SHIFTHEADS: The Skies Over Thunder Bay Turned Burnt Orange
Ash falling from the sky. Homes smelling like campfires from the inside. A town called Collins evacuated by boat as flames closed in. This is what forest fire season actually looked like on the ground...
17 Jul 9min
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
The Year Bitcoin Hit a Dollar and Investors bought Pizza
Bitcoin crossed a dollar in 2011 and almost nobody blinked. Ed Conroy revisits the year that felt completely ordinary at the time and turns out to have been quietly loaded with the moments that change...
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
