Under the Bay

A scientist utters the taboo of how breath itself originated.

Internet pioneer, Ted Nelson, describes how he came up with the idea of "hypertext" when he was a boy on his grandfather’s boat.

Additional narration by Woody Lissauer [Ted Nelson] and Ruskin Nohe-Moren [Theodore Schwenk].

A swim in the Chesapeake Bay prompts memories of microbes responsible for chalk, cloud behavior, ancient coastlines, and wisdom from Selma Alabama, to art installations, and Steve Kornacki's 'big board’ election map.

This episode reminisces on cryonics and what architects can learn from microbes about building sustainable structures.

In this episode, the narrator looks to both flocking behavior and meditation to find the meaning of peace.

Composer Dan Deacon is inspired by evolving water conditions influencing his music streaming in from the Chesapeake Bay.

Can we imagine a vaccine against oppression as the Women's March flows through the DC streets like Celtic interlacing patterns inscribed by 8th-century monks?

Tsetso, a marine biologist, encounters an algae bloom on Baltimore's Pier V. The red mahogony critters are enmeshed with the stone head of Christopher Columbus toppled into the City’s Inner Harbor by protestors the night before.