Category Season 1 – The Birth of the Universe and the Rise of Humanity

Before the systematic inquiries of science, before the codification of organized religion, before a single glyph was ever carved to chronicle our history, humanity possessed a profoundly different epistemological framework for apprehending the universe. This was not an understanding derived…

Imagine waking up, not to an alarm clock, but to the distant roar of a creature that sees you as breakfast. For our Stone Age ancestors, this wasn’t a nightmare; it was just. Tuesday. This is the story of how…

How did we get here? How did one single species come to live on every continent, thrive in every climate, and build civilizations that can reach for the stars? Just look around you. The bustling cities, the quiet villages. The…

Picture a world shrouded in ice, some 400,000 years ago. It’s a world not yet our own, but it’s home to a different kind of human. They’re shorter, stockier, and powerfully built to survive the biting cold. They’re skilled hunters,…

Right now, there are over eight billion of us on this planet. Every single one is a thinking, feeling person, capable of watching this, of wondering, of asking. how? But have you ever really stopped to think about the journey…

Before the gentle blue of our oceans, before the first whisper of wind through the trees, there was a world of fire. Our story doesn’t start on some tranquil, green world. It begins on a cosmic battlefield a hellish ball…

For our world to be born, a star first had to die. That’s right. Our story doesn’t begin with a quiet little spark, but in the heart of a cosmic giant that lived and died long before our Sun was…

Take a look at your hand. The very atoms that make up your bones, the iron flowing through your blood, the carbon in your muscles… they haven’t always been here. They’re ancient travelers on a journey that started 13.8 billion…