TV Schedule for CuriosityStream
Tuesday, October 20th TV listings for CuriosityStream
The burst of the enormous tulip bubble in 1637 Netherlands serves as reminder of how quickly financial holdings and futures can rise or drop.
The Lightbulb Moment Like Button: The Unintended Consenquences of the Facebook Like Button
When first presented with the like button Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg worried that a quick thumbs up or down would discourage more meaningful online interaction but eventually his team changed his mind and transformed the world.
The Lightbulb Moment Cubicle: How the Cubicle Became Universally Hated
The Cubicle was originally designed to set workers free; a futuristic designer named Robert Propst dreamed up the cubicle as a groovy 1960s workplace utopia that would unleash the modern knowledge worker's vast untapped potential.
The Lightbulb Moment Barcode: How the Barcode Shaped Our Modern Economy
Barcodes have radically changed global commerce, helping fuel the rise of everything from massive companies like Walmart to world powers like China, and it all started with a man daydreaming on a beach in 1949.
The Lightbulb Moment Florida: How Real Estate Rogues Invented Florida as We Know It
Florida wasn't always the Sunshine State; in the 1920s, an army of real estate boosters set out to redefine Florida from an economic backwater to a ritzy vacation destination, sparking a land boom the likes of which America had never seen before.
The Lightbulb Moment Mauve: The Fake Color That Made Our Modern World
In 1856, a chemistry student accidentally created a strange substance with a rich purple hue; Mauve takes over the fashion industry, make food look more appetizing, and enable stunning advances in medicine.
The Lightbulb Moment Vanilla: The Bean That Shaped the Future of Food
In 1841 on the small island of Réunion, a 12-year-old slave did something no one had done before; the vanilla bean takes the world by storm, sparking the artificial flavor revolution and forever changing how we eat.
The Lightbulb Moment The Hollywood Actress That Laid the Groundwork for WiFi
During WWII, Actress Hedy Lamarr, deemed the world's most beautiful woman, invented a technology that laid the groundwork for the wireless internet of today.
The Lightbulb Moment Streaming: The Invention That Revolutionized Streaming Video
The early days of online video were plagued by low resolution, stamp-sized video, and unbearable buffering times but that changed when a breakthrough technology revolutionized streaming video and set the foundation for the era of Netflix.
The Lightbulb Moment Interstate: How the Interstate Connected and Divided America
Dwight Eisenhower's interstate highway system was the biggest infrastructure project of its time, a bold plan to connect all corners of America and boost the post-war economy, but it also ended up deepening the divide between rich and poor.
The Lightbulb Moment Edison: How Edison Reinvented Invention
Edison pioneered the world's first research and development center in Menlo Park and worked with a group of experimenters to methodically zero in on the holy grail of electric light.
The burst of the enormous tulip bubble in 1637 Netherlands serves as reminder of how quickly financial holdings and futures can rise or drop.
The Lightbulb Moment Like Button: The Unintended Consenquences of the Facebook Like Button
When first presented with the like button Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg worried that a quick thumbs up or down would discourage more meaningful online interaction but eventually his team changed his mind and transformed the world.
The Lightbulb Moment Cubicle: How the Cubicle Became Universally Hated
The Cubicle was originally designed to set workers free; a futuristic designer named Robert Propst dreamed up the cubicle as a groovy 1960s workplace utopia that would unleash the modern knowledge worker's vast untapped potential.
The Lightbulb Moment Barcode: How the Barcode Shaped Our Modern Economy
Barcodes have radically changed global commerce, helping fuel the rise of everything from massive companies like Walmart to world powers like China, and it all started with a man daydreaming on a beach in 1949.
The Lightbulb Moment Florida: How Real Estate Rogues Invented Florida as We Know It
Florida wasn't always the Sunshine State; in the 1920s, an army of real estate boosters set out to redefine Florida from an economic backwater to a ritzy vacation destination, sparking a land boom the likes of which America had never seen before.
The Lightbulb Moment Mauve: The Fake Color That Made Our Modern World
In 1856, a chemistry student accidentally created a strange substance with a rich purple hue; Mauve takes over the fashion industry, make food look more appetizing, and enable stunning advances in medicine.
The Lightbulb Moment Vanilla: The Bean That Shaped the Future of Food
In 1841 on the small island of Réunion, a 12-year-old slave did something no one had done before; the vanilla bean takes the world by storm, sparking the artificial flavor revolution and forever changing how we eat.
The Lightbulb Moment The Hollywood Actress That Laid the Groundwork for WiFi
During WWII, Actress Hedy Lamarr, deemed the world's most beautiful woman, invented a technology that laid the groundwork for the wireless internet of today.
The Lightbulb Moment Streaming: The Invention That Revolutionized Streaming Video
The early days of online video were plagued by low resolution, stamp-sized video, and unbearable buffering times but that changed when a breakthrough technology revolutionized streaming video and set the foundation for the era of Netflix.
The Lightbulb Moment Interstate: How the Interstate Connected and Divided America
Dwight Eisenhower's interstate highway system was the biggest infrastructure project of its time, a bold plan to connect all corners of America and boost the post-war economy, but it also ended up deepening the divide between rich and poor.
The Lightbulb Moment Edison: How Edison Reinvented Invention
Edison pioneered the world's first research and development center in Menlo Park and worked with a group of experimenters to methodically zero in on the holy grail of electric light.
Connections with James Burke Limitless Energy
How a journey that began thousands of years ago with the Inca and the potato connects to a mad scientist in a castle and German beer; the brink of a future with clean, limitless energy.
Connections with James Burke In the Net
James opens a cabinet of curiosities to discover how the French Revolution, wallpaper and NORAD brought about the rise of big data; a world where humans finally merge with the internet.
Connections with James Burke Designer Genes
A cup of coffee in the 18th century takes James to the pioneering woman who discovered the structure of DNA and a future with genetically engineered people.
Connections with James Burke None of This is Real
Dog pee, the Polaroid camera and rocket fuel lead to a future where AI is indistinguishable from human intelligence.
Connections with James Burke Seeing the Future
James connects the dots between Napoleon's toothpick and the Nielsen TV ratings to see how scientists have built the quantum computer, a data-processing machine so powerful that it can predict the future.
Connections with James Burke The End of Scarcity
James jumps in the sensory deprivation tank with a man who took LSD with dolphins to discover how syphilis in the French aristocracy kicked off a journey to the nanofabricator, a machine that can build anything, molecule by molecule, for free.
Connections with James Burke Limitless Energy
How a journey that began thousands of years ago with the Inca and the potato connects to a mad scientist in a castle and German beer; the brink of a future with clean, limitless energy.
Connections with James Burke In the Net
James opens a cabinet of curiosities to discover how the French Revolution, wallpaper and NORAD brought about the rise of big data; a world where humans finally merge with the internet.
Connections with James Burke Designer Genes
A cup of coffee in the 18th century takes James to the pioneering woman who discovered the structure of DNA and a future with genetically engineered people.
Connections with James Burke None of This is Real
Dog pee, the Polaroid camera and rocket fuel lead to a future where AI is indistinguishable from human intelligence.
Connections with James Burke Seeing the Future
James connects the dots between Napoleon's toothpick and the Nielsen TV ratings to see how scientists have built the quantum computer, a data-processing machine so powerful that it can predict the future.
Connections with James Burke The End of Scarcity
James jumps in the sensory deprivation tank with a man who took LSD with dolphins to discover how syphilis in the French aristocracy kicked off a journey to the nanofabricator, a machine that can build anything, molecule by molecule, for free.
Connections with James Burke Limitless Energy
How a journey that began thousands of years ago with the Inca and the potato connects to a mad scientist in a castle and German beer; the brink of a future with clean, limitless energy.
Connections with James Burke In the Net
James opens a cabinet of curiosities to discover how the French Revolution, wallpaper and NORAD brought about the rise of big data; a world where humans finally merge with the internet.
Connections with James Burke Designer Genes
A cup of coffee in the 18th century takes James to the pioneering woman who discovered the structure of DNA and a future with genetically engineered people.
Connections with James Burke None of This is Real
Dog pee, the Polaroid camera and rocket fuel lead to a future where AI is indistinguishable from human intelligence.
Connections with James Burke Seeing the Future
James connects the dots between Napoleon's toothpick and the Nielsen TV ratings to see how scientists have built the quantum computer, a data-processing machine so powerful that it can predict the future.