PolyMatter - Aired Order - All Seasons

Season 2015

S2015E01 The Downvote Predicament
- June 24, 2015
- YouTube
S2015E02 How To Make a Flag (in 60 seconds)
- June 30, 2015
- YouTube
S2015E03 The Monty Hall Problem
- November 28, 2015
- YouTube
S2015E04 How to Start a Country (in 60 seconds)
- December 22, 2015
- YouTube

Season 2016

S2016E01 Why QWERTY?
- January 18, 2016
- YouTube
S2016E02 The Reddit Filter
- February 15, 2016
- YouTube
S2016E03 How Do HEX Color Codes Work? (in 60 seconds)
- March 4, 2016
- YouTube
S2016E04 How to Make a Flag (New)
- March 11, 2016
- YouTube
S2016E05 Skeuomorphism - Leather on your iPhone
- July 7, 2016
- YouTube
S2016E06 Why are flags so similar?
- August 8, 2016
- YouTube
S2016E07 Why Monopoly Doesn't Suck
- October 17, 2016
- YouTube
S2016E08 Why YouTube Comments Suck (and Reddit comments don't)
- December 15, 2016
- YouTube

Season 2017

S2017E01 Kim Jong-Un: A Brilliant Leader
- July 17, 2017
- YouTube
S2017E02 Your Memories are False
- August 29, 2017
- YouTube
S2017E03 How Not to Make Mobile Games
- September 8, 2017
- YouTube
S2017E04 The App Store Race to the Bottom
- September 15, 2017
- YouTube
S2017E05 The Problem with Foreign Aid
- September 29, 2017
- YouTube
S2017E06 Nudging: The Future of Advertising
- October 13, 2017
- YouTube
S2017E07 How Lies Become True On the Internet - Circular Sourcing
- October 27, 2017
- YouTube
S2017E08 The College Board Monopoly on Education
- November 10, 2017
- YouTube
S2017E09 The Death of Malls?
- November 24, 2017
- YouTube
S2017E10 The Grand Theory of Apple
- December 18, 2017
- YouTube
S2017E11 What Makes Black Mirror So Good?
- December 29, 2017
- YouTube

Season 2018

S2018E01 The Biology of Business
- January 12, 2018
- YouTube
S2018E02 How To Do Politics
- February 2, 2018
- YouTube
S2018E03 Apple's Money Problem (& Why It Won't Buy Netflix)
- February 23, 2018
- YouTube
S2018E04 How Cruise Ships Work
- April 6, 2018
- YouTube
S2018E05 Not Everyone Should Code
- April 20, 2018
- YouTube
S2018E06 Kim Jong-Un's New Strategy: Explained
- May 2, 2018
- YouTube
S2018E07 Apple is (kind of) a Game Company
- May 4, 2018
- YouTube
S2018E08 Why Bing Isn't a Failure (& the Future of the Internet)
- May 18, 2018
- YouTube
S2018E09 How to Make a Blockbuster Movie
- June 1, 2018
- YouTube
S2018E10 Subscription Affliction - Everything is $10/month
- June 8, 2018
- YouTube
S2018E11 The Grand Theory of Amazon
- June 22, 2018
- YouTube
S2018E12 The Economics of Uber
- July 13, 2018
- YouTube
S2018E13 Apple Glasses Are Coming - Here's Why
- July 27, 2018
- YouTube
S2018E14 The Challenge of Creative Work
- August 10, 2018
- YouTube
S2018E15 Self-Driving Cars Won’t Save Cities - Here’s What Will
- August 24, 2018
- YouTube
S2018E16 Dubai's Plan to Outlive Oil
- September 7, 2018
- YouTube
S2018E17 Why Amazon is Worth $1 Trillion
- September 21, 2018
- YouTube
S2018E18 How to Save the Online Economy
- September 28, 2018
- YouTube
S2018E19 Why China Ended its One-Child Policy
- October 5, 2018
- YouTube
S2018E20 Why Scooter Startups Are Worth Billions
- October 19, 2018
- YouTube
S2018E21 How Container Ships Work
- November 2, 2018
- YouTube
S2018E22 The Case Against Patents - Amazon’s 1-Click “Invention”
- November 23, 2018
- YouTube
S2018E23 How to Fix the Patent System
- November 30, 2018
- YouTube
S2018E24 Why 50 Million Chinese Homes are Empty
- December 14, 2018
- YouTube

Season 2019

S2019E01 Why Apple Fails in India (& Why it Matters)
- January 4, 2019
- YouTube
S2019E02 Why China Cares So Much About Space
- January 18, 2019
- YouTube
S2019E03 The Most Overvalued Startup in the World?
- February 1, 2019
- YouTube
S2019E04 How Somalia’s Pirates Make Money
- February 10, 2019
- YouTube
S2019E05 China's War on Pollution
- March 1, 2019
- YouTube
S2019E06 The True Cost of the iPhone
- March 15, 2019
- YouTube
S2019E07 Why China Doesn’t Want Your Trash Anymore
- March 29, 2019
- YouTube
S2019E08 Why Israel is a Tech Capital of the World
- April 12, 2019
- YouTube
S2019E09 Is Amazon Too Big?
- April 29, 2019
- YouTube
S2019E10 Why China is Building the World’s Biggest City
- May 10, 2019
- YouTube
S2019E11 Can You Trust Apple? Facebook? Google?
- May 24, 2019
- YouTube
S2019E12 What To Do When Your Country is Drowning
- June 7, 2019
- YouTube
S2019E13 Huawei: The Big Picture
- June 21, 2019
- YouTube
S2019E14 Why the $5 Footlong Failed: How Franchising Works
- July 5, 2019
- YouTube
S2019E15 Will Apple Ever Leave China?
- July 19, 2019
- YouTube
S2019E16 Why Facebook is Building a City
- August 2, 2019
- YouTube
S2019E17 Why In-N-Out Isn't Coming to a City Near You
- August 16, 2019
- YouTube
S2019E18 Why So Many Chinese Students Come to America
- September 6, 2019
- YouTube
S2019E19 How Hong Kong Built the World's Best Transit
- September 20, 2019
- YouTube
S2019E20 Zimbabwe’s Currency Crisis: the worthless $100 trillion bill
- October 11, 2019
- YouTube
S2019E21 Why Costco is Cheaper than Amazon
- October 25, 2019
- YouTube
S2019E22 The Economics of K-Pop
- November 8, 2019
- YouTube
S2019E23 Why India Banned 86% of its Currency
- November 29, 2019
- YouTube
S2019E24 Why Kazakhstan is Changing Alphabets
- December 13, 2019
- YouTube
S2019E25 Why a Third of China’s Pigs Are Dying
- December 27, 2019
- YouTube

Season 2020

S2020E01 How North Korea Makes Money
- January 10, 2020
- YouTube
S2020E02 How IKEA Became Sweden’s National Brand
- January 24, 2020
- YouTube
S2020E03 Clean, Green, & Unseen: How Singapore sanitized gambling
- February 7, 2020
- YouTube
S2020E04 China’s Plan to Reincarnate the Dalai Lama
- February 28, 2020
- YouTube
S2020E05 The Politics of Coronavirus
- March 20, 2020
- YouTube
S2020E06 Why Trader Joe’s is So Ridiculously Cheap
- April 10, 2020
- YouTube
S2020E07 How Singapore Solved Housing
- May 1, 2020
- YouTube
S2020E08 Where is Kim Jong-Un?
- May 22, 2020
- YouTube
S2020E09 The Hong Kong Passport Question
- June 16, 2020
- YouTube
S2020E10 The End of the SAT?
- July 3, 2020
- YouTube
S2020E11 Where Billionaires Hide From Coronavirus
- July 17, 2020
- YouTube
S2020E12 The TikTok Ban
- August 4, 2020
- YouTube
S2020E13 How Singapore Stays Neutral
- August 21, 2020
- YouTube
S2020E14 The Insane Story of Dennis Rodman in North Korea
- September 9, 2020
- YouTube
S2020E15 The TikTok "Sale"
- September 26, 2020
- YouTube
S2020E16 Why Uber Failed in China
- October 14, 2020
- YouTube
S2020E17 How McDonald's Really Makes Money
- November 1, 2020
- YouTube
S2020E18 Why Thailand's Geography Breeds Instability
- November 17, 2020
- YouTube
S2020E19 The Economics of LEGO
- December 4, 2020
- YouTube
S2020E20 The Hardest Test in China
- December 22, 2020
- YouTube

Season 2021

S2021E01 What is Tencent?
- January 8, 2021
- YouTube
S2021E02 Why Starbucks is Actually a Bank
- January 26, 2021
- YouTube
S2021E03 Why Statues are North Korea’s Biggest Export
- February 13, 2021
- YouTube
S2021E04 Demography — China's Reckoning (Part 1)
- March 2, 2021
- YouTube
S2021E05 Housing — China's Reckoning (Part 2)
- March 2, 2021
- YouTube
S2021E06 How MrBeast Opened a Burger Chain
- April 6, 2021
- YouTube
S2021E07 Water — China's Reckoning (Part 3)
- April 24, 2021
- YouTube
S2021E08 National Insecurity — China's Reckoning (Part 4)
- May 13, 2021
- YouTube
S2021E09 Why the World is Running Out of Computers
- May 28, 2021
- YouTube
S2021E10 How Singapore Solved Healthcare
- June 15, 2021
- YouTube
S2021E11 Singapore: The World's Only Successful Dictatorship?
- July 3, 2021
- YouTube
S2021E12 Why China's Digital Currency Doesn't Matter
- July 23, 2021
- YouTube
S2021E13 Why the US Doesn't Support Taiwanese Independence
- August 6, 2021
- YouTube
S2021E14 The Myth of Hong Kong Capitalism
- August 25, 2021
- YouTube
S2021E15 India's Privately Owned City
- September 11, 2021
- YouTube
S2021E16 Why Oil Doesn’t Corrupt Norway
- September 30, 2021
- YouTube
S2021E17 Japan's Pacifist Paradox (Part 1)
- October 16, 2021
- YouTube
S2021E18 Why Japan Has No Military
- November 3, 2021
- YouTube
S2021E19 Who Pays for U.S. Bases in Japan?
- November 21, 2021
- YouTube
S2021E20 How Australia Stole This Tiny Country's Oil
- December 7, 2021
- YouTube
S2021E21 The Truth About China in Africa
- December 18, 2021
- YouTube

Season 2025

S2025E01 The College Enrollment Crisis
- January 11, 2025
- YouTube
S2025E02 Why Russia and Kazakhstan Pretend to be Allies
- January 31, 2025
- YouTube
S2025E03 How China Killed Hong Kong's Economy
- February 21, 2025
- YouTube
S2025E04 Why the Average Japanese Farmer is 70 Years Old
- March 14, 2025
- YouTube
S2025E05 How China Accidentally Created a Billion Dollar Scam Industry
- April 5, 2025
- YouTube
S2025E06 Why "Learn to Code" Failed
- April 25, 2025
- YouTube
S2025E07 Why Singapore Elects the Losers of its Elections
- May 20, 2025
- YouTube
S2025E08 Why Apple Can’t Leave China (yet)
- June 7, 2025
- YouTube
S2025E09 Why China Banned Weird Architecture
- September 26, 2025
- YouTube
Why China Banned Weird Architecture

All Seasons

S2015E01 The Downvote Predicament

S2015E02 How To Make a Flag (in 60 seconds)

S2015E03 The Monty Hall Problem

S2015E04 How to Start a Country (in 60 seconds)

S2016E01 Why QWERTY?

S2016E02 The Reddit Filter

S2016E03 How Do HEX Color Codes Work? (in 60 seconds)

S2016E04 How to Make a Flag (New)

S2016E05 Skeuomorphism - Leather on your iPhone

S2016E06 Why are flags so similar?

S2016E07 Why Monopoly Doesn't Suck

S2016E08 Why YouTube Comments Suck (and Reddit comments don't)

S2017E01 Kim Jong-Un: A Brilliant Leader

S2017E02 Your Memories are False

S2017E03 How Not to Make Mobile Games

S2017E04 The App Store Race to the Bottom

S2017E05 The Problem with Foreign Aid

S2017E06 Nudging: The Future of Advertising

S2017E07 How Lies Become True On the Internet - Circular Sourcing

S2017E08 The College Board Monopoly on Education

S2017E09 The Death of Malls?

S2017E10 The Grand Theory of Apple

S2017E11 What Makes Black Mirror So Good?

S2018E01 The Biology of Business

S2018E02 How To Do Politics

S2018E03 Apple's Money Problem (& Why It Won't Buy Netflix)

S2018E04 How Cruise Ships Work

S2018E05 Not Everyone Should Code

S2018E06 Kim Jong-Un's New Strategy: Explained

S2018E07 Apple is (kind of) a Game Company

S2018E08 Why Bing Isn't a Failure (& the Future of the Internet)

S2018E09 How to Make a Blockbuster Movie

S2018E10 Subscription Affliction - Everything is $10/month

S2018E11 The Grand Theory of Amazon

S2018E12 The Economics of Uber

S2018E13 Apple Glasses Are Coming - Here's Why

S2018E14 The Challenge of Creative Work

S2018E15 Self-Driving Cars Won’t Save Cities - Here’s What Will

S2018E16 Dubai's Plan to Outlive Oil

S2018E17 Why Amazon is Worth $1 Trillion

S2018E18 How to Save the Online Economy

S2018E19 Why China Ended its One-Child Policy

S2018E20 Why Scooter Startups Are Worth Billions

S2018E21 How Container Ships Work

S2018E22 The Case Against Patents - Amazon’s 1-Click “Invention”

S2018E23 How to Fix the Patent System

S2018E24 Why 50 Million Chinese Homes are Empty

S2019E01 Why Apple Fails in India (& Why it Matters)

S2019E02 Why China Cares So Much About Space

S2019E03 The Most Overvalued Startup in the World?

S2019E04 How Somalia’s Pirates Make Money

S2019E05 China's War on Pollution

S2019E06 The True Cost of the iPhone

S2019E07 Why China Doesn’t Want Your Trash Anymore

S2019E08 Why Israel is a Tech Capital of the World

S2019E09 Is Amazon Too Big?

S2019E10 Why China is Building the World’s Biggest City

S2019E11 Can You Trust Apple? Facebook? Google?

S2019E12 What To Do When Your Country is Drowning

S2019E13 Huawei: The Big Picture

S2019E14 Why the $5 Footlong Failed: How Franchising Works

S2019E15 Will Apple Ever Leave China?

S2019E16 Why Facebook is Building a City

S2019E17 Why In-N-Out Isn't Coming to a City Near You

S2019E18 Why So Many Chinese Students Come to America

S2019E19 How Hong Kong Built the World's Best Transit

S2019E20 Zimbabwe’s Currency Crisis: the worthless $100 trillion bill

S2019E21 Why Costco is Cheaper than Amazon

S2019E22 The Economics of K-Pop

S2019E23 Why India Banned 86% of its Currency

S2019E24 Why Kazakhstan is Changing Alphabets

S2019E25 Why a Third of China’s Pigs Are Dying

S2020E01 How North Korea Makes Money

S2020E02 How IKEA Became Sweden’s National Brand

S2020E03 Clean, Green, & Unseen: How Singapore sanitized gambling

S2020E04 China’s Plan to Reincarnate the Dalai Lama

S2020E05 The Politics of Coronavirus

S2020E06 Why Trader Joe’s is So Ridiculously Cheap

S2020E07 How Singapore Solved Housing