About this season
Host Felipe Castanhari explores science, history, mysteries and marvels, uncovering mind-blowing facts with help from his lab buddies.
Episodes (8)
1. The Mysteries of the Bermuda Triangle
7.0Aired 4 August 2020 • 24 min
With Dr. Tay and AI assistant Briggs, Felipe makes sense of the mythical region linked to unexplained disappearances of airplanes and ships.
2. The 20 Million Deaths Caused by the Great Plague
7.5Aired 4 August 2020 • 25 min
Entire cities decimated. Twenty million dead. The origin of quarantine. The crew investigates how the plague swept across Europe during the Middle Ages.
3. Learning How to Time Travel
8.0Aired 4 August 2020 • 26 min
What is space-time bending? How does it connect to gravity? Felipe takes a closer look at the science behind time travel.
4. From Wolf to Dog
4.5Aired 4 August 2020 • 26 min
As Felipe visits the Shy Wolf Sanctuary, he examines how — thousands of years ago — certain wolves evolved into dogs and became closer to humans.
5. Zombie Apocalypse. What if it was real?
7.0Aired 4 August 2020 • 24 min
Felipe talks about flesh-eating creatures that are stranger than fiction, while the impressionable Betinho frets about an experiment at Dr. Tay's lab.
6. The Great Extinction
7.0Aired 4 August 2020 • 28 min
Could humans be wiped out from the planet like the dinosaurs? Is life on Earth facing another mass extinction? The lab crew investigates.
7. The Path to Artificial Superintelligence
6.0Aired 4 August 2020 • 27 min
Super-intelligent computers are not too far away, but will society be able to keep up with these advances? Could AI — like Briggs — turn against us?
8. Global Warming. A Big Conspiracy?
8.0Aired 4 August 2020 • 27 min
Earth has faced changes in climate before, so is global warming as alarming as people think? The team tries to educate a special guest on the issue.