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Season 2026
S2026E6 10 février 2026 8 min

Why The US Government Put 480 Million Needles Into the Sky

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Season 2026

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E1 14 janvier 2026 5 min

How Iran Smuggles 777 Airplanes

E2 21 janvier 2026 8 min

This Is The Worst Cell Phone of All Time

E3 28 janvier 2026 8 min

The Messy Science of Escalator Etiquette

E4 30 janvier 2026 7 min

The Debate Over the Best Parking Garage Design

E5 31 janvier 2026 7 min

The Weirdly Specific Science Behind Ship Camouflage

Ship camouflage

E6 10 février 2026 8 min

Why The US Government Put 480 Million Needles Into the Sky

E7 25 février 2026 8 min

The Debacle Behind The 2026 Olympic Hockey Rink

E8 27 février 2026 8 min

The Terrible Design of the US Mail Truck

E9 2 mars 2026 7 min

The Highway Loophole That Created The Worst Town in America

E10 17 mars 2026 8 min

Nobody Knows How Tylenol Works

E11 24 mars 2026 5 min

The Crazy-Fast Logistics of Flower Distribution

E12 27 mars 2026 7 min

The International Airport That Can Only Send Flights to Turkey

E13 8 avril 2026 7 min

Why Amtrak’s Most Important Tunnels Are Doomed

E14 10 avril 2026 8 min

The Ancient, Strange Coding Language that 95% of ATMs Use

E15 11 avril 2026 7 min

The Logistics of 911

E16 22 avril 2026 8 min

Why This River Doesn’t Reach the Ocean

E17 29 avril 2026 7 min

How the Nuclear Football Works

E18 30 avril 2026 7 min

How Forensic Linguistics Works

E19 12 mai 2026 8 min

The Seven Landlocked Countries That Have Navies

E20 28 mai 2026 9 min

Why They Built The World’s Longest Rail Tunnel

E21 29 mai 2026 8 min

Russia’s Weird, Bad Alternative Internet

E22 1 juin 2026 7 min

What’s The World’s Longest Domestic Flight?

E23 22 juin 2026 9 min

New Jersey’s Big Fight with FIFA

E24 25 juin 2026 6 min

Why This NYC Skyscraper Has Been Half-Finished Since 2018

E25 26 juin 2026 9 min

Why This Giant Bag of CO2 is Actually Useful

E26 14 juillet 2026 7 min

The Tests to Determine If AI Is Smarter Than a Person

E27 24 juillet 2026 6 min

How Tonga Made $100 Million Renting Space in Outer Space

E28 28 juillet 2026 8 min

The Missing Island Mexico Desperately Wants to Be Real

E29 5 août 2026 10 min

Why Almost Every Airline Has Sued This One Website

E30 11 août 2026 9 min

United and American's Bitter Feud Over Chicago's Airport

E31 22 août 2026 9 min

Why It's Illegal to Call a Drug "Stroebenazoline"

E32 26 août 2026 8 min

The Weird, Scary Airspace Over Washington DC

E33 1 septembre 2026 8 min

These Are HAl's Worst Mistakes of the Year

E34 11 septembre 2026 8 min

This Is The Shortest Train in the United States

E35 23 septembre 2026 8 min

Why Rolex Won't Sell You Their Most Expensive Watches

E36 30 septembre 2026 7 min

What is the World's Biggest Hole Humans Have Ever Dug?

E37 7 octobre 2026 7 min

The Logistics of NYC Waste Management

E38 14 octobre 2026 9 min

The Logistics of IMAX

E39 19 octobre 2026 7 min

How Planes Fly Without Air Traffic Control

E40 30 octobre 2026 9 min

The Logistics of the NYC Marathon

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