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Episodes — Season 1
- 01 Can we dig our way through the Earth?
- 02 Could We Live on the Moon?
- 03 Should we use lotteries instead of elections?
- 04 How Much Does Life Weigh?
- 05 Will we move onto the water?
- 06 Can Algorithms Make Us Healthy?
- 07 What if there were no mucus?
- 08 How do we solve the nuclear waste puzzle?
- 09 What if Fear Didn't Exist?
- 10 What if the ice disappeared?
- 11 Do We All hear the Same Thing?
- 12 Are we too pessimistic?
- 13 Does the Perfect Song Exist?
- 14 Are we alone in space?
- 15 Why Do We Eat What We Eat?
- 16 What is the secret of light?
- 17 Can we save the trees?
- 18 What if dust didn't exist?
- 19 Geoengineering: Earth's Last Resort
- 20 Could Algae Save the Planet?
- 21 Will Messenger RNA Save Us From Cancer?
- 22 Will We Stop Flying?
- 23 Will We Like Robots?
- 24 The Purpose of Parasites
- 25 Could We Sleep Less?
- 26 Are Cryptocurrencies the Future?
- 27 Do We Live in a Black Hole?
- 28 The Power of Dreams
- 29 Where do people migrate to?
- 30 What Do Animals Talk About?
- 31 Are we getting dumber?
- 32 Do Computers Have Biases?
- 33 How can everyone be fed?
- 34 Are We Doing More Drugs?
- 35 Are We Ready for Mars?
- 36 Can we glimpse the afterlife?
- 37 Could we become immortal?
- 38 Could We Live Without Agriculture?
- 39 How dangerous is space weather?
- 40 Will we travel to Mars?
- 41 Can We Create Money from Nothing?
- 42 How do we end wars?
- 43 Is Space Being Stolen From Us?
- 44 What Power Do Thoughts Have?
- 45 Can We Trust Ourselves?
- 46 Are we more intelligent in swarms?
- 47 The Search for a Universal Theory
- 48 Can we turn crap into gold?
- 49 Are You Psychopathic?
- 50 How does a wave become rogue?
- 51 Do We Need Economic Growth?
- 52 Are we gambling away our lives?
- 53 Why do we have limits?
- 54 Where to Find Perfect Energy?
- 55 What if sharks disappeared?
- 56 Are Animals Self-Aware?
- 57 Why do We Fall in Love?
- 58 What if nature had a price?
- 59 Can we copy our blood?
- 60 Why do we hate?
- 61 Could We Bring Back the Wooly Mammoth?
- 62 Can seals go to court?
- 63 Do colors manipulate us?
- 64 Will there be a new 'human species'?
- 65 Is There a Male Fertility Crisis?
- 66 Can Cities Save the World?
- 67 When the Heavens Rain Down
- 68 Do Fungi Rule Us?
- 69 The A***hole Effect
- 70 How It All Ends
- 71 When Will the World End?
- 72 How to Travel Through Time?
- 73 Mind Reading: A Reality?
- 74 Surviving Our Polluted Planet
- 75 The Chaos of Chance
- 76 Who Owns the Sea?
- 77 Do Animals Appreciate Beauty?
- 78 Will a new wind soon blow?
- 79 Are we going to disappear beneath the waves?
- 80 Are We All Bisexual?
- 81 The Advent of Turbo-Evolution Now playing
- 82 Why do we lose our memory?
- 83 Humanity's True Nature
- 84 Can We Live Without Electricity?
- 85 What Happens When the Glaciers Disappear?
- 86 Could We Reach the Stars?
- 87 Is Lying Good For Us?
- 88 Will we one day be cryogenically frozen?
- 89 Will we run out of sand?
- 90 What's So Funny?
- 91 The Origin of Life
- 92 Does Punishment Work?
- 93 What Are Our Imaginations For?
- 94 Can We Trick Our Genes?
- 95 Amasia: The Supercontinent of the Future
- 96 Do Dogs Really Love Us?
- 97 Do We Need Corruption?
- 98 Are Animals Cleverer than Us?
- 99 Are Billionaires a Problem?
- 100 How strongly does our mother tongue shape us?
- 101 Do We Live in a Multiverse?
- 102 Does History Repeat Itself?
- 103 Are there too many of us on Earth?
- 104 Is stress good for us?
- 105 Do Disasters Make Us Better?
- 106 Is the Metaverse Real?
- 107 Do We All Have a Doppelganger?
- 108 Could We Programme Evoluton?
- 109 Is There an Upside to Climate Change?
- 110 Do We Need More Utopias?
- 111 Can we control clouds?
- 112 Does Sugar Make Us Stupid?
- 113 What if the poles reversed again?
- 114 What power do smells have?
- 115 Can We Shrink the Economy?
- 116 How Do Plants Live?
- 117 How to Become Popular
- 118 Do We Need to Have Power?
- 119 Should Humans Be Smaller?
- 120 Is AI Out of Control?
- 121 Are Invasive Species Always a Problem?
- 122 Would We Be Happier Without Happiness?
- 123 Why Do We Cry?
- 124 Could Sea Currents Change?
- 125 Could Matriarchy Be the Solution?
- 126 Are Aliens Like Us?
- 127 Is Pain Necessary?
- 128 Do Animals Have Better Societies?
- 129 How Powerful are Maps?
- 130 Does Quantum Physics Change Our Reality?
- 131 Why Do We Have Less Sex?
- 132 Has Slavery Made Us Racist?
- 133 Why Is Housing So Expensive?
- 134 Can We Make Friends with Our Enemies?
- 135 Can We Replace Pollination?
- 136 Are We Taking Enough Risks?
- 137 Who Really Were Our Ancestors?
- 138 Is a World Without Violence Possible?
- 139 Can We Remember Precisely?
- 140 What Holds the Universe Together?
- 141 Do We Need God?
- 142 What Protests Work?
- 143 How do Children Function?
- 144 Will We Grieve Differently in Future?
- 145 Do We Need Weapons for Peace?
- 146 What Should We Actually Eat?
- 147 Are We Ready for Aliens?
- 148 How Important is Our Microbiome?
- 149 Why Is Wealth So Unfairly Distributed?
- 150 What Makes Us Depressed?
- 151 Does the Perfect Code Exist?
- 152 Are We Ready for World Government?
- 153 Are We Wasting Period Blood?
- 154 Can We Feel Time?
- 155 How Does Water Create Life?
- 156 Are Cyborgs the Future?
- 157 Can We Save Truth?
- 158 Can We Cure Addictions?
- 159 Are We Too Curious?
- 160 What Did Dinosaurs Really Look Like?
- 161 Can We Outwit Viruses?
- 162 Where Does Madness Begin?
- 163 Should We Be Bored More Often?
- 164 How Powerful is Disinformation?
- 165 Why Do Civilisations Fall?
- 166 Should We Argue More?
- 167 How Mathematic is the Universe?
- 168 Is The World Better Than We Think?
- 169 How Smart Are the Animals We Eat
- 170 Does Failure Help Us Succeed?
- 171 Was Stone-Age Man Dumber Than Us?
- 172 The Age of Fire
- 173 Why Does Music Move Us?
- 174 Optimisation: Is It Making Us Mad?
- 175 Is a Superbug Pandemic Coming?
- 176 Can Humans Hibernate?
- 177 Does Society Need Alcohol?
- 178 ...We Make Free Decisions?
- 179 What was there before the Big Bang?
- 180 How Powerful Are Images?
- 181 How Does the Female Orgasm Work?
- 182 Is Space Debris Dangerous for Earth?
- 183 Can Our Brains Still Concentrate?
- 184 Why Do We Love Horror?
- 185 Does Planet Nine Really Exist?
- 186 Are We An Evolutionary Superspecies?
- 187 Are Wasps Game Changers of Evolution?
- 188 Why do we sing?
- 189 How monogamous are humans?
- 190 Why Do We Love Gold?
- 191 Do Emotions Control the Markets?
- 192 What if life were mirrored?
- 193 Do we need the alpha male?
- 194 Black Holes: A Future Energy Source?
- 195 Is Brain Washing Possible?
- 196 Why Are We So Competitive?
- 197 Do We Need Siblings?
- 198 Has Globalisation Failed?
- 199 How does trash change the world?
- 200 Is vacation really relaxing?
- 201 Can we change?
- 202 Is there another Earth in the universe?
- 203 Can AI Feel Us?
- 204 Does a Trauma Lie Dormant in Everyone?
- 205 What Lies Behind UFOs?
- 206 Can states go into debt indefinitely?
- 207 Does scrolling make teens stupid?
- 208 Can We Live Without Work?
- 209 Is there a female fertility crisis?
- 210 Is Loneliness Contagious?
- 211 How Do You Become a Genius?
- 212 Can We Stop Mass Extinction?
- 213 Can We Control Our Hormones?
- 214 Episode 214
- 215 Episode 215
- 216 Episode 216
42: The Answer to Almost Everything
Synopsis
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.
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