Half as Interesting - Season 2024

Half as Interesting (0000 — present)
Seasons: 10, episodes: 573
Episode runtime: 5 min
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1 South Korea Built a Mediocre New Capital in the Middle of Nowhere 2024-01-04 6 min.
2 Why There’s a Giant Barcode In The Middle of the Mojave Desert 2024-01-11 6 min.
3 The Special Design That Makes Library Books Indestructible 2024-01-16 7 min.
4 How the US Transports Its Nuclear Weapons 2024-01-19 7 min.
5 How Tokyo Made Itself Earthquake-Proof 2024-01-25 7 min.
6 Why a Big Box Store Started Solving Violent Crimes 2024-01-26 7 min.
7 The Very Real Australian Colleges with No Students 2024-01-31 7 min.
8 The Logistics of White House State Dinners 2024-01-31 7 min.
9 The Tiny Alaskan Town with the US’ Highest Taxicab Density 2024-02-05 7 min.
10 How This Michigan Town Accidentally Buried Itself in Sand 2024-02-19 7 min.
11 Why the FBI and the CIA Keep Lying to Each Other 2024-02-25 6 min.
12 Why It’s So Difficult to Build Subways in Rome 2024-02-28 7 min.
13 Why We’re Building a 790-Mile Wire From Kansas to Indiana 2024-02-29 6 min.
14 Why the North Korean Government Has a Tiny Office in NYC 2024-03-19 8 min.
15 Why So Many Trains Get Robbed in this One Spot 2024-03-22 9 min.
16 The Logistics of Prescribed Fires
Video written by Ben Doyle
2024-03-27 9 min.
17 Why Don’t Planes Carry Parachutes? 2024-03-31 8 min.
18 How the US Tests Nukes (Without Blowing Them Up) 2024-04-06 8 min.
19 The Man Who Stole an Entire Hotel 2024-04-16 8 min.
20 The Obscure System That Syncs All The World’s Clocks 2024-04-23 8 min.
21 How Storing Movies on Vinyl Lost RCA $650 Million 2024-05-01 9 min.
22 Why All Pro Basketball Players Shoot Free Throws Wrong 2024-05-09 9 min.
23 The One Company That Owns 2,390 Colors 2024-05-14 10 min.
24 The 517,431 Emails That Trained Siri 2024-05-17 8 min.
25 Why There’s a Pacific Ocean Port in Idaho 2024-05-24 9 min.
26 Why the Ocean Looks So Fake on Google Maps 2024-06-03 9 min.
27 Why the US Drops 14.7 Million Worms On Panama Every Week 2024-06-06 8 min.
28 Why Nobody Knows What 彁 Means 2024-06-13 9 min.
29 The Weird, Terrible Smartphones They Only Have in North Korea 2024-06-25 8 min.
30 Mumbai’s Crazy-Efficient, 99.9999% Accurate Food Delivery System 2024-07-01 8 min.
31 How the UN Translates Everything in Real-Time 2024-07-08 9 min.
32 How this Oklahoma Town Became Completely Uninhabitable 2024-07-15 9 min.
33 How America’s Largest, Most Secure Embassy Works 2024-07-19 9 min.
34 How the US Gov’s Riskiest Labs Contain Deadly Viruses 2024-07-30 8 min.
35 The One Long Wire Ruining America’s Most Important Train 2024-08-01 8 min.
36 The Super-Complex Security of the Paris Olympics 2024-08-09 9 min.
37 The Logistics of Mount Everest’s Base Camp 2024-08-20 8 min.
38 The $190 Million Tunnel Built for Just 1200 People 2024-08-26 8 min.
39 The Worst Mistakes We Made This Year 2024-09-03 8 min.
40 The Massively Bureaucratic System for Confirming a “Miracle” 2024-09-07 9 min.
41 The Board That Decides Every Place Name in the U.S. 2024-09-18 8 min.
42 Why 1% of the Stock Market is Tied to 11 Random Americans 2024-09-26 7 min.
43 How Ski Resorts Store Snow Over the Summer 2024-09-30 8 min.
44 Why Only One US City Doesn’t Add Fluoride to Its Water 2024-10-10 9 min.
45 How They Dug the Deepest Hole on Earth 2024-10-17 8 min.
46 How This Card Game Accidentally Became a Stock Market 2024-10-25 9 min.
47 How This Single 'M' Almost Ruined a US Presidency 2024-10-30 9 min.
48 How The USA’s Only Car-Free Village Works 2024-10-31 9 min.
49 Why Hawaii's H-3 is the Most Expensive Interstate Ever 2024-11-12 9 min.
50 The Crazy-Complex Process of Organizing a Container Ship 2024-11-19 9 min.
51 How This Waffle Restaurant Mastered Hurricanes 2024-11-26 8 min.
52 How Istanbul Moved Its Airport in Just 45 Hours 2024-11-30 8 min.
53 The US’ Surprisingly Busy Nuclear Emergency Team 2024-12-12 9 min.
54 How a Whole Country Got Cut Off From The Internet for 38 Days 2024-12-17 9 min.
55 How This Tunnel Accidentally Created an Immigration Loophole 2024-12-24 7 min.
56 The $18.8 Bil, Borderline Useless Bridge Between Hong Kong and Macau 2024-12-26 8 min.

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