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42: The Answer to Almost Everything
Year: 2021
Seasons: 1
Type: TV Series
Genre: Documentary
Overview
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.
Episodes
EP 1
Can we dig our way through the Earth?
EP 2
Could We Live on the Moon?
EP 3
Should we use lotteries instead of elections?
EP 4
How Much Does Life Weigh?
EP 5
Will we move onto the water?
EP 6
Can Algorithms Make Us Healthy?
EP 7
What if there were no mucus?
EP 8
How do we solve the nuclear waste puzzle?
EP 9
What if Fear Didn't Exist?
EP 10
What if the ice disappeared?
EP 11
Do We All hear the Same Thing?
EP 12
Are we too pessimistic?
EP 13
Does the Perfect Song Exist?
EP 14
Are we alone in space?
EP 15
Why Do We Eat What We Eat?
EP 16
What is the secret of light?
EP 17
Can we save the trees?
EP 18
What if dust didn't exist?
EP 19
Geoengineering: Earth's Last Resort
EP 20
Could Algae Save the Planet?
EP 21
Will Messenger RNA Save Us From Cancer?
EP 22
Will We Stop Flying?
EP 23
Will We Like Robots?
EP 24
The Purpose of Parasites
EP 25
Could We Sleep Less?
EP 26
Are Cryptocurrencies the Future?
EP 27
Do We Live in a Black Hole?
EP 28
The Power of Dreams
EP 29
Where do people migrate to?
EP 30
What Do Animals Talk About?
EP 31
Are we getting dumber?
EP 32
Do Computers Have Biases?
EP 33
How can everyone be fed?
EP 34
Are We Doing More Drugs?
EP 35
Are We Ready for Mars?
EP 36
Can we glimpse the afterlife?
EP 37
Could we become immortal?
EP 38
Could We Live Without Agriculture?
EP 39
How dangerous is space weather?
EP 40
Will we travel to Mars?
EP 41
Can We Create Money from Nothing?
EP 42
How do we end wars?
EP 43
Is Space Being Stolen From Us?
EP 44
What Power Do Thoughts Have?
EP 45
Can We Trust Ourselves?
EP 46
Are we more intelligent in swarms?
EP 47
The Search for a Universal Theory
EP 48
Can we turn crap into gold?
EP 49
Are You Psychopathic?
EP 50
How does a wave become rogue?
EP 51
Do We Need Economic Growth?
EP 52
Are we gambling away our lives?
EP 53
Why do we have limits?
EP 54
Where to Find Perfect Energy?
EP 55
What if sharks disappeared?
EP 56
Are Animals Self-Aware?
EP 57
Why do We Fall in Love?
EP 58
What if nature had a price?
EP 59
Can we copy our blood?
EP 60
Why do we hate?
EP 61
Could We Bring Back the Wooly Mammoth?
EP 62
Can seals go to court?
EP 63
Do colors manipulate us?
EP 64
Will there be a new 'human species'?
EP 65
Is There a Male Fertility Crisis?
EP 66
Can Cities Save the World?
EP 67
When the Heavens Rain Down
EP 68
Do Fungi Rule Us?
EP 69
The A***hole Effect
EP 70
How It All Ends
EP 71
When Will the World End?
EP 72
How to Travel Through Time?
EP 73
Mind Reading: A Reality?
EP 74
Surviving Our Polluted Planet
EP 75
The Chaos of Chance
EP 76
Who Owns the Sea?
EP 77
Do Animals Appreciate Beauty?
EP 78
Will a new wind soon blow?
EP 79
Are we going to disappear beneath the waves?
EP 80
Are We All Bisexual?
EP 81
The Advent of Turbo-Evolution
EP 82
Why do we lose our memory?
EP 83
Humanity's True Nature
EP 84
Can We Live Without Electricity?
EP 85
What Happens When the Glaciers Disappear?
EP 86
Could We Reach the Stars?
EP 87
Is Lying Good For Us?
EP 88
Will we one day be cryogenically frozen?
EP 89
Will we run out of sand?
EP 90
What's So Funny?
EP 91
The Origin of Life
EP 92
Does Punishment Work?
EP 93
What Are Our Imaginations For?
EP 94
Can We Trick Our Genes?
EP 95
Amasia: The Supercontinent of the Future
EP 96
Do Dogs Really Love Us?
EP 97
Do We Need Corruption?
EP 98
Are Animals Cleverer than Us?
EP 99
Are Billionaires a Problem?
EP 100
How strongly does our mother tongue shape us?
EP 101
Do We Live in a Multiverse?
EP 102
Does History Repeat Itself?
EP 103
Are there too many of us on Earth?
EP 104
Is stress good for us?
EP 105
Do Disasters Make Us Better?
EP 106
Is the Metaverse Real?
EP 107
Do We All Have a Doppelganger?
EP 108
Could We Programme Evoluton?
EP 109
Is There an Upside to Climate Change?
EP 110
Do We Need More Utopias?
EP 111
Can we control clouds?
EP 112
Does Sugar Make Us Stupid?
EP 113
What if the poles reversed again?
EP 114
What power do smells have?
EP 115
Can We Shrink the Economy?
EP 116
How Do Plants Live?
EP 117
How to Become Popular
EP 118
Do We Need to Have Power?
EP 119
Should Humans Be Smaller?
EP 120
Is AI Out of Control?
EP 121
Are Invasive Species Always a Problem?
EP 122
Would We Be Happier Without Happiness?
EP 123
Why Do We Cry?
EP 124
Could Sea Currents Change?
EP 125
Could Matriarchy Be the Solution?
EP 126
Are Aliens Like Us?
EP 127
Is Pain Necessary?
EP 128
Do Animals Have Better Societies?
EP 129
How Powerful are Maps?
EP 130
Does Quantum Physics Change Our Reality?
EP 131
Why Do We Have Less Sex?
EP 132
Has Slavery Made Us Racist?
EP 133
Why Is Housing So Expensive?
EP 134
Can We Make Friends with Our Enemies?
EP 135
Can We Replace Pollination?
EP 136
Are We Taking Enough Risks?
EP 137
Who Really Were Our Ancestors?
EP 138
Is a World Without Violence Possible?
EP 139
Can We Remember Precisely?
EP 140
What Holds the Universe Together?
EP 141
Do We Need God?
EP 142
What Protests Work?
EP 143
How do Children Function?
EP 144
Will We Grieve Differently in Future?
EP 145
Do We Need Weapons for Peace?
EP 146
What Should We Actually Eat?
EP 147
Are We Ready for Aliens?
EP 148
How Important is Our Microbiome?
EP 149
Why Is Wealth So Unfairly Distributed?
EP 150
What Makes Us Depressed?
EP 151
Does the Perfect Code Exist?
EP 152
Are We Ready for World Government?
EP 153
Are We Wasting Period Blood?
EP 154
Can We Feel Time?
EP 155
How Does Water Create Life?
EP 156
Are Cyborgs the Future?
EP 157
Can We Save Truth?
EP 158
Can We Cure Addictions?
EP 159
Are We Too Curious?
EP 160
What Did Dinosaurs Really Look Like?
EP 161
Can We Outwit Viruses?
EP 162
Where Does Madness Begin?
EP 163
Should We Be Bored More Often?
EP 164
How Powerful is Disinformation?
EP 165
Why Do Civilisations Fall?
EP 166
Should We Argue More?
EP 167
How Mathematic is the Universe?
EP 168
Is The World Better Than We Think?
EP 169
How Smart Are the Animals We Eat
EP 170
Does Failure Help Us Succeed?
EP 171
Was Stone-Age Man Dumber Than Us?
EP 172
The Age of Fire
EP 173
Why Does Music Move Us?
EP 174
Optimisation: Is It Making Us Mad?
EP 175
Is a Superbug Pandemic Coming?
EP 176
Can Humans Hibernate?
EP 177
Does Society Need Alcohol?
EP 178
...We Make Free Decisions?
EP 179
What was there before the Big Bang?
EP 180
How Powerful Are Images?
EP 181
EP 181
How Does the Female Orgasm Work?
EP 182
Is Space Debris Dangerous for Earth?
EP 183
Can Our Brains Still Concentrate?
EP 184
Why Do We Love Horror?
EP 185
Does Planet Nine Really Exist?
EP 186
Are We An Evolutionary Superspecies?
EP 187
Are Wasps Game Changers of Evolution?
EP 188
Why do we sing?
EP 189
How monogamous are humans?
EP 190
Why Do We Love Gold?
EP 191
Do Emotions Control the Markets?
EP 192
What if life were mirrored?
EP 193
Do we need the alpha male?
EP 194
Black Holes: A Future Energy Source?
EP 195
Is Brain Washing Possible?
EP 196
Why Are We So Competitive?
EP 197
Do we need siblings?
EP 198
EP 198
Episode 198
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