Half as Interesting - Season 2023

First aired: 1/4/2023 76 episodes
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Episodes

1. Why Building Ski Lifts Is Incredibly Hard

Aired: 1/4/2023

2. The Massively Complicated Task of Buying Insurance for a Satellite

Aired: 1/11/2023

3. Why Canada’s Teachers Run an Investment Firm in Singapore

Aired: 1/18/2023

4. The Navy’s Obscure, Super-Efficient Swim Stroke

Aired: 1/20/2023

5. The Weirdly Complex Science of Snow Removal

Aired: 1/21/2023

6. Why the IRS Taxes Illegal Income

Aired: 1/30/2023

7. The Corporate Conspiracy Behind California’s Smallest Town

Aired: 2/2/2023

8. How Amish People Get Around Not Using Electricity

Aired: 2/5/2023

9. Why Soda Cans are Shaped Differently in Hawaii

Aired: 2/13/2023

10. Why the US Gov Reshapes the Mississippi River

Aired: 2/16/2023

11. The Genius $250 Toll Road from Minnesota to Minnesota

Aired: 2/22/2023

12. How Science Made You Finally Like Brussels Sprouts

Aired: 2/24/2023

13. Why Every Baseball Stadium Has Different Rules

Aired: 3/1/2023

14. Why It’s Impossible to Build a Crochet Machine

Aired: 3/6/2023

15. Why American Lawns All Look The Same

Aired: 3/9/2023

16. The NY Subway's Weirdly Successful Lost and Found System

Aired: 3/16/2023

17. North Korea’s Bizarre New Propaganda Program

Aired: 3/18/2023

18. How Witness Protection Manages to Keep a 100% Success Rate

Aired: 3/23/2023

19. How Amazon Broke the US Patent Office

Aired: 3/28/2023

20. The Continent-Sized Algae Blob That’s Coming for Florida

Aired: 3/31/2023

21. How To Spot a Really Good Art Forgery

Aired: 4/7/2023

22. The Court That Settles Wikipedia Editor Drama

Aired: 4/12/2023

23. The Material So Classified We Forgot How to Make It

Aired: 4/15/2023

24. This Diabetes Drug Causes Weight Loss (and Chaos)

Aired: 4/24/2023

25. Why You Can Legally Steal From a Sinking Ship

Aired: 4/28/2023

26. The Giant Propaganda Show That’s In Almost Every City

Aired: 5/1/2023

27. How the White House Reads Every Letter it Gets

Aired: 5/7/2023

28. How Much Happiness Can Money Buy?

Aired: 5/9/2023

29. The Super Obvious Ways to Get Around Campaign Finance Laws

Aired: 5/12/2023

30. Why We're Reaching the Theoretical Limit of Computer Power

Aired: 5/20/2023

31. Why It Took 13 Years to Engineer The Taco Bell Crunchwrap

Aired: 5/23/2023

32. The Website Where You Can Order The Bubonic Plague

Aired: 5/26/2023

33. Dyson’s Disinformation War with Big Paper Towel

Aired: 6/5/2023

34. How Planes Forecast Turbulence

Aired: 6/8/2023

35. Why Tape Storage is Making a Sneaky Comeback

Aired: 6/12/2023

36. How the Fake Meat Industry Saved Dippin’ Dots

Aired: 6/16/2023

37. How the World’s 4 Cryogenics Companies Actually Work

Aired: 6/22/2023

38. The Intense Logistics of Truffles

Aired: 6/26/2023

39. Why the US and China Are Squabbling Over This One Wire

Aired: 6/30/2023

40. How Argentina Accidentally Gave Germans 40% Off Everything

Aired: 7/4/2023

41. We've Made 400 Videos for the Internet. Here are the Worst Ones.

Aired: 7/12/2023

42. Why The US Navy Really Needs This One Forest in Indiana

Aired: 7/15/2023

43. Why This Airline Only Has One Commercial Flight Per Month

Aired: 7/18/2023

44. Trains’ Weirdly Massive Problem with Leaves

Aired: 7/21/2023

45. How Porsche Owns Volkswagen and Volkswagen Owns Porsche

Aired: 7/31/2023

46. Why the US Government Has No Idea How Many Buildings It Owns

Aired: 8/4/2023

47. The Weirdly Lucrative Business of Searching for Old Jeans

Aired: 8/8/2023

48. Chicago’s $10 Billion Street Parking Mistake

Aired: 8/10/2023

49. Why Only 24 Pilots Are Allowed to Land at This Airport

Aired: 8/16/2023

50. The Remote Town Where 13.2% of People are Millionaires

Aired: 8/22/2023

51. How The Pentagon Became The World’s Most Secure Building

Aired: 8/29/2023

52. The Surprisingly Complex Logistics of Product Returns

Aired: 8/30/2023

53. Every Mistake We’ve Ever Made VI: Return of the Jed-lie

Aired: 8/31/2023

54. The 3100-Mile Longest Official Running Race in the World

Aired: 9/12/2023

55. Why It Takes 7+ Years to Shut Down a Nuclear Plant

Aired: 9/19/2023

56. The Only River That Flows Into Both the Atlantic and the Pacific

Aired: 9/21/2023

57. How to Fail a Kitchen Inspection

Aired: 9/28/2023

58. How The President’s Official Vacation Home Works

Aired: 9/29/2023

59. Why Venice’s New €8 Billion Flood Barrier Only Kinda Works

Aired: 9/30/2023

60. The Design Flaw That Made Hyundais Absurdly Easy to Steal

Aired: 10/6/2023

61. Australia’s Huge Mistake of Selling All Their Water

Aired: 10/12/2023

62. How Submarines Survive at 36,201 Feet Below

Aired: 10/20/2023

63. Why China Built an Antenna Bigger Than NYC

Aired: 10/25/2023

64. Why Qatar Airways Flies An Almost-Empty Flight to Adelaide

Aired: 10/26/2023

65. How 70% of Britain’s Cash Went Missing

Aired: 10/28/2023

66. How This Utah Hotel Legally Became a Town

Aired: 11/6/2023

67. Why The US is in 42 Different National Emergencies

Aired: 11/15/2023

68. The 128 Airlines So Dangerous They’re Banned in the EU

Aired: 11/17/2023

69. Why the US Gov Pays $10 Million a Year for This Yacht

Aired: 11/21/2023

70. The Arctic Vault That Protects Data from the Apocalypse

Aired: 11/27/2023

71. NASA’s Year-Long, Totally Fake Mission to Mars

Aired: 11/30/2023

72. The Vault That Holds 5% of the World’s Gold

Aired: 12/7/2023

73. The Controversial Machine That’s Ruining Bowling

Aired: 12/12/2023

74. What Exactly Happens When You Check a Bag

Aired: 12/19/2023

75. The Super-Secure Delivery Service That Only Diplomats Can Use

Aired: 12/26/2023

76. Why China Took the US’ Pandas

Aired: 12/28/2023