Half as Interesting
Season 2026
202626 episodes
Episode 1
How Iran Smuggles 777 Airplanes
Jan 14, 20265m
Episode 2
This Is The Worst Cell Phone of All Time
Jan 21, 20268m
Episode 3
The Messy Science of Escalator Etiquette
Jan 28, 20268m
Episode 4
The Debate Over the Best Parking Garage Design
Jan 30, 20267m
Episode 5
The Weirdly Specific Science Behind Ship Camouflage
Jan 31, 20267m
Ship camouflage
Episode 6
Why The US Government Put 480 Million Needles Into the Sky
Feb 10, 20268m
Episode 7
The Debacle Behind The 2026 Olympic Hockey Rink
Feb 25, 20268m
Episode 8
The Terrible Design of the US Mail Truck
Feb 27, 20268m
Episode 9
The Highway Loophole That Created The Worst Town in America
Mar 2, 20267m
Episode 10
Nobody Knows How Tylenol Works
Mar 17, 20268m
Episode 11
The Crazy-Fast Logistics of Flower Distribution
Mar 24, 20265m
Episode 12
The International Airport That Can Only Send Flights to Turkey
Mar 27, 20267m
Episode 13
Why Amtrak’s Most Important Tunnels Are Doomed
Apr 8, 20267m
Episode 14
The Ancient, Strange Coding Language that 95% of ATMs Use
Apr 10, 20268m
Episode 15
The Logistics of 911
Apr 11, 20267m
Episode 16
Why This River Doesn’t Reach the Ocean
Apr 22, 20268m
Episode 17
How the Nuclear Football Works
Apr 29, 20267m
Episode 18
How Forensic Linguistics Works
Apr 30, 20267m
Episode 19
The Seven Landlocked Countries That Have Navies
May 12, 20268m
Episode 20
Why They Built The World’s Longest Rail Tunnel
May 28, 20269m
Episode 21
Russia’s Weird, Bad Alternative Internet
May 29, 20268m
Episode 22
What’s The World’s Longest Domestic Flight?
Jun 1, 20267m
Episode 23
New Jersey’s Big Fight with FIFA
Jun 22, 20269m
Episode 24
Why This NYC Skyscraper Has Been Half-Finished Since 2018
Jun 25, 20266m
Episode 25
Why This Giant Bag of CO2 is Actually Useful
Jun 26, 20269m
Episode 26
The Tests to Determine If AI Is Smarter Than a Person
Jul 14, 20267m