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Wendover Productions turns humanity's first encounter with extraterrestrial intelligence into a puzzle of astronomy, mathematics and translation. But the most consequential question is not whether we can understand an al…
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Wendover Productions makes a bold geographical claim: if humanity could start civilization again, Dhaka, Bangladesh, might be the best place on Earth to build its central city. The argument is attractive, neatly assemble…
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Wendover Productions reaches the correct answer in its 2016 examination of the European Union: the EU is not a sovereign country. But its explanation contains a fundamental legal confusion. It argues that the EU satisfie…
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Wendover Productions gets the central principle right: producing goods at scale can dramatically reduce unit costs, and transportation influences where factories should operate. But its demonstration of that principle co…
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Wendover Productions published a persuasive argument in October 2016: Airbus bet on enormous aircraft and hub-and-spoke aviation, Boeing bet on efficient smaller aircraft and point-to-point flying, and Boeing won. The ev…
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Wendover Productions puts the cost of keeping four astronauts on the Moon for one year at $36 billion. The calculation looks impressively detailed: two Saturn V launches, lunar landers, an inflatable habitat, seven green…
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Wendover Productions' Why Trains Suck in America presents a persuasive explanation for America's failing passenger rail system: freight companies own the tracks, passenger trains take second place, infrastructure is expe…
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Wendover Productions makes maritime law look like a fascinating loophole: register a ship somewhere convenient, sail beyond a country's coastline, and suddenly a different set of laws applies. The problem is that this ex…
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Wendover Productions' 2016 video, Why College is so Expensive, ends with a remarkable financial claim: college does not really cost $128,000 for four years. Its true cost, the narrator declares, is negative $500,000, bec…
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Wendover Productions' 2016 explanation of European budget airlines gets much of the operational machinery right. Standardized aircraft, rapid turnarounds, cheaper airports, minimal cabin services and automated check-in g…
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Wendover Productions promises to explain why an $80 airline ticket costs so much. Its conclusion is remarkably precise: approximately $70 pays for the flight, leaving the airline with $10 in profit. There is a serious pr…
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Wendover Productions builds its episode around a sensational proposition: an ordinary number is so dangerous that possessing it can get an American arrested. The actual legal history is considerably more complicated, and…
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Wendover Productions gets the geographical puzzle right. Its conclusion is considerably less convincing. The video explains how competing Egyptian and Sudanese interpretations of colonial-era boundaries leave Bir Tawil o…
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Wendover Productions presents the history of accurate timekeeping as a chain of inventions that made modern civilization possible. Its central argument is compelling: better clocks transformed navigation, industry, trans…
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Wendover Productions’ 2016 video asks an important question: whose laws apply when human beings leave Earth? Unfortunately, its answers repeatedly turn complicated legal provisions into convenient rules that the actual l…
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Wendover Productions builds its explanation of nationhood around a deceptively simple proposition: other countries decide whether your country is a country. That makes for an entertaining premise, but it leaves out the l…
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Wendover Productions gets the central achievement right: Malcolm McLean helped transform freight transportation, and the shipping container became essential to modern international trade. But its account makes a complica…
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