Superquark
Episode 10
S17 • E10 Aug 26, 2010 2h
Water in all its forms, in the spectacular images of the BBC documentary “Water”, which tells us how this element, in continuous transformation, has contributed to creating life on our planet. We will discover the factors that have determined the fate of societies and we will learn about the influence of water in every aspect of our history, from art to industry, from religion to war, from world domination to the decline of a civilization. Every year hundreds of thousands of Italians enter intensive care. Many stay there for a few days, others, instead, for months. Usually, isolated from relatives, apart from a few very brief contacts. But is it really so necessary? Where it was decided to open the doors of intensive care, there was no turning back. Cristiano Barbarossa went to learn more about the developments of this new medical approach. The long shadow of livestock farming: how much carbon dioxide is released into the environment to eat a steak?
