Half as Interesting
Half as Interesting is an entertaining, fact-based, educational series covering diverse topics of general interest presented in a somewhat humorous, quirky style. Topics range from curious to weird and are rarely important to know unless you're looking for some lunch room or coffee break conversation starters.
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Season 2023
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1
E1
Why Building Ski Lifts Is Incredibly Hard
Jan 4, 2023 -
2
E2
The Massively Complicated Task of Buying Insurance for a Satellite
Jan 11, 2023 -
3
E3
Why Canada’s Teachers Run an Investment Firm in Singapore
Jan 18, 2023 -
4
E4
The Navy’s Obscure, Super-Efficient Swim Stroke
Jan 20, 2023 -
5
E5
The Weirdly Complex Science of Snow Removal
Jan 21, 2023 -
6
E6
Why the IRS Taxes Illegal Income
Jan 30, 2023 -
7
E7
The Corporate Conspiracy Behind California’s Smallest Town
Feb 2, 2023 -
8
E8
How Amish People Get Around Not Using Electricity
Feb 5, 2023 -
9
E9
Why Soda Cans are Shaped Differently in Hawaii
Feb 13, 2023 -
10
E10
Why the US Gov Reshapes the Mississippi River
Feb 16, 2023 -
11
E11
The Genius $250 Toll Road from Minnesota to Minnesota
Feb 22, 2023 -
12
E12
How Science Made You Finally Like Brussels Sprouts
Feb 24, 2023 -
13
E13
Why Every Baseball Stadium Has Different Rules
Mar 1, 2023 -
14
E14
Why It’s Impossible to Build a Crochet Machine
Mar 6, 2023 -
15
E15
Why American Lawns All Look The Same
Mar 9, 2023 -
16
E16
The NY Subway's Weirdly Successful Lost and Found System
Mar 16, 2023 -
17
E17
North Korea’s Bizarre New Propaganda Program
Mar 18, 2023 -
18
E18
How Witness Protection Manages to Keep a 100% Success Rate
Mar 23, 2023 -
19
E19
How Amazon Broke the US Patent Office
Mar 28, 2023 -
20
E20
The Continent-Sized Algae Blob That’s Coming for Florida
Mar 31, 2023 -
21
E21
How To Spot a Really Good Art Forgery
Apr 7, 2023 -
22
E22
The Court That Settles Wikipedia Editor Drama
Apr 12, 2023 -
23
E23
The Material So Classified We Forgot How to Make It
Apr 15, 2023 -
24
E24
This Diabetes Drug Causes Weight Loss (and Chaos)
Apr 24, 2023 -
25
E25
Why You Can Legally Steal From a Sinking Ship
Apr 28, 2023 -
26
E26
The Giant Propaganda Show That’s In Almost Every City
May 1, 2023 -
27
E27
How the White House Reads Every Letter it Gets
May 7, 2023 -
28
E28
How Much Happiness Can Money Buy?
May 9, 2023 -
29
E29
The Super Obvious Ways to Get Around Campaign Finance Laws
May 12, 2023 -
30
E30
Why We're Reaching the Theoretical Limit of Computer Power
May 20, 2023 -
31
E31
Why It Took 13 Years to Engineer The Taco Bell Crunchwrap
May 23, 2023 -
32
E32
The Website Where You Can Order The Bubonic Plague
May 26, 2023 -
33
E33
Dyson’s Disinformation War with Big Paper Towel
Jun 5, 2023 -
34
E34
How Planes Forecast Turbulence
Jun 8, 2023 -
35
E35
Why Tape Storage is Making a Sneaky Comeback
Jun 12, 2023 -
36
E36
How the Fake Meat Industry Saved Dippin’ Dots
Jun 16, 2023 -
37
E37
How the World’s 4 Cryogenics Companies Actually Work
Jun 22, 2023 -
38
E38
The Intense Logistics of Truffles
Jun 26, 2023 -
39
E39
Why the US and China Are Squabbling Over This One Wire
Jun 30, 2023 -
40
E40
How Argentina Accidentally Gave Germans 40% Off Everything
Jul 4, 2023 -
41
E41
We've Made 400 Videos for the Internet. Here are the Worst Ones.
Jul 12, 2023 -
42
E42
Why The US Navy Really Needs This One Forest in Indiana
Jul 15, 2023 -
43
E43
Why This Airline Only Has One Commercial Flight Per Month
Jul 18, 2023 -
44
E44
Trains’ Weirdly Massive Problem with Leaves
Jul 21, 2023 -
45
E45
How Porsche Owns Volkswagen and Volkswagen Owns Porsche
Jul 31, 2023 -
46
E46
Why the US Government Has No Idea How Many Buildings It Owns
Aug 4, 2023 -
47
E47
The Weirdly Lucrative Business of Searching for Old Jeans
Aug 8, 2023 -
48
E48
Chicago’s $10 Billion Street Parking Mistake
Aug 10, 2023 -
49
E49
Why Only 24 Pilots Are Allowed to Land at This Airport
Aug 16, 2023 -
50
E50
The Remote Town Where 13.2% of People are Millionaires
Aug 22, 2023 -
51
E51
How The Pentagon Became The World’s Most Secure Building
Aug 29, 2023 -
52
E52
The Surprisingly Complex Logistics of Product Returns
Aug 30, 2023 -
53
E53
Every Mistake We’ve Ever Made VI: Return of the Jed-lie
Aug 31, 2023 -
54
E54
The 3100-Mile Longest Official Running Race in the World
Sep 12, 2023 -
55
E55
Why It Takes 7+ Years to Shut Down a Nuclear Plant
Sep 19, 2023 -
56
E56
The Only River That Flows Into Both the Atlantic and the Pacific
Sep 21, 2023 -
57
E57
How to Fail a Kitchen Inspection
Sep 28, 2023 -
58
E58
How The President’s Official Vacation Home Works
Sep 29, 2023 -
59
E59
Why Venice’s New €8 Billion Flood Barrier Only Kinda Works
Sep 30, 2023 -
60
E60
The Design Flaw That Made Hyundais Absurdly Easy to Steal
Oct 6, 2023 -
61
E61
Australia’s Huge Mistake of Selling All Their Water
Oct 12, 2023 -
62
E62
How Submarines Survive at 36,201 Feet Below
Oct 20, 2023 -
63
E63
Why China Built an Antenna Bigger Than NYC
Oct 25, 2023 -
64
E64
Why Qatar Airways Flies An Almost-Empty Flight to Adelaide
Oct 26, 2023 -
65
E65
How 70% of Britain’s Cash Went Missing
Oct 28, 2023 -
66
E66
How This Utah Hotel Legally Became a Town
Nov 6, 2023 -
67
E67
Why The US is in 42 Different National Emergencies
Nov 15, 2023 -
68
E68
The 128 Airlines So Dangerous They’re Banned in the EU
Nov 17, 2023 -
69
E69
Why the US Gov Pays $10 Million a Year for This Yacht
Nov 21, 2023 -
70
E70
The Arctic Vault That Protects Data from the Apocalypse
Nov 27, 2023 -
71
E71
NASA’s Year-Long, Totally Fake Mission to Mars
Nov 30, 2023 -
72
E72
The Vault That Holds 5% of the World’s Gold
Dec 7, 2023 -
73
E73
The Controversial Machine That’s Ruining Bowling
Dec 12, 2023 -
74
E74
What Exactly Happens When You Check a Bag
Dec 19, 2023 -
75
E75
The Super-Secure Delivery Service That Only Diplomats Can Use
Dec 26, 2023 -
76
E76
Why China Took the US’ Pandas
Dec 28, 2023