Half as Interesting Season 2023 Episode release dates & where to watch

1. Why Building Ski Lifts Is Incredibly Hard

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

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

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

5. The Weirdly Complex Science of Snow Removal

6. Why the IRS Taxes Illegal Income

7. The Corporate Conspiracy Behind California’s Smallest Town

8. How Amish People Get Around Not Using Electricity

9. Why Soda Cans are Shaped Differently in Hawaii

10. Why the US Gov Reshapes the Mississippi River

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

12. How Science Made You Finally Like Brussels Sprouts

13. Why Every Baseball Stadium Has Different Rules

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

15. Why American Lawns All Look The Same

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

17. North Korea’s Bizarre New Propaganda Program

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

19. How Amazon Broke the US Patent Office

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

21. How To Spot a Really Good Art Forgery

22. The Court That Settles Wikipedia Editor Drama

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

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

25. Why You Can Legally Steal From a Sinking Ship

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

27. How the White House Reads Every Letter it Gets

28. How Much Happiness Can Money Buy?

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

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

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

32. The Website Where You Can Order The Bubonic Plague

33. Dyson’s Disinformation War with Big Paper Towel

34. How Planes Forecast Turbulence

35. Why Tape Storage is Making a Sneaky Comeback

36. How the Fake Meat Industry Saved Dippin’ Dots

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

38. The Intense Logistics of Truffles

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

40. How Argentina Accidentally Gave Germans 40% Off Everything

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

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

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

44. Trains’ Weirdly Massive Problem with Leaves

45. How Porsche Owns Volkswagen and Volkswagen Owns Porsche

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

47. The Weirdly Lucrative Business of Searching for Old Jeans

48. Chicago’s $10 Billion Street Parking Mistake

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

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

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

52. The Surprisingly Complex Logistics of Product Returns

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

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

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

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

57. How to Fail a Kitchen Inspection

58. How The President’s Official Vacation Home Works

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

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

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

62. How Submarines Survive at 36,201 Feet Below

63. Why China Built an Antenna Bigger Than NYC

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

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

66. How This Utah Hotel Legally Became a Town

67. Why The US is in 42 Different National Emergencies

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

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

70. The Arctic Vault That Protects Data from the Apocalypse

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

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

73. The Controversial Machine That’s Ruining Bowling

74. What Exactly Happens When You Check a Bag

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

76. Why China Took the US’ Pandas