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