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Fascinating Fails
Invasion of the Toxic Toads: Nature's Most Successful Failure
How do these toads keep failing upward, and what can we do about it?
How To Accidentally Invent A Color
Following those often jaw-dropping (and sometimes hilarious fails) through time to today, host Maren Hunsberger asks: "What's next?". By talking to today's innovative young scientists, engineers, artists, and other big thinkers, we see how the mistakes of the past are leading us into the science of tomorrow...and toward a better future.
How To Accidentally Invent A Color
Season 1 Episode 1 | 18m 52s | CC
One of the most colorful accidents in history, malaria, and...genetically engineered bacteria?! These are all part of the story behind the color purple. Maren Hunsberger travels through time in London to follow the thread of purple's story from ancient plants to the industrial revolution, and all the way to a lab growing microbes that could just save the world's water.
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