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Sun, Mar 29, 2015
The Big Picture traces the key routes and networks for illegal activities around the world. It looks at drug trade in Vermont and examines how some criminal organization out perform some of the most profitable businesses in the world. It also examines how some industries (prisons, law enforcement, and criminal justice) depend on crime for their existence visiting the Territorial Prison System in Fremont County, Colorado.
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Fri, Apr 3, 2015
All sex is not created equal, and some places are blessed with more of it than others. As we deconstruct the data of our everyday lives, sometimes that includes surprising, intimate details from our private lives. Host Kal Penn takes a look at what's going on in bedrooms all across the world.
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Sun, Apr 5, 2015
Kal Penn goes "viral" to uncover what causes and drives pandemics around the world, and what can make them even more dangerous than you think. Go to a Chinese animal market where one of the most infamous pandemics of our age started. Visit scientists on the front lines fighting the most dangerous creatures in the world, the mosquito. See how a top-secret lab is preparing us for the scariest "what if" situations of bioterrorism in the U.S.
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Sun, Apr 26, 2015
Waste? Garbage? Yucky stuff that smells bad? Whether we're trashing it, reusing it or flushing it, the whole idea with junk is getting as far away from it as possible. Look at the numbers, though, and you'll quickly see that you're wasting some golden opportunities. All around the world there are clever people making the most of our trash and getting filthy, stinking rich.
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Sun, May 3, 2015
Kal Penn explores the everyday ways we've made ourselves at home in outer space. From GPS to TV broadcasts, a remarkable number of our everyday activities rely on outer space. Visit the Utah desert where people with aspirations to colonize Mars simulate living on the planet to research its viability. In Kansas, hunt for 40,000-year-old meteorites. Finally, a homemade satellite is built and launched with college-age enthusiasts.