
Explores the scientific, social, economic and environmental consequences of supposedly time-saving inventions, ideas and objects. Throughout a lifetime, the minutes that are actually lost or saved can add up to days, weeks, months or even years.
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Air Date: 2021-08-27
At any given moment there are about 18,000,000 elevators operating around the world. They’re the backbone of the mode...
Air Date: 2021-09-03
Since the beginning of time, humanity has been on a quest to go further and get there faster. Over time, roads have e...
Air Date: 2021-09-10
Over a lifetime, many of us spend hours, days, weeks, and even months in their covered, climate-controlled, everythin...
Air Date: 2021-09-17
The invention of the sealable plastic container in 1946 changed the way we shop for food, the way we cook, and the wa...
Air Date: 2021-09-24
Discovered by accident in 1946, the microwave oven revolutionized kitchens and today is one of the most ubiquitous ho...
Air Date: 2021-10-01
Originally invented to save lives, the disposable cup would become an international symbol of busyness, a must-have m...
Air Date: 2021-10-08
The barcode shortened check-out times, advanced the global supply chain, accelerated next-day delivery, and made same...
Air Date: 2021-10-15
It’s responsible for nightly fights around the world; to pre-rinse or not? Whose turn to load? Knives up or down? But...