NEW Target Kids: Gambling Advertising, and Brain Development
Gambling advertising in Canada is targeting the demographic least equipped to resist it. Steve Joordens explains exactly why, and what two bills in Parliament are trying to do about it. The brain scie...
14 Touko 8min
Sports Betting Is Just the New (less scary) Word for Gambling
Sports betting did not arrive to replace gambling. It arrived to replace the word. One listener's text put a fine point on it: kids watching sports with their parents should be picking up lessons abou...
14 Touko 9min
SHIFTHEADS: 162 Declassified UFO Files: What's Real, What's a Hoax, and What Nobody Can Explain
Declassified UFO files released by the Pentagon on May 8th look explosive on the surface. Nathan Radke spent the better part of his weekend reading through them and came back with something more compl...
14 Touko 19min
When Quantum Computers Break Everything Including Your Money
Quantum computers could break the encryption protecting every cryptocurrency on the planet. That is not a distant theory. It is an active scramble. Blockchains link transactions through cryptographic ...
14 Touko 9min
NEW - Why Is Yawning Contagious? Dr. Samantha Yammine on the Study That Made Things Weirder
Contagious yawning remains one of the most studied and least understood reflexes in human biology. A new finding about yawning in the womb just made the mystery harder to explain. Thirty-eight pregnan...
14 Touko 9min
ICYMI - Dunkin' Donuts Canada: Tony Chapman Makes the Case Against the 200-Location Bet
Dunkin' Donuts Canada is happening: a master franchise has been secured with plans to open one location per week up to 200. Tony Chapman has questions. The operator already owns Second Cup and Milesto...
14 Touko 9min
NEW: Good News Tuesday: How Finding the Good Is Itself the Good News
Good news Tuesday comes from a simple observation: the bad is loud and the good needs to be found. Two stories this week prove the finding is worth the effort. The first: a pair of adult kids, 19 and ...
13 Touko 9min
Finding the Good, Even Inside the Bad + Tulips
Dunkin' Donuts is coming back to Canada, a Canadian chain is bringing it in, and the team has thoughts on what this does to the Starbucks and Tim Hortons of the world. The opening question is what act...
13 Touko 9min
