Episode 3

Third appointment with ‘Superquark’, the popular television magazine about science, nature and technology, created and hosted by Piero Angela. At the opening, with Nicolas Hulot’s crew we will go to the extreme tip of Siberia, Kamchatka, to meet the Evenio, nomadic reindeer herders and to discover a wild nature, where ice and the fire of volcanoes coexist. And then the bears, rarely filmed so close up. Next, we will talk about lotteries: the winners’ lives are often literally ruined by the enormous fortune that falls from the sky. Lorenzo Pinna went to Vanderbilt University in Neshville – where 35,000 Florida lottery winners studied – and then for Superquark he interviewed some of these “lucky/unlucky”. Alberto Angela will instead take viewers to Comacchio, where a Roman merchant ship sank in the Adriatic a short distance from the Po Delta, with a very singular cargo. And by going back to the cargo itself, the history of the ship will be reconstructed.