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The portfolio

Channels.

Four documentary channels on consequences, systems, money, and living things—two documentaries a week on each—and four channels of short animated explainers.

8 channels / Documentaries and short explainers / YouTube

01The Consequence Chain logo

The Consequence Chain

The choices, pressures, mistakes, and turning points that make an extraordinary outcome possible.

Coverage

  • Failure, fraud & collapse
  • Dark stories & turning points
Decisions, disasters & consequencesYouTube
02How It Holds Together logo

How It Holds Together

The mechanisms, infrastructure, and everyday machines that keep the built world running.

Coverage

  • Engineered & natural systems
  • Everyday systems, machines & how things are made
Physical & engineered systemsYouTube
03Who Gets Paid logo

Who Gets Paid

Who pays, who gets paid, and where the money and the work actually go.

Coverage

  • Hidden businesses & places
  • Money & work
Money, work & hidden businessesYouTube

Short explainers.

01Engineering in Disguise logo

Engineering in Disguise

Everyday objects hide clever engineering. Each short animated explainer opens one up and shows the mechanism inside.

Coverage

  • Locks
  • Light bulbs
  • Touchscreens
  • Kitchen gadgets
How things actually workYouTube
04Centuries in the Making logo

Centuries in the Making

Short animated explainers that trace something you can see today back through history.

Coverage

  • Civilizations
  • Inventions
  • Cultures
  • Borders
  • Cities
Why the world ended up this wayYouTube