In this episode, we explore the hidden logic of american interstates. Imagine you're just you know cruising down the highway at like 70 miles per hour, right? Just totally on autopilot. Exactly. You've got your hands on the wheel, maybe your favorite music is playing, and you're just thinking about getting to work or, I don't know, heading out on a weekend road trip. Yeah, you're definitely not thinking about the road itself. No, not at all. But what you probably aren't thinking about is that you are actually gliding across the surface of this massive, invisible mathematical logic puzzle. It really is. Like a puzzle that dictates almost everything about the pavement beneath your wheels. Well, because we tend to view highways just as a convenience. They just feel like a permanent background feature of the American landscape. Like a river or a mountai ...