Season 2024
Episodios
1. South Korea Built a Mediocre New Capital in the Middle of Nowhere
2. Why There’s a Giant Barcode In The Middle of the Mojave Desert
3. The Special Design That Makes Library Books Indestructible
4. How the US Transports Its Nuclear Weapons
5. How Tokyo Made Itself Earthquake-Proof
6. Why a Big Box Store Started Solving Violent Crimes
7. The Very Real Australian Colleges with No Students
8. The Logistics of White House State Dinners
9. The Tiny Alaskan Town with the US’ Highest Taxicab Density
10. How This Michigan Town Accidentally Buried Itself in Sand
11. Why the FBI and the CIA Keep Lying to Each Other
12. Why It’s So Difficult to Build Subways in Rome
13. Why We’re Building a 790-Mile Wire From Kansas to Indiana
14. Why the North Korean Government Has a Tiny Office in NYC
15. Why So Many Trains Get Robbed in this One Spot
16. The Logistics of Prescribed Fires
17. Why Don’t Planes Carry Parachutes?
18. How the US Tests Nukes (Without Blowing Them Up)
19. The Man Who Stole an Entire Hotel
20. The Obscure System That Syncs All The World’s Clocks
21. How Storing Movies on Vinyl Lost RCA $650 Million
22. Why All Pro Basketball Players Shoot Free Throws Wrong
23. The One Company That Owns 2,390 Colors
24. The 517,431 Emails That Trained Siri
25. Why There’s a Pacific Ocean Port in Idaho
26. Why the Ocean Looks So Fake on Google Maps
27. Why the US Drops 14.7 Million Worms On Panama Every Week
28. Why Nobody Knows What 彁 Means
29. The Weird, Terrible Smartphones They Only Have in North Korea
30. Mumbai’s Crazy-Efficient, 99.9999% Accurate Food Delivery System
31. How the UN Translates Everything in Real-Time
32. How this Oklahoma Town Became Completely Uninhabitable
33. How America’s Largest, Most Secure Embassy Works
34. How the US Gov’s Riskiest Labs Contain Deadly Viruses
35. The One Long Wire Ruining America’s Most Important Train
36. The Super-Complex Security of the Paris Olympics
37. The Logistics of Mount Everest’s Base Camp
38. The $190 Million Tunnel Built for Just 1200 People
39. The Worst Mistakes We Made This Year
40. The Massively Bureaucratic System for Confirming a “Miracle”
41. The Board That Decides Every Place Name in the U.S.
42. Why 1% of the Stock Market is Tied to 11 Random Americans
43. How Ski Resorts Store Snow Over the Summer
44. Why Only One US City Doesn’t Add Fluoride to Its Water
45. How They Dug the Deepest Hole on Earth
46. How This Card Game Accidentally Became a Stock Market
47. How This Single 'M' Almost Ruined a US Presidency
48. How The USA’s Only Car-Free Village Works
49. Why Hawaii's H-3 is the Most Expensive Interstate Ever
50. The Crazy-Complex Process of Organizing a Container Ship
51. How This Waffle Restaurant Mastered Hurricanes
52. How Istanbul Moved Its Airport in Just 45 Hours
53. The US’ Surprisingly Busy Nuclear Emergency Team
54. How a Whole Country Got Cut Off From The Internet for 38 Days
55. How This Tunnel Accidentally Created an Immigration Loophole
56. The $18.8 Bil, Borderline Useless Bridge Between Hong Kong and Macau