NEW - The Last Space Shuttle Flew the Same Year Vancouver Burned
NASA closed out thirty years of space shuttle missions the same year Vancouver's streets filled with flipped cars after a Stanley Cup Game 7 loss. 2011 packed in more than it gets credit for, and layi...
17 Jul 8min
NEW - Flying for Free Isn't Dead. It Just Got Harder
Four years of saving points. One redemption. And the taxes and fees still took a $900 bite out of a flight that was supposed to be free. That's the moment most people quietly give up on the whole idea...
17 Jul 10min
Shiftheads - The Bridge Deal Where Nobody Gets Paid Until Debt Clears
A $6 billion bridge, a private partner, and a new rule that changes the usual math entirely: no profit until the debt gets repaid first. Tim Powers breaks down why this Gordie Howe Bridge deal reads d...
17 Jul 9min
ICYMI - A Human Tripod Once Caught a Falling Satellite
Normally a spacewalk sends out two people. One time in NASA history, it sent out three, because a massive satellite wasn't cooperating and somebody suggested becoming a human tripod instead. Robert Pe...
17 Jul 9min
Richard Crouse: 60ft Puppets and a Self Cast AI Wanna-Be
A dart hitting the stage was enough to end a Metallica show outright, no warning, no encore. Richard Crouse has the story behind one of only four times the band ever walked off mid-set, plus the AI mo...
17 Jul 19min
Video Games Lost Their Discs. This Box Could Fix It
A community movie library is showing up in neighbourhoods that already trade paperbacks, and it solves a problem video game owners know too well now that discs are disappearing from the box. The idea ...
16 Jul 9min
NEW - What It Takes for Canadians to Actually Pay Attention
Canadian attention fatigue is the throughline tonight, tested first by rising gas prices tied to a collapsing ceasefire, then flipped on its head by a city that could not stop celebrating soccer. Gas ...
16 Jul 19min
