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 2024
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E1
South Korea Built a Mediocre New Capital in the Middle of Nowhere
Jan 4, 2024 -
2
E2
Why There’s a Giant Barcode In The Middle of the Mojave Desert
Jan 11, 2024 -
3
E3
The Special Design That Makes Library Books Indestructible
Jan 16, 2024 -
4
E4
How the US Transports Its Nuclear Weapons
Jan 19, 2024 -
5
E5
How Tokyo Made Itself Earthquake-Proof
Jan 25, 2024 -
6
E6
Why a Big Box Store Started Solving Violent Crimes
Jan 26, 2024 -
7
E7
The Very Real Australian Colleges with No Students
Jan 31, 2024 -
8
E8
The Logistics of White House State Dinners
Jan 31, 2024 -
9
E9
The Tiny Alaskan Town with the US’ Highest Taxicab Density
Feb 5, 2024 -
10
E10
How This Michigan Town Accidentally Buried Itself in Sand
Feb 19, 2024 -
11
E11
Why the FBI and the CIA Keep Lying to Each Other
Feb 25, 2024 -
12
E12
Why It’s So Difficult to Build Subways in Rome
Feb 28, 2024 -
13
E13
Why We’re Building a 790-Mile Wire From Kansas to Indiana
Feb 29, 2024 -
14
E14
Why the North Korean Government Has a Tiny Office in NYC
Mar 19, 2024 -
15
E15
Why So Many Trains Get Robbed in this One Spot
Mar 22, 2024 -
16
E16
The Logistics of Prescribed Fires
Video written by Ben Doyle
Mar 27, 2024 -
17
E17
Why Don’t Planes Carry Parachutes?
Mar 31, 2024 -
18
E18
How the US Tests Nukes (Without Blowing Them Up)
Apr 6, 2024 -
19
E19
The Man Who Stole an Entire Hotel
Apr 16, 2024 -
20
E20
The Obscure System That Syncs All The World’s Clocks
Apr 23, 2024 -
21
E21
How Storing Movies on Vinyl Lost RCA $650 Million
May 1, 2024 -
22
E22
Why All Pro Basketball Players Shoot Free Throws Wrong
May 9, 2024 -
23
E23
The One Company That Owns 2,390 Colors
May 14, 2024 -
24
E24
The 517,431 Emails That Trained Siri
May 17, 2024 -
25
E25
Why There’s a Pacific Ocean Port in Idaho
May 24, 2024 -
26
E26
Why the Ocean Looks So Fake on Google Maps
Jun 3, 2024 -
27
E27
Why the US Drops 14.7 Million Worms On Panama Every Week
Jun 6, 2024 -
28
E28
Why Nobody Knows What 彁 Means
Jun 13, 2024 -
29
E29
The Weird, Terrible Smartphones They Only Have in North Korea
Jun 25, 2024 -
30
E30
Mumbai’s Crazy-Efficient, 99.9999% Accurate Food Delivery System
Jul 1, 2024 -
31
E31
How the UN Translates Everything in Real-Time
Jul 8, 2024 -
32
E32
How this Oklahoma Town Became Completely Uninhabitable
Jul 15, 2024 -
33
E33
How America’s Largest, Most Secure Embassy Works
Jul 19, 2024 -
34
E34
How the US Gov’s Riskiest Labs Contain Deadly Viruses
Jul 30, 2024 -
35
E35
The One Long Wire Ruining America’s Most Important Train
Aug 1, 2024 -
36
E36
The Super-Complex Security of the Paris Olympics
Aug 9, 2024 -
37
E37
The Logistics of Mount Everest’s Base Camp
Aug 20, 2024 -
38
E38
The $190 Million Tunnel Built for Just 1200 People
Aug 26, 2024 -
39
E39
The Worst Mistakes We Made This Year
Sep 3, 2024 -
40
E40
The Massively Bureaucratic System for Confirming a “Miracle”
Sep 7, 2024 -
41
E41
The Board That Decides Every Place Name in the U.S.
Sep 18, 2024 -
42
E42
Why 1% of the Stock Market is Tied to 11 Random Americans
Sep 26, 2024 -
43
E43
How Ski Resorts Store Snow Over the Summer
Sep 30, 2024 -
44
E44
Why Only One US City Doesn’t Add Fluoride to Its Water
Oct 10, 2024 -
45
E45
How They Dug the Deepest Hole on Earth
Oct 17, 2024 -
46
E46
How This Card Game Accidentally Became a Stock Market
Oct 25, 2024 -
47
E47
How This Single 'M' Almost Ruined a US Presidency
Oct 30, 2024 -
48
E48
How The USA’s Only Car-Free Village Works
Oct 31, 2024 -
49
E49
Why Hawaii's H-3 is the Most Expensive Interstate Ever
Nov 12, 2024 -
50
E50
The Crazy-Complex Process of Organizing a Container Ship
Nov 19, 2024 -
51
E51
How This Waffle Restaurant Mastered Hurricanes
Nov 26, 2024 -
52
E52
How Istanbul Moved Its Airport in Just 45 Hours
Nov 30, 2024 -
53
E53
The US’ Surprisingly Busy Nuclear Emergency Team
Dec 12, 2024 -
54
E54
How a Whole Country Got Cut Off From The Internet for 38 Days
Dec 17, 2024 -
55
E55
How This Tunnel Accidentally Created an Immigration Loophole
Dec 24, 2024 -
56
E56
The $18.8 Bil, Borderline Useless Bridge Between Hong Kong and Macau
Dec 26, 2024