Be Smart - Season 11 / Year 2022

Season 11 / Year 2022
Episodes

Can We Actually Clean Up the Plastic Pollution Problem?

Here's What I Learned From Getting COVID

The Weird Brain Illusion That Makes Movies Work

How Do We Read? It's Magic (Almost)

What's Actually on the Other Side of a Mirror?

How Evolution Beat Cancer (…for Whales at Least)

Can Life Really Be Explained By Physics?

Can Illusions Teach Us How the Mind Works?

Are Humans Still Evolving?

This Machine Makes 300+ km/h Winds (INDOOR HURRICANE!)

Why You Can't Smell Yourself (and Other Ways Your Senses Lie to You)

Trying to Land a Plane (to Prove a Point)

Why No One Can Agree What's REALLY the Tallest Mountain

Why is Puberty so Weird?

The Crime Wave We Can Blame on… Neutron Stars?

The Biggest Myth About Climate Change

The Unbelievable Story of Earth's Most Epic Flood

Why 8 Eyes Are Better Than 2 (...If You're a Spider)

How We Solved the Greatest Riddle In Navigation

The Unexpected Measure that Makes the Modern World Tick

In Search of the Blackest Thing on Earth

Why Embarrassment Is Actually GOOD For You
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