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Season 2026 · Episode 5

The Weirdly Specific Science Behind Ship Camouflage

0.07mJanuary 31, 2026

Ship camouflage

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Episode 1How Iran Smuggles 777 Airplanes
Episode 2This Is The Worst Cell Phone of All Time
Episode 3The Messy Science of Escalator Etiquette
Episode 4The Debate Over the Best Parking Garage Design
Episode 5The Weirdly Specific Science Behind Ship Camouflage
Episode 6Why The US Government Put 480 Million Needles Into the Sky
Episode 7The Debacle Behind The 2026 Olympic Hockey Rink
Episode 8The Terrible Design of the US Mail Truck
Episode 9The Highway Loophole That Created The Worst Town in America
Episode 10Nobody Knows How Tylenol Works
Episode 11The Crazy-Fast Logistics of Flower Distribution
Episode 12The International Airport That Can Only Send Flights to Turkey
Episode 13Why Amtrak’s Most Important Tunnels Are Doomed
Episode 14The Ancient, Strange Coding Language that 95% of ATMs Use
Episode 15The Logistics of 911
Episode 16Why This River Doesn’t Reach the Ocean
Episode 17How the Nuclear Football Works
Episode 18How Forensic Linguistics Works
Episode 19The Seven Landlocked Countries That Have Navies
Episode 20Why They Built The World’s Longest Rail Tunnel
Episode 21Russia’s Weird, Bad Alternative Internet
Episode 22What’s The World’s Longest Domestic Flight?
Episode 23New Jersey’s Big Fight with FIFA
Episode 24Why This NYC Skyscraper Has Been Half-Finished Since 2018
Episode 25Why This Giant Bag of CO2 is Actually Useful
Episode 26The Tests to Determine If AI Is Smarter Than a Person
Episode 27How Tonga Made $100 Million Renting Space in Outer Space
Episode 28The Missing Island Mexico Desperately Wants to Be Real
Episode 29Why Almost Every Airline Has Sued This One Website
Episode 30United and American's Bitter Feud Over Chicago's Airport
Episode 31Why It's Illegal to Call a Drug "Stroebenazoline"
Episode 32The Weird, Scary Airspace Over Washington DC
Episode 33These Are HAl's Worst Mistakes of the Year
Episode 34This Is The Shortest Train in the United States
Episode 35Why Rolex Won't Sell You Their Most Expensive Watches
Episode 36What is the World's Biggest Hole Humans Have Ever Dug?
Episode 37The Logistics of NYC Waste Management
Episode 38The Logistics of IMAX
Episode 39How Planes Fly Without Air Traffic Control
Episode 40The Logistics of the NYC Marathon