Shiftheads - When Treason Was the Backup Plan To Save Humanity
Nuclear weapons control rests, constitutionally, with one person. In 1969 that person was drunk, incensed, and on the phone to the Joint Chiefs ordering a strike on North Korea. Is a patriot someone w...
16 Apr 19min
ICYMI - The Cold Objective Machine That Just Agrees With You
AI love bombing feels different from a friend agreeing with you. A friend you can discount. They like you. They are on your side. A machine has no side. And when it tells you that you are right, it fe...
16 Apr 9min
Artemis ReCap - Eat Cookies, Name a Crater and Then Back to Work
Artemis mission photographs showed the far side of the moon with Earth in the background. They looked like a science fiction film. The astronauts said exactly that. A neuroscientist had the livestream...
16 Apr 9min
Vassy Kapelos: The Envelope She Almost Never Opened
A random act of kindness arrived in a hot pink envelope at a CTV newsroom during a federal by-election special. It sat unopened all day. She assumed it was hate mail. Her producer finally cracked it o...
15 Apr 9min
GOOD NEWS TUESDAY - The 90-Year-Old Who Chose Kettlebells for Her Birthday
Good News Tuesday lands on a week that opened with a 3.9 earthquake near Ottawa and somehow still found four stories worth stopping for. A 90-year-old Ottawa woman celebrated her birthday with a Cross...
15 Apr 9min
Cancer Was in Dinosaurs. Dr. Chris Hillis on How Far We’ve Come
Cancer treatment advances have changed what a diagnosis means, and most of us haven't updated our mental model for it. Cancer was in dinosaur bones. It is as old as life itself, and it will not be fix...
15 Apr 9min
NEW - The Accountability Question Nobody Could Answer
Canadian government accountability is the question underneath a majority nobody seems to be celebrating. Mark Carney got his sweep, two floor crossers pushed him over the line, and the Prime Minister ...
15 Apr 9min
Shiftheads - Buffalo Sabres: Almost Canadian But They Kept the Receipts for 14 Years
Buffalo Sabres playoffs are back, and they came prepared. The last time Buffalo made the postseason, Stephen Harper was Prime Minister, Minecraft had just launched, and homes cost $365,000. Fourteen y...
15 Apr 9min
