Through the Wormhole
Season 5 Episode 3 - Is Poverty Genetic?
7.6 ?
2010
Documentary
Are the wealthy just born in the right place at the right time? Are the poor victims of a system designed to keep them down? Or do physics and biology determine who is rich and who is poor? Throughout history, distribution of wealth is governed by hidden forces: DNA, environmental stress, patterns of human migration and even the laws of thermodynamics! Nature seems to demand winners and losers in life. But does this mean greed is king, and the rich can take what they want? Or is cooperation – between microorganisms, monkeys, and humans – more essential to survival of a species?
Episodes in Season 5
1
Is God an Alien Concept?
44 min
2
Is Luck Real?
44 min
3
Is Poverty Genetic?
44 min
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4
How to Collapse a Superpower
44 min
5
Does the Ocean Think?
44 min
6
Is a Zombie Apocalypse Possible?
44 min
7
Is Gravity an Illusion?
44 min
8
Will We Become God?
44 min
9
Is There a Shadow Universe?
44 min
10
When Did Time Begin?
44 min
