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January 16, 2015
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- {"name":"Public Broadcasting Service","id":14}
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- {"name":"Documentary","id":99}
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- "http://video.pbs.org/program/how-we-got-now/"
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"Returning Series"- "Ended"
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- {"season_id":64590,"season_number":1}
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- "How We Got To Now with Steven Johnson is a six part documentary series that reveals the story behind the remarkable ideas that made modern life possible; the unsung heroes that brought them into the world – and the unexpected and bizarre consequences each of these innovations has triggered."
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- "30,000 year old traces of a desire to record sound are located in caves, how radio influenced the civil rights movement, the weapon that laid the ground work for today's mobile phones, and the role of the ultrasound in modern medicine."
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- {"episode_id":1036912,"episode_number":6}
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- {"episode_id":1036911,"episode_number":5}
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- {"episode_id":1036910,"episode_number":4}
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- {"episode_id":1036909,"episode_number":3}
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- {"episode_id":1036908,"episode_number":2}
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- "Ice delivery becomes big business, the father of frozen foods, Clarence Birdseye, and his vision for the future, and penguins who live in the desert."
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- "The pioneers of light; Edison's light bulb; a French scientist accidentally discovers a neon light."
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- "The invention of the mirror gives rise to the Renaissamce; glass lenses reveal worlds within worlds worlds; glass is essential; for communication in the deep ocean; glass lens allows millions to watch a man walk on the moon."
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- "With no natural light, submarines re-invent the workday. Frustrated with hundreds of local time zones, a railroad clerk fights to standardize time. Navigation, travel, and technology advances result from unrecognized contributions to time."
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- "Dirty water is transformed with a series of innovations - Chicago builds America's first sewer system, and Jersey City makes water safe for drinking (and bikinis). Manufacturing is transformed with the elimination of dust."
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- "\"Magical Appearances\" explores how swallows magically appear each spring and asks how did complex and beautiful insects like butterflies suddenly arrive in the summer.\nThe discovery of the swallow’s epic migration and the revelation that butterflies could metamorphose into totally different looking adults were scientific stories both cloaked in mystery and controversy."
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- {"episode_id":1036874,"episode_number":10}
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- {"episode_id":1036872,"episode_number":9}
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- {"episode_id":1036871,"episode_number":8}
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- {"episode_id":1036870,"episode_number":7}
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- {"episode_id":1036869,"episode_number":6}
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- "\"Strange Parents\" asks how we usually recognise animals as either male or female and how each sex normally plays a particular role in their own life cycle.\nHowever both hyenas and seahorses completely break the gender rules."
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- "We'll find out how nature is incredibly inventive and has produced two unique mechanisms of natural construction that have fascinated scientists for centuries; weaving in birds and silk."
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- "In this episode we explore the remarkable adaptations of two creatures that have evolved to survive the most challenging of conditions and seem to defy the laws of nature."
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- "Plants and animals have some curious super senses that enable them to see, hear and feel things that are quite invisible to us."
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- "After initially gaining frightening reputations, it's now known that gorillas and bats are a lot gentler and considerate than their early reputations suggest."
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