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Half as Interesting Season 2026

Returning Series

Season 2026 Episodes

26 episodes
1
How Iran Smuggles 777 Airplanes
Jan 14, 2026
2
This Is The Worst Cell Phone of All Time
Jan 21, 2026
3
The Messy Science of Escalator Etiquette
Jan 28, 2026
4
The Debate Over the Best Parking Garage Design
Jan 30, 2026
5
The Weirdly Specific Science Behind Ship Camouflage
Jan 31, 2026
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6
Why The US Government Put 480 Million Needles Into the Sky
Feb 10, 2026
7
The Debacle Behind The 2026 Olympic Hockey Rink
Feb 25, 2026
8
The Terrible Design of the US Mail Truck
Feb 27, 2026
9
The Highway Loophole That Created The Worst Town in America
Mar 2, 2026
10
Nobody Knows How Tylenol Works
Mar 17, 2026
11
The Crazy-Fast Logistics of Flower Distribution
Mar 24, 2026
12
The International Airport That Can Only Send Flights to Turkey
Mar 27, 2026
13
Why Amtrak’s Most Important Tunnels Are Doomed
Apr 8, 2026
14
The Ancient, Strange Coding Language that 95% of ATMs Use
Apr 10, 2026
15
The Logistics of 911
Apr 11, 2026
16
Why This River Doesn’t Reach the Ocean
Apr 22, 2026
17
How the Nuclear Football Works
Apr 29, 2026
18
How Forensic Linguistics Works
Apr 30, 2026
19
The Seven Landlocked Countries That Have Navies
May 12, 2026
20
Why They Built The World’s Longest Rail Tunnel
May 28, 2026
21
Russia’s Weird, Bad Alternative Internet
May 29, 2026
22
What’s The World’s Longest Domestic Flight?
Jun 1, 2026
23
New Jersey’s Big Fight with FIFA
Jun 22, 2026
24
Why This NYC Skyscraper Has Been Half-Finished Since 2018
Jun 25, 2026
25
Why This Giant Bag of CO2 is Actually Useful
Jun 26, 2026
26
The Tests to Determine If AI Is Smarter Than a Person
Jul 14, 2026