Pushing Painkillers | An Untapped Market | S44-E1

Pushing Painkillers | An Untapped Market | S44-E1

Doctors once shied away from using opioids to treat chronic pain, citing the risk of addiction. But in the 1970s, a new generation of doctors started to argue that opioids should be reconsidered, and that allowing terminal patients to suffer in agony is torturous. As the palliative care movement grows, Purdue Frederick, a small pharmaceutical company, sees an opportunity to bring opioids out of the shadows and to the masses...to devastating effect.

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The Mystery of Stuxnet | Cracking the Code | S47-E1

The Mystery of Stuxnet | Cracking the Code | S47-E1

In the summer of 2010, a mysterious computer virus called Stuxnet lands on the desk of Symantec cybersecurity analyst Liam O’Murchu. Stuxnet is unlike anything O’Murchu has ever seen: a highly sophist...

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Man with No Memory | The Accident  | S46-E1

Man with No Memory | The Accident | S46-E1

Even as recently as the early 1950s, we didn’t understand that there were different types of memory, or how the brain processed and stored memories. Then, in 1953, a radical surgery by a reckless doct...

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Predator Drone | From Albatross to Amber | S45-E1

Predator Drone | From Albatross to Amber | S45-E1

What if you could design a spy plane that could be flown remotely and hover in the sky for hours, providing reconnaissance for troops on the ground? In the early 1980s, the visionary inventor Abe Kare...

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Social Media | Find Your Friends | S43-E1

Social Media | Find Your Friends | S43-E1

Today social media is such a dominant part of our daily lives, it's hard to believe that only 20 years ago, it didn’t exist. Then a newly single tech entrepreneur named Jonathan Abrams wondered: What ...

12 Aug 202144min

Fracking | The Source Rock | S42-E1

Fracking | The Source Rock | S42-E1

In the late 1970s, oil and natural gas fields across the U.S. were drying up, making the country increasingly dependent on foreign oil. Then, a Texas energy magnate named George Mitchell decided to tr...

15 Jul 202146min

Cryonics | Immortality On Ice | S41-E1

Cryonics | Immortality On Ice | S41-E1

Not everyone chooses burial or cremation after death. Some believe in cryonics, freezing their bodies in the hopes of being reanimated sometime in the future. Bob Nelson, a TV repairman with no scient...

17 Jun 202138min

Storm Chasers | Tornado Alley | S40-E1

Storm Chasers | Tornado Alley | S40-E1

No extreme weather phenomenon fascinates us more than tornadoes. For most of human history, very little was known about how these graceful yet violent columns of swirling air formed or behaved. Then, ...

27 Mai 202139min

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