Big History S1E3: Gold Fever
- Aired: 2013-11-09
- Time: 22:00:00
- Runtime: 30 minutes
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Overview
This episode asks why mankind is gold crazy, and discovers there's a hard-wired reason we lust after it, and a microscopic explanation for why it shines. We reveal how the science behind our favorite metal drives men across oceans and continents, and how a difference in the way it's used in each hemisphere leads to a clash of civilizations.