do we lose our memory? 2023-07-16
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E83
Humanity's True Nature 2023-07-23
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E84
Can We Live Without Electricity? 2023-07-30
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E85
What Happens When the Glaciers Disappear? 2023-09-03
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E86
Could We Reach the Stars? 2023-09-10
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E87
Is Lying Good For Us? 2023-09-17
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E88
Will we one day be cryogenically frozen? 2023-09-24
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E89
Will we run out of sand? 2023-10-01
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E90
What's So Funny? 2023-10-08
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E91
The Origin of Life 2023-10-15
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E92
Does Punishment Work? 2023-10-22
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E93
What Are Our Imaginations For? 2023-10-29
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E94
Can We Trick Our Genes? 2023-11-05
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E95
Amasia: The Supercontinent of the Future 2023-11-12
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E96
Do Dogs Really Love Us? 2023-11-19
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E97
Do We Need Corruption? 2023-11-26
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E98
Are Animals Cleverer than Us? 2023-12-03
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E99
Are Billionaires a Problem? 2023-12-10
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E100
How strongly does our mother tongue shape us? 2023-12-17
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E101
Do We Live in a Multiverse? 2024-01-07
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E102
Does History Repeat Itself? 2024-01-14
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E103
Are there too many of us on Earth? 2024-01-21
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E104
Is stress good for us? 2024-01-28
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E105
Do Disasters Make Us Better? 2024-02-04
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E106
Is the Metaverse Real? 2024-02-11
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E107
Do We All Have a Doppelganger? 2024-02-18
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E108
Could We Programme Evoluton? 2024-02-25
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E109
Is There an Upside to Climate Change? 2024-03-03
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E110
Do We Need More Utopias? 2024-03-10
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E111
Can we control clouds? 2024-03-17
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E112
Does Sugar Make Us Stupid? 2024-03-24
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E113
What if the poles reversed again? 2024-04-28
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E114
What power do smells have? 2024-05-05
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E115
Can We Shrink the Economy? 2024-05-12
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E116
How Do Plants Live? 2024-05-19
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E117
How to Become Popular 2024-05-26
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E118
Do We Need to Have Power? 2024-06-02
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E119
Should Humans Be Smaller? 2024-06-09
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E120
Is AI Out of Control? 2024-06-16
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E121
Are Invasive Species Always a Problem? 2024-06-23
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E122
Would We Be Happier Without Happiness? 2024-06-30
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E123
Why Do We Cry? 2024-07-07
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E124
Could Sea Currents Change? 2024-07-14
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E125
Could Matriarchy Be the Solution? 2024-07-21
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E126
Are Aliens Like Us? 2024-07-28
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E127
Is Pain Necessary? 2024-09-01
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E128
Do Animals Have Better Societies? 2024-09-08
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E129
How Powerful are Maps? 2024-09-15
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E130
Does Quantum Physics Change Our Reality? 2024-09-22
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E131
Why Do We Have Less Sex? 2024-09-29
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E132
Has Slavery Made Us Racist? 2024-10-12
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E133
Why Is Housing So Expensive? 2024-10-13
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E134
Can We Make Friends with Our Enemies? 2024-10-20
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E135
Can We Replace Pollination? 2024-10-26
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E136
Are We Taking Enough Risks? 2024-11-03
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E137
Who Really Were Our Ancestors? 2024-11-10
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E138
Is a World Without Violence Possible? 2024-11-16
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E139
Can We Remember Precisely? 2024-11-24
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E140
What Holds the Universe Together? 2024-12-01
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E141
Do We Need God? 2024-12-08
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E142
What Protests Work? 2025-01-05
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E143
How do Children Function? 2025-01-12
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E144
Will We Grieve Differently in Future? 2025-01-19
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E145
Do We Need Weapons for Peace? 2025-01-26
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E146
What Should We Actually Eat? 2025-01-27
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E147
Are We Ready for Aliens? 2025-02-02
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E148
How Important is Our Microbiome? 2025-02-16
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E149
Why Is Wealth So Unfairly Distributed? 2025-02-23
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E150
What Makes Us Depressed? 2025-03-02
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E151
Does the Perfect Code Exist? 2025-03-09
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E152
Are We Ready for World Government? 2025-03-16
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E153
Are We Wasting Period Blood? 2025-03-23
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E154
Can We Feel Time? 2025-03-30
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E155
How Does Water Create Life? 2025-05-04
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E156
Are Cyborgs the Future? 2025-05-11
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E157
Can We Save Truth? 2025-05-18
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E158
Can We Cure Addictions? 2025-05-25
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E159
Are We Too Curious? 2025-06-01
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E160
What Did Dinosaurs Really Look Like? 2025-06-08
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E161
Can We Outwit Viruses? 2025-06-15
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E162
Where Does Madness Begin? 2025-06-22
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E163
Should We Be Bored More Often? 2025-06-29
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E164
How Powerful is Disinformation? 2025-07-06
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E165
Why Do Civilisations Fall? 2025-07-13
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E166
Should We Argue More? 2025-07-20
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E167
How Mathematic is the Universe? 2025-07-27
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E168
Is The World Better Than We Think? 2025-08-31
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E169
How Smart Are the Animals We Eat 2025-09-07
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E170
Does Failure Help Us Succeed? 2025-09-14
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E171
Was Stone-Age Man Dumber Than Us? 2025-09-21
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E172
The Age of Fire 2025-09-28
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E173
Why Does Music Move Us? 2025-10-05
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E174
Optimisation: Is It Making Us Mad? 2025-10-12
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E175
Is a Superbug Pandemic Coming? 2025-10-19
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E176
Can Humans Hibernate? 2025-10-26
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E177
Does Society Need Alcohol? 2025-11-02
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E178
...We Make Free Decisions? 2025-11-09
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E179
What was there before the Big Bang? 2025-11-16
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E180
How Powerful Are Images? 2025-11-23
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E181
How Does the Female Orgasm Work? 2025-11-30
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E182
Is Space Debris Dangerous for Earth? 2025-12-07
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E183
Can Our Brains Still Concentrate? 2025-12-14
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E184
Why Do We Love Horror? 2026-01-05
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E185
Does Planet Nine Really Exist? 2026-01-11
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E186
Are We An Evolutionary Superspecies? 2026-01-18
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E187
Are Wasps Game Changers of Evolution? 2026-01-25
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E188
Why do we sing? 2026-02-01
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E189
How monogamous are humans? 2026-02-08
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E190
Why Do We Love Gold? 2026-02-15
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E191
Do Emotions Control the Markets? 2026-02-22
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E192
What if life were mirrored? 2026-03-01
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E193
Do we need the alpha male? 2026-03-08
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E194
Black Holes: A Future Energy Source? 2026-03-15
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E195
Is Brain Washing Possible? 2026-04-19
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E196
Why Are We So Competitive? 2026-04-26
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E197
Do we need siblings? 2026-05-03
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E198
Episode 198 2026-05-10
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Crew
Director Alexander Lahl Director Max Mönch Editor Christoph Dechant Editor Gunnar Refardt Editor Laura Bierbraucher Editor Ma Raab Editor Thomas Bernecker Producer Alexander Lahl Producer Max Mönch Production Design Gesa Hinterlang Writer Anette Schmaltz Writer Beate Brehm Writer Boris Geiger Writer David Donschen Writer Katrin Focke Writer Petra Thurn Writer Romy Steyer Writer Thomas Kulik
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