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S2026 · E16 — Why This River Doesn’t Reach the Ocean
S2026:E16 · Why This River Doesn’t Reach the Ocean
26 episodes in this season
How Iran Smuggles 777 Airplanes
5 min
This Is The Worst Cell Phone of All Time
8 min
The Messy Science of Escalator Etiquette
The Debate Over the Best Parking Garage Design
7 min
The Weirdly Specific Science Behind Ship Camouflage
Why The US Government Put 480 Million Needles Into the Sky
The Debacle Behind The 2026 Olympic Hockey Rink
The Terrible Design of the US Mail Truck
The Highway Loophole That Created The Worst Town in America
Nobody Knows How Tylenol Works
The Crazy-Fast Logistics of Flower Distribution
The International Airport That Can Only Send Flights to Turkey
Why Amtrak’s Most Important Tunnels Are Doomed
The Ancient, Strange Coding Language that 95% of ATMs Use
The Logistics of 911
Why This River Doesn’t Reach the Ocean
How the Nuclear Football Works
How Forensic Linguistics Works
The Seven Landlocked Countries That Have Navies
Why They Built The World’s Longest Rail Tunnel
9 min
Russia’s Weird, Bad Alternative Internet
What’s The World’s Longest Domestic Flight?
New Jersey’s Big Fight with FIFA
Why This NYC Skyscraper Has Been Half-Finished Since 2018
6 min
Why This Giant Bag of CO2 is Actually Useful
The Tests to Determine If AI Is Smarter Than a Person
