Three volunteers set out to find an amazing realization about the nature of life itself.

What Are We? Genius by Stephen Hawking

Premiered June 01, 2016
What Are We?

Three ordinary people take on challenges to try to understand what they really are. In this episode the volunteers are led to an amazing realization about the nature of life itself.

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Genius by Stephen Hawking

In Genius by Stephen Hawking, Professor Stephen Hawking challenges a selection of volunteers to think like the greatest geniuses in history and solve some of humanity's most enduring questions.

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