Which power plant does my electricity come from?
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Is the world really running out of sand?
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The hidden engineering of landfills
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How French drains work
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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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How do fish ladders work?
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Why railroad tracks 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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Every construction machine explained in fifteen minutes
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Do droughts make floods worse?
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Where does grounded electricity actually go?
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Philadelphia I-95 bridge collapse explained
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Why is desalination so difficult? An overview of seawater desalination: Removing salt to make drinkable water from the ocean.
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Why river channels shift and meander, and what tools engineers use to manage the process (Part 1)
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Why some roadways are made of styrofoam
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An overview of the substation attack in Moore County, North Carolina in December 2022
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How long would society last during a total grid collapse?
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These metals destroy themselves to prevent rust
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How do you steer a drill below the earth?
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How we track COVID-19 (and other weird stuff) in sewage
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What really happened during the 2003 blackout?
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Can you pump sewage? When it comes to wastewater, what goes down must come up again
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Rebuilding the Oroville Dam spillways
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How retaining walls work, and why they collapse
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What really happened at the Millennium Tower?
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Repairing underground, high voltage power lines is nearly impossible
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Why things fall off cranes
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Why cranes collapse
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Surfside condo collapse: What we know so far
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How sewer pipes work (feat. fake poop)
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What really happened at the Hernando de Soto bridge?
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What really happened at the Oroville Dam Spillway?
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What is "Water Hammer"? - An explanation and demonstration
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What really happened during the Texas power grid outage?
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Why beaches disappear (and how we mitigate it)
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What is a tuned mass damper?
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What is a culvert?
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Was Roman concrete better?
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