Half as Interesting
Season 2023
202376 episodes
Episode 1
Why Building Ski Lifts Is Incredibly Hard
Jan 4, 20237m
Episode 2
The Massively Complicated Task of Buying Insurance for a Satellite
Jan 11, 20236m
Episode 3
Why Canada’s Teachers Run an Investment Firm in Singapore
Jan 18, 2023
Episode 4
The Navy’s Obscure, Super-Efficient Swim Stroke
Jan 20, 20236m
Episode 5
The Weirdly Complex Science of Snow Removal
Jan 21, 20236m
Episode 6
Why the IRS Taxes Illegal Income
Jan 30, 20235m
Episode 7
The Corporate Conspiracy Behind California’s Smallest Town
Feb 2, 20236m
Episode 8
How Amish People Get Around Not Using Electricity
Feb 5, 20236m
Episode 9
Why Soda Cans are Shaped Differently in Hawaii
Feb 13, 20235m
Episode 10
Why the US Gov Reshapes the Mississippi River
Feb 16, 20236m
Episode 11
The Genius $250 Toll Road from Minnesota to Minnesota
Feb 22, 20235m
Episode 12
How Science Made You Finally Like Brussels Sprouts
Feb 24, 20236m
Episode 13
Why Every Baseball Stadium Has Different Rules
Mar 1, 20236m
Episode 14
Why It’s Impossible to Build a Crochet Machine
Mar 6, 20236m
Episode 15
Why American Lawns All Look The Same
Mar 9, 20236m
Episode 16
The NY Subway's Weirdly Successful Lost and Found System
Mar 16, 20236m
Episode 17
North Korea’s Bizarre New Propaganda Program
Mar 18, 20237m
Episode 18
How Witness Protection Manages to Keep a 100% Success Rate
Mar 23, 20236m
Episode 19
How Amazon Broke the US Patent Office
Mar 28, 20237m
Episode 20
The Continent-Sized Algae Blob That’s Coming for Florida
Mar 31, 20236m
Episode 21
How To Spot a Really Good Art Forgery
Apr 7, 20237m
Episode 22
The Court That Settles Wikipedia Editor Drama
Apr 12, 20237m
Episode 23
The Material So Classified We Forgot How to Make It
Apr 15, 20236m
Episode 24
This Diabetes Drug Causes Weight Loss (and Chaos)
Apr 24, 20236m
Episode 25
Why You Can Legally Steal From a Sinking Ship
Apr 28, 20237m
Episode 26
The Giant Propaganda Show That’s In Almost Every City
May 1, 20237m
Episode 27
How the White House Reads Every Letter it Gets
May 7, 20236m
Episode 28
How Much Happiness Can Money Buy?
May 9, 20237m
Episode 29
The Super Obvious Ways to Get Around Campaign Finance Laws
May 12, 20236m
Episode 30
Why We're Reaching the Theoretical Limit of Computer Power
May 20, 20237m
Episode 31
Why It Took 13 Years to Engineer The Taco Bell Crunchwrap
May 23, 20236m
Episode 32
The Website Where You Can Order The Bubonic Plague
May 26, 20237m
Episode 33
Dyson’s Disinformation War with Big Paper Towel
Jun 5, 20237m
Episode 34
How Planes Forecast Turbulence
Jun 8, 20236m
Episode 35
Why Tape Storage is Making a Sneaky Comeback
Jun 12, 20236m
Episode 36
How the Fake Meat Industry Saved Dippin’ Dots
Jun 16, 20236m
Episode 37
How the World’s 4 Cryogenics Companies Actually Work
Jun 22, 20236m
Episode 38
The Intense Logistics of Truffles
Jun 26, 20236m
Episode 39
Why the US and China Are Squabbling Over This One Wire
Jun 30, 20237m
Episode 40
How Argentina Accidentally Gave Germans 40% Off Everything
Jul 4, 20237m
Episode 41
We've Made 400 Videos for the Internet. Here are the Worst Ones.
Jul 12, 20236m
Episode 42
Why The US Navy Really Needs This One Forest in Indiana
Jul 15, 20237m
Episode 43
Why This Airline Only Has One Commercial Flight Per Month
Jul 18, 20236m
Episode 44
Trains’ Weirdly Massive Problem with Leaves
Jul 21, 20236m
Episode 45
How Porsche Owns Volkswagen and Volkswagen Owns Porsche
Jul 31, 20236m
Episode 46
Why the US Government Has No Idea How Many Buildings It Owns
Aug 4, 20236m
Episode 47
The Weirdly Lucrative Business of Searching for Old Jeans
Aug 8, 20237m
Episode 48
Chicago’s $10 Billion Street Parking Mistake
Aug 10, 20236m
Episode 49
Why Only 24 Pilots Are Allowed to Land at This Airport
Aug 16, 20236m
Episode 50
The Remote Town Where 13.2% of People are Millionaires
Aug 22, 20236m
Episode 51
How The Pentagon Became The World’s Most Secure Building
Aug 29, 20236m
Episode 52
The Surprisingly Complex Logistics of Product Returns
Aug 30, 2023
Episode 53
Every Mistake We’ve Ever Made VI: Return of the Jed-lie
Aug 31, 20236m
Episode 54
The 3100-Mile Longest Official Running Race in the World
Sep 12, 20237m
Episode 55
Why It Takes 7+ Years to Shut Down a Nuclear Plant
Sep 19, 20237m
Episode 56
The Only River That Flows Into Both the Atlantic and the Pacific
Sep 21, 20236m
Episode 57
How to Fail a Kitchen Inspection
Sep 28, 20237m
Episode 58
How The President’s Official Vacation Home Works
Sep 29, 20238m
Episode 59
Why Venice’s New €8 Billion Flood Barrier Only Kinda Works
Sep 30, 20237m
Episode 60
The Design Flaw That Made Hyundais Absurdly Easy to Steal
Oct 6, 2023
Episode 61
Australia’s Huge Mistake of Selling All Their Water
Oct 12, 20237m
Episode 62
How Submarines Survive at 36,201 Feet Below
Oct 20, 20237m
Episode 63
Why China Built an Antenna Bigger Than NYC
Oct 25, 2023
Episode 64
Why Qatar Airways Flies An Almost-Empty Flight to Adelaide
Oct 26, 2023
Episode 65
How 70% of Britain’s Cash Went Missing
Oct 28, 2023
Episode 66
How This Utah Hotel Legally Became a Town
Nov 6, 20237m
Episode 67
Why The US is in 42 Different National Emergencies
Nov 15, 20237m
Episode 68
The 128 Airlines So Dangerous They’re Banned in the EU
Nov 17, 20237m
Episode 69
Why the US Gov Pays $10 Million a Year for This Yacht
Nov 21, 2023
Episode 70
The Arctic Vault That Protects Data from the Apocalypse
Nov 27, 2023
Episode 71
NASA’s Year-Long, Totally Fake Mission to Mars
Nov 30, 2023
Episode 72
The Vault That Holds 5% of the World’s Gold
Dec 7, 2023
Episode 73
The Controversial Machine That’s Ruining Bowling
Dec 12, 20238m
Episode 74
What Exactly Happens When You Check a Bag
Dec 19, 2023
Episode 75
The Super-Secure Delivery Service That Only Diplomats Can Use
Dec 26, 2023
Episode 76
Why China Took the US’ Pandas
Dec 28, 20238m