Half as Interesting - Season 2026

1. How Iran Smuggles 777 Airplanes

Aired: 1/14/2026

2. This Is The Worst Cell Phone of All Time

Aired: 1/21/2026

3. The Messy Science of Escalator Etiquette

Aired: 1/28/2026

4. The Debate Over the Best Parking Garage Design

Aired: 1/30/2026

5. The Weirdly Specific Science Behind Ship Camouflage

Aired: 1/31/2026

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6. Why The US Government Put 480 Million Needles Into the Sky

Aired: 2/10/2026

7. The Debacle Behind The 2026 Olympic Hockey Rink

Aired: 2/25/2026

8. The Terrible Design of the US Mail Truck

Aired: 2/27/2026

9. The Highway Loophole That Created The Worst Town in America

Aired: 3/2/2026

10. Nobody Knows How Tylenol Works

Aired: 3/17/2026

11. The Crazy-Fast Logistics of Flower Distribution

Aired: 3/24/2026

12. The International Airport That Can Only Send Flights to Turkey

Aired: 3/27/2026

13. Why Amtrak’s Most Important Tunnels Are Doomed

Aired: 4/8/2026

14. The Ancient, Strange Coding Language that 95% of ATMs Use

Aired: 4/10/2026

15. The Logistics of 911

Aired: 4/11/2026

16. Why This River Doesn’t Reach the Ocean

Aired: 4/22/2026

17. How the Nuclear Football Works

Aired: 4/29/2026

18. How Forensic Linguistics Works

Aired: 4/30/2026

19. The Seven Landlocked Countries That Have Navies

Aired: 5/12/2026

20. Why They Built The World’s Longest Rail Tunnel

Aired: 5/28/2026

21. Russia’s Weird, Bad Alternative Internet

Aired: 5/29/2026

22. What’s The World’s Longest Domestic Flight?

Aired: 6/1/2026

23. New Jersey’s Big Fight with FIFA

Aired: 6/22/2026

24. Why This NYC Skyscraper Has Been Half-Finished Since 2018

Aired: 6/25/2026

25. Why This Giant Bag of CO2 is Actually Useful

Aired: 6/26/2026

26. The Tests to Determine If AI Is Smarter Than a Person

Aired: 7/14/2026