We are what we eat. We should eat like our grandparents. Food is culture. So many of life's maxims revolve around food, and so much of our economies can be explained by what we eat. But how did it get that way? Bestselling author and storyteller Daniel Stone takes audiences to the early 20th century to show how a band of adventurous explorers roamed the planet in search of novel foods to bring back to a hungry country. Mangoes, apricots, lemons, and dates. Hundreds of foods we think of as ours in fact came in an explorer's knapsack. Tomorrow's food, however, is more an equation of algorithms, robots, and market testing. Stone explains in colorful detail what will be coming to supermarkets next and the exciting—and at times concerning—changes in what's coming to our menus.

Did you know there are an astounding three million shipwrecks on earth? Or that more people have died on ships than ever will in car accidents? You probably haven't heard about the secret CIA operation to salvage a Russian submarine three miles deep, or how the USS Maine (remember it!) not only sank in Havana harbor in 1898 but was actually salvaged three years later in an elaborate bathtub operation. Or the time two nuclear bombs accidentally fell into the ocean, or when an Egyptian diver dove deeper than any human on earth. Bestselling author Daniel Stone pulls eye-popping episodes from his new book SINKABLE to demonstrate the endless expanse of water on our planet—and our efforts to try to tame it—is anything but lifeless and boring.

Throughout history, we often see stories of failure, loss, and defeat. We're told that failing—and often repeatedly—is a crucial part of success. But what can failure teach us? National bestselling author and historian Daniel Stone takes audiences on a character-driven adventure of some of history's wildest episodes of embarrassing defeat to demonstrate that triumph often comes later, and in unlikely ways. Stone includes stories of well-known luminaries, and lesser known characters who almost made it big, to make the unexpected argument that the line between winner and loser can be extremely thin, and sometimes doesn't exist at all.

Why do we eat what we eat? And where does it come from? National Geographic​ ​writer and author Daniel Stone will colorfully describe the​ ​dramatic,​ ​strange, and​ ​curious way America imported​ ​the items in the modern supermarket, and then​ ​exported the American diet all over the world.​ ​He'll then explain what globalization​ ​means for our food systems, and the changes coming to what we eat in the​ ​coming decade.