NEW - No Save Button, No Shortcuts: What the Original Game Boy Actually Built
The Game Boy anniversary is a reason to talk about something that keeps coming up in conversations about 1989: the things you had to earn before anyone handed them to you. Ed Conroy argues that genera...
24 Huhti 9min
Great Concerts, Thin Biography: The Michael Jackson Movie Reviewed
Michael Jackson's biopic is in theatres now, and whether it deserves the praise depends entirely on what you want from it. Meanwhile, a UK judge just called Amy Winehouse's father an unreliable witnes...
24 Huhti 19min
Same Mall. Same Moment. Two Completely Different Experiences
Perception and storytelling are the same mechanism, and both of them drift. Shane Hewitt makes the case that the game of telephone is not just a party game. It is the operating system running undernea...
23 Huhti 9min
NEW - One Optimist, One Realist, One Very Big Week for Canada
Canada-US trade is being negotiated against a backdrop of a premier's private jet controversy, airline consolidations, and a summer travel season that is starting to feel less certain by the week. Jam...
23 Huhti 18min
SHIFTHEADS: Romance Doesn't Die Dramatically. It Dies in Sweatpants on the Couch
Relationship drift does not announce itself. Jen Kirsch and Tony Tedesco have a name for where it ends up: roommates. Not a blowup, not a betrayal. Just two people sharing a couch, sharing Wi-Fi, shar...
23 Huhti 8min
INSIDE COPY: Drake Put Ice in a Parking Lot and Toronto Had to Call the Fire Department
Weird news stories today do not get much better than a rapper placing a massive block of ice in downtown Toronto for an album launch and the city spending 16 hours melting it. Toronto Fire was called....
23 Huhti 8min
Shiftheads - How a Joke About Birds Became Something People Actually Believe
How conspiracy theories spread is the question Dr. Lee Kuhnle has been building a career around, and the answer is less about deception than about distance from the original idea. He calls it metaphor...
23 Huhti 19min
ICYMI - Being Professionally Awful Online Now Pays. That Is the Actual Problem
Why people are meaner online has a cleaner answer than most people want to admit. Greg Fish ran the experiment himself: three months of deliberately aggressive posts on social media, taking bait, goin...
23 Huhti 9min
