Half as Interesting - Season 2024

1. South Korea Built a Mediocre New Capital in the Middle of Nowhere

Aired: 1/4/2024

2. Why There’s a Giant Barcode In The Middle of the Mojave Desert

Aired: 1/11/2024

3. The Special Design That Makes Library Books Indestructible

Aired: 1/16/2024

4. How the US Transports Its Nuclear Weapons

Aired: 1/19/2024

5. How Tokyo Made Itself Earthquake-Proof

Aired: 1/25/2024

6. Why a Big Box Store Started Solving Violent Crimes

Aired: 1/26/2024

7. The Very Real Australian Colleges with No Students

Aired: 1/31/2024

8. The Logistics of White House State Dinners

Aired: 1/31/2024

9. The Tiny Alaskan Town with the US’ Highest Taxicab Density

Aired: 2/5/2024

10. How This Michigan Town Accidentally Buried Itself in Sand

Aired: 2/19/2024

11. Why the FBI and the CIA Keep Lying to Each Other

Aired: 2/25/2024

12. Why It’s So Difficult to Build Subways in Rome

Aired: 2/28/2024

13. Why We’re Building a 790-Mile Wire From Kansas to Indiana

Aired: 2/29/2024

14. Why the North Korean Government Has a Tiny Office in NYC

Aired: 3/19/2024

15. Why So Many Trains Get Robbed in this One Spot

Aired: 3/22/2024

16. The Logistics of Prescribed Fires

Aired: 3/27/2024

Video written by Ben Doyle

17. Why Don’t Planes Carry Parachutes?

Aired: 3/31/2024

18. How the US Tests Nukes (Without Blowing Them Up)

Aired: 4/6/2024

19. The Man Who Stole an Entire Hotel

Aired: 4/16/2024

20. The Obscure System That Syncs All The World’s Clocks

Aired: 4/23/2024

21. How Storing Movies on Vinyl Lost RCA $650 Million

Aired: 5/1/2024

22. Why All Pro Basketball Players Shoot Free Throws Wrong

Aired: 5/9/2024

23. The One Company That Owns 2,390 Colors

Aired: 5/14/2024

24. The 517,431 Emails That Trained Siri

Aired: 5/17/2024

25. Why There’s a Pacific Ocean Port in Idaho

Aired: 5/24/2024

26. Why the Ocean Looks So Fake on Google Maps

Aired: 6/3/2024

27. Why the US Drops 14.7 Million Worms On Panama Every Week

Aired: 6/6/2024

28. Why Nobody Knows What 彁 Means

Aired: 6/13/2024

29. The Weird, Terrible Smartphones They Only Have in North Korea

Aired: 6/25/2024

30. Mumbai’s Crazy-Efficient, 99.9999% Accurate Food Delivery System

Aired: 7/1/2024

31. How the UN Translates Everything in Real-Time

Aired: 7/8/2024

32. How this Oklahoma Town Became Completely Uninhabitable

Aired: 7/15/2024

33. How America’s Largest, Most Secure Embassy Works

Aired: 7/19/2024

34. How the US Gov’s Riskiest Labs Contain Deadly Viruses

Aired: 7/30/2024

35. The One Long Wire Ruining America’s Most Important Train

Aired: 8/1/2024

36. The Super-Complex Security of the Paris Olympics

Aired: 8/9/2024

37. The Logistics of Mount Everest’s Base Camp

Aired: 8/20/2024

38. The $190 Million Tunnel Built for Just 1200 People

Aired: 8/26/2024

39. The Worst Mistakes We Made This Year

Aired: 9/3/2024

40. The Massively Bureaucratic System for Confirming a “Miracle”

Aired: 9/7/2024

41. The Board That Decides Every Place Name in the U.S.

Aired: 9/18/2024

42. Why 1% of the Stock Market is Tied to 11 Random Americans

Aired: 9/26/2024

43. How Ski Resorts Store Snow Over the Summer

Aired: 9/30/2024

44. Why Only One US City Doesn’t Add Fluoride to Its Water

Aired: 10/10/2024

45. How They Dug the Deepest Hole on Earth

Aired: 10/17/2024

46. How This Card Game Accidentally Became a Stock Market

Aired: 10/25/2024

47. How This Single 'M' Almost Ruined a US Presidency

Aired: 10/30/2024

48. How The USA’s Only Car-Free Village Works

Aired: 10/31/2024

49. Why Hawaii's H-3 is the Most Expensive Interstate Ever

Aired: 11/12/2024

50. The Crazy-Complex Process of Organizing a Container Ship

Aired: 11/19/2024

51. How This Waffle Restaurant Mastered Hurricanes

Aired: 11/26/2024

52. How Istanbul Moved Its Airport in Just 45 Hours

Aired: 11/30/2024

53. The US’ Surprisingly Busy Nuclear Emergency Team

Aired: 12/12/2024

54. How a Whole Country Got Cut Off From The Internet for 38 Days

Aired: 12/17/2024

55. How This Tunnel Accidentally Created an Immigration Loophole

Aired: 12/24/2024

56. The $18.8 Bil, Borderline Useless Bridge Between Hong Kong and Macau

Aired: 12/26/2024