Geography and Environmental Sciences Professor John Aubert is having a hard time connecting to his now teenage daughter, and Sarah Luchini may be in over her head, literally, as she tries to cross a river while hiking on the Appalachian Trail.

As a new, super competitive, graduate student Aditi thinks she has the perfect way to impress her advisor and labmates ... until one night it spirals a tiny bit out of control and while completing a community service requirement in high school, comedian Wyatt Cenac puts a drunk driving simulation to the test.

Journalist Jon Ronson is excited when he hears about some 'sentient' robots, but when he goes to interview them he finds both less and more than he ever expected and when The Colbert Report calls about her research, marine biologist Skylar Bayer finds an unexpected collaborator and friend in the fisherman helping her get scallops.

Biologist Latasha Wright is at work one day when she suddenly begins to experience intense pain and just before she leaves for her dream opportunity to teach marine science on the Red Sea, Latasha Wright gets a call that puts her plans in jeopardy.

Steve Whyte decides to try exposure therapy to overcome his fear of germs.