Half as Interesting
Season 2024
202456 episodes
Episode 1
South Korea Built a Mediocre New Capital in the Middle of Nowhere
Jan 4, 20246m
Episode 2
Why There’s a Giant Barcode In The Middle of the Mojave Desert
Jan 11, 20246m
Episode 3
The Special Design That Makes Library Books Indestructible
Jan 16, 20247m
Episode 4
How the US Transports Its Nuclear Weapons
Jan 19, 20247m
Episode 5
How Tokyo Made Itself Earthquake-Proof
Jan 25, 20247m
Episode 6
Why a Big Box Store Started Solving Violent Crimes
Jan 26, 20247m
Episode 7
The Very Real Australian Colleges with No Students
Jan 31, 20247m
Episode 8
The Logistics of White House State Dinners
Jan 31, 20247m
Episode 9
The Tiny Alaskan Town with the US’ Highest Taxicab Density
Feb 5, 20247m
Episode 10
How This Michigan Town Accidentally Buried Itself in Sand
Feb 19, 20247m
Episode 11
Why the FBI and the CIA Keep Lying to Each Other
Feb 25, 20246m
Episode 12
Why It’s So Difficult to Build Subways in Rome
Feb 28, 20247m
Episode 13
Why We’re Building a 790-Mile Wire From Kansas to Indiana
Feb 29, 20246m
Episode 14
Why the North Korean Government Has a Tiny Office in NYC
Mar 19, 20248m
Episode 15
Why So Many Trains Get Robbed in this One Spot
Mar 22, 20249m
Episode 16
The Logistics of Prescribed Fires
Mar 27, 20249m
Video written by Ben Doyle
Episode 17
Why Don’t Planes Carry Parachutes?
Mar 31, 20248m
Episode 18
How the US Tests Nukes (Without Blowing Them Up)
Apr 6, 20248m
Episode 19
The Man Who Stole an Entire Hotel
Apr 16, 20248m
Episode 20
The Obscure System That Syncs All The World’s Clocks
Apr 23, 20248m
Episode 21
How Storing Movies on Vinyl Lost RCA $650 Million
May 1, 20249m
Episode 22
Why All Pro Basketball Players Shoot Free Throws Wrong
May 9, 20249m
Episode 23
The One Company That Owns 2,390 Colors
May 14, 202410m
Episode 24
The 517,431 Emails That Trained Siri
May 17, 20248m
Episode 25
Why There’s a Pacific Ocean Port in Idaho
May 24, 20249m
Episode 26
Why the Ocean Looks So Fake on Google Maps
Jun 3, 20249m
Episode 27
Why the US Drops 14.7 Million Worms On Panama Every Week
Jun 6, 20248m
Episode 28
Why Nobody Knows What 彁 Means
Jun 13, 20249m
Episode 29
The Weird, Terrible Smartphones They Only Have in North Korea
Jun 25, 20248m
Episode 30
Mumbai’s Crazy-Efficient, 99.9999% Accurate Food Delivery System
Jul 1, 20248m
Episode 31
How the UN Translates Everything in Real-Time
Jul 8, 20249m
Episode 32
How this Oklahoma Town Became Completely Uninhabitable
Jul 15, 20249m
Episode 33
How America’s Largest, Most Secure Embassy Works
Jul 19, 20249m
Episode 34
How the US Gov’s Riskiest Labs Contain Deadly Viruses
Jul 30, 20248m
Episode 35
The One Long Wire Ruining America’s Most Important Train
Aug 1, 20248m
Episode 36
The Super-Complex Security of the Paris Olympics
Aug 9, 20249m
Episode 37
The Logistics of Mount Everest’s Base Camp
Aug 20, 20248m
Episode 38
The $190 Million Tunnel Built for Just 1200 People
Aug 26, 20248m
Episode 39
The Worst Mistakes We Made This Year
Sep 3, 20248m
Episode 40
The Massively Bureaucratic System for Confirming a “Miracle”
Sep 7, 20249m
Episode 41
The Board That Decides Every Place Name in the U.S.
Sep 18, 20248m
Episode 42
Why 1% of the Stock Market is Tied to 11 Random Americans
Sep 26, 20247m
Episode 43
How Ski Resorts Store Snow Over the Summer
Sep 30, 20248m
Episode 44
Why Only One US City Doesn’t Add Fluoride to Its Water
Oct 10, 20249m
Episode 45
How They Dug the Deepest Hole on Earth
Oct 17, 20248m
Episode 46
How This Card Game Accidentally Became a Stock Market
Oct 25, 20249m
Episode 47
How This Single 'M' Almost Ruined a US Presidency
Oct 30, 20249m
Episode 48
How The USA’s Only Car-Free Village Works
Oct 31, 20249m
Episode 49
Why Hawaii's H-3 is the Most Expensive Interstate Ever
Nov 12, 20249m
Episode 50
The Crazy-Complex Process of Organizing a Container Ship
Nov 19, 20249m
Episode 51
How This Waffle Restaurant Mastered Hurricanes
Nov 26, 20248m
Episode 52
How Istanbul Moved Its Airport in Just 45 Hours
Nov 30, 20248m
Episode 53
The US’ Surprisingly Busy Nuclear Emergency Team
Dec 12, 20249m
Episode 54
How a Whole Country Got Cut Off From The Internet for 38 Days
Dec 17, 20249m
Episode 55
How This Tunnel Accidentally Created an Immigration Loophole
Dec 24, 20247m
Episode 56
The $18.8 Bil, Borderline Useless Bridge Between Hong Kong and Macau
Dec 26, 20248m