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Why Are Beach Holes So Deadly?
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This Bridge’s Bizarre Design Nearly Caused It To Collapse
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All Dams Are Temporary
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A Love Letter to Cable-Stayed Bridges
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What’s Inside a Manhole?
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Why are the Dutch So Good at Waterworks?
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The Hidden Engineering Behind Texas's Top Tourist Attrac
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The Hidden Engineering of Wildlife Crossings
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What’s the Deal with Base Plates?
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Which Power Plant Does My Electricity Come From?
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Why Are Cooling Towers Shaped Like That?
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1.5 Years of Heavy Construction in 1.5 Hours
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The Wild Story of the Taum Sauk Dam Failure
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Is the World Really Running Out of Sand?
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When Infrastructure Gets Hacked
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The Hidden Engineering of Landfills
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Why Are Texas Interchanges So Tall?
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How French Drains Work
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When Natural Gas Had No Smell
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Why Bridges Don't Sink
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This Bridge Should Have Been Closed Years Before It Collapse
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The Most Confusing Part of the Power Grid
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Every Kind of Bridge Explained in 15 Minutes
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How Bridge Engineers Design Against Ship Collisions
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Connecting Solar to the Grid is Harder Than You Think
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Why Fish Ladders (Mostly) Work
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How the Hawaiian Power Grid Works
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How Fish Survive Hydro Turbines
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How To Install a Pipeline Under a Railroad
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Why Locomotives Don't Have Tires
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How The Channel Tunnel Works
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How Railroad Crossings Work
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How Engineers Straightened the Leaning Tower of Pisa
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Why Railroads Don't Need Expansion Joints
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Engineering The Largest Nuclear Fusion Reactor
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Which Is Easier To Pull? (Railcars vs. Road Cars)
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HEAVY CONSTRUCTION of a Sewage Pump Station - Ep 5
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How Much Is a Human Worth? (according to engineers)
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HEAVY CONSTRUCTION of a Sewage Pump Station - Ep 4
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Why Are Rails Shaped Like That?
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HEAVY CONSTRUCTION of a Sewage Pump Station - Ep 3
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Every Type of Railcar Explained in 15 Minutes
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HEAVY CONSTRUCTION of a Sewage Pump Station - Ep 2
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Do Droughts Make Floods Worse?
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HEAVY CONSTRUCTION of a Sewage Pump Station - Ep 1
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Every Construction Machine Explained in 15 Minutes
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Where Does Grounded Electricity Actually Go?
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