You Built a Great Life. Someone's Trying to Get In.
Dating after 50 puts a question on the table that nobody talks about out loud: is this chemistry, or is this indigestion? Jen Kirsch and Tony Tedesco sat with that question, and the answer is more hon...
25 Mar 9min
Shiftheads - Bob’s Bits: The No-Plan Plan That Actually Worked
Spring break with a teenager and Bob Addison's plan was simply: call it an adventure day. One rainy Vancouver Thursday later, there were axolotls, a Pink Floyd laser show in the planetarium, and a sym...
25 Mar 10min
SHIFTHEADS Why Saying Hi Is the Actual Answer to Loneliness
Talking to strangers statistically works out better than anyone walking into it believes it will. Three hundred participants. A week-long scavenger hunt built around daily stranger approaches. The exp...
24 Mar 9min
The Soap That Hates Rabbits and the Phone That Hates Apps
DIY household hacks this useful are already sitting in your bathroom cabinet and kitchen drawer, waiting. Two things most people use for exactly one purpose. Both of them capable of considerably more....
24 Mar 19min
ICYMI: Getting Flamed: When You Speak Up for a Stranger
Stepping into a stranger's conversation about vaccines in 2025 should have gone badly. The bartender doing the teasing was expected to get defensive. Instead he asked a genuine question. That gap betw...
24 Mar 9min
NEW - 200,000 Canadians a Year Leave Hospital Sicker
Hospital-acquired infections affect 200,000 Canadians every year and kill 12,000 of them. These aren't people who arrived critically ill. These are people who went in for something and picked up a sup...
24 Mar 10min
How a Fire Truck Changes Everything on Final Approach
LaGuardia Air Canada crash investigators are working through wreckage after the crash, and the question at the centre of it is a direct one. The plane landed. Why was there a fire truck in its path? ...
24 Mar 8min
A Mustard Seed, a Basketball, and Ryan Gosling in Space
Project Hail Mary science hides something real that the movie barely touches, and Dr. Elaina Hyde found it. The microbes proposed for Venus's atmosphere, the ice pockets theorized on the moon, these e...
24 Mar 9min
