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Explainers

Clear answers to big questions about how the world works.

• I thought this rotating house was impossible.
• How the Channel Tunnel Works
• Why the Panama Canal is Dying
• What If Earth got Kicked Out of the Solar System? Rogue Earth
• London Shuts Down for Snow
• How Car Dealerships Scam America
• How to Decode Credit Card Numbers
• Why This 25,000 Foot Mountain Has Never Been Climbed
• Why dark video is a terrible mess
• I visited the Yellowstone Zone of Death
• Why There Are NO Flights Between East Asia & South America
• How Taiwan Will Stop China's Invasion
• Brooklyn’s Only Interstate Is Doomed
• Why Fast Food Got So Expensive
• Can you solve the cheating royal riddle? - Dan Katz
• How to Terraform Mars - WITH LASERS
• Why Runways Have to Be Repainted
• A Tumbleweed Is a Plant That Killed Itself
• Why 1/3rd of France is Almost Empty
• Why Blue in Japan Looks Like Green to Americans
• Is Poland's tap water really protected by clams?
• The paradox at the heart of mathematics: Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem - Marcus du Sautoy
• Why do some people have a better sense of direction than others? - Oliver Baumann
• Why build a diving board twice the Olympic height?
• The Simple Genius of NYC’s Water Supply System
• What staying up all night does to your brain - Anna Rothschild
• Why Russia is Invading Ukraine
• Why Russia's Biggest Threat is Actually China
• South Africa's Slow, Inevitable March Towards Collapse
• The US Military’s Massive Global Transportation System
• The Hidden Rules of Conversation
• This Mars rover's cool. But have you seen its wheels?
• What happens if you don’t put your phone in airplane mode? - Lindsay DeMarchi
• Is it normal to talk to yourself?
• How Geography is Pushing India & China to War
• Who Is Responsible For Climate Change? – Who Needs To Fix It?
• The Paradox of an Infinite Universe
• China's Catastrophic Oil & Gas Problem
• How do steroids affect your muscles— and the rest of your body? - Anees Bahji
• What causes panic attacks, and how can you prevent them? - Cindy J. Aaronson
• Why Progress Bars Don't Move Smoothly ▓▓▓░░░░░░
• Drone Delivery Was Supposed to be the Future. What Went Wrong?
• Countries That Are WAY Bigger Than You Think
• Food expiration dates don’t mean what you think - Carolyn Beans
• Why do cats have vertical pupils? - Emma Bryce
• One Typo, Wrong Continent
• How China Keeps Winning by Doing Nothing
• How North Korea Finally Made It Impossible to Escape

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