S1 E1: Can We Control Clouds?
What makes clouds actually move and do we have any control over it?
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What makes clouds actually move and do we have any control over it?
28 minutes
As children, we all wondered if we could dig our way through the Earth. If we started digging in Paris and kept going downwards, we'd end up in the ocean after 12,700 kilometers, just off the coast of New Zealand. But it's not that simple.
27 minutes
The moon was thought to be a closed chapter. So why, 50 years after the last astronaut left Earth's natural satellite, is there a new rush to the moon?
24 minutes
How many people can the Earth actually sustain? And if there really are too many of us - which of us is actually too many?
26 minutes
We think in words. We usually do this in our native language. It allows us to put the world around us into words. But languages differ. The toolbox they provide can be completely different.
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Whether it's buying the rights to host football world championships or bribing politicians: corruption works well until someone finds out about it.
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Stress and we humans clearly don't have a love affair: In fact, 85% of us would prefer to have nothing to do with it at all.
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Whether it's a cell phone, glass, or underwear, sand is everywhere. Without it, there would be no houses, no roads. "Without sand, we would be lost," emphasizes environmental scientist Pascal Peduzzi.
29 minutes
Anyone who owns a dog is convinced: the relationship between dog and human is something unique. A close, unbreakable bond, perhaps even love.
26 minutes
Many people don't consider their sense of smell particularly important. In fact, 25 percent of students surveyed would rather lose their sense of smell than their smartphone.
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Who actually owns the sea? For centuries it was regulated like this: As far as a cannonball flew - that's how much sea belonged to one's own country.
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Humans lie, cheat, and wage war mercilessly. Sometimes it seems as if evil is inherently human. On the other hand, people can be good, love, and even make peace with their enemies. Which side of us is stronger?
24 minutes
Sometimes nature appears to us humans like a gigantic catwalk, showcasing its full beauty. Is what we perceive as beauty in the animal kingdom "merely" a result of natural selection in reproduction?
22 minutes
In our minds, we often see and experience things that have little to do with reality. We spend a large part of our waking hours daydreaming. But imagination also plays a crucial role in focused thinking.
26 minutes
Who doesn't love the beach and the endless expanse of the sea - but will that very thing soon become a danger? It's a fact that climate change is causing sea levels to rise, but not all coastlines are affected equally.
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New doppelgangers are constantly being discovered; people who look eerily similar to each other...without being related.
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Our bodies contain a wealth of data: in our DNA, RNA, proteins, metabolism, and microbiome. If we could precisely read and analyze this data, we would be able to detect diseases much earlier than before.
24 minutes
Adults laugh 20 times a day, children up to 500 times. But where does humor begin and where does it end?
26 minutes
What if disasters don't just kill and cause suffering? What if disasters were ultimately even helpful? After all, we survived the last great ice age; many large vertebrates didn't.
25 minutes
Whether we are fat or thin, tall or short, have blue or brown eyes, whether we are musical or not...all of this is determined by our genes. But if we can't influence our genes themselves, perhaps we can influence their regulatory mechanisms that activate or deactivate certain genes?
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Until now, wind has been the neglected child of climate research: too difficult to measure, too variable, and with too little data from the distant past.
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Have you ever considered putting your life on ice? To wake up only when all of today's problems have been solved? Or simply to see what the Earth will look like in a hundred years?
28 minutes
For a long time, we viewed forgetting as a weakness of the human mind. But, as neuroscientist Tomas Ryan asks, "What if forgetting isn't a flaw of the brain? What if it serves a function?"
25 minutes
Whether it's liquid, a cloud, or ice: Earth - and all life on it - depends on water. Anyone who explores the central importance of water discovers an eccentric, enigmatic substance that is actually present everywhere in the universe.
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The state has an entire justice system at its disposal to prosecute wrongdoing and impose punishments. But do punishments achieve what we hope they will?
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We all depend on electricity. Our modern lives are connected to a network of copper wires. Power outages are still rare here. But our electricity system is being transformed: renewable energies are to replace the fossil fuels that have reliably supplied us until now.
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The magnetic North Pole is moving forward faster and faster. Could the North and South Poles even swap positions? What would that mean for life on the planet and will we humans then become disoriented?
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