1986 Challenger Explosion: What Changed in How We Process Tragedy
Challenger explosion footage plays on the classroom TV. You're sitting crisscross on the library floor with thirty other kids. A teacher was going to space. You watched her die. Then nobody talked abo...
30 Jan 9min
NEW - Throwback Thursday: The Silence You Still Remember, Challenger ‘86
Space Shuttle Challenger memories all start the same way: silence. You're in a classroom. The TV cart gets wheeled in. Seven astronauts board the shuttle on screen. Seventy-three seconds after liftoff...
30 Jan 9min
SHIFTHEADS: How to Spot Gene Edited Bacon (Spoiler: You Can't)
Gene edited pork is legal as of this week. You're holding two packages of bacon. Identical price. Identical appearance. One package contains pork with DNA tweaked in a lab using CRISPR. The other does...
30 Jan 9min
Shiftheads - How to Accidentally Kill Your Own Movement: Alberta Separation Fail
Alberta separatism debate has a foreign interference problem. Your movement needs legitimacy. Some supporters are meeting with White House officials. Steve Bannon's show is talking about taking over A...
30 Jan 9min
Wheel in the TV: A Generation Watched The Challenger The Same Way
Your teacher spent weeks building this up. The Challenger disaster wasn't supposed to happen. A schoolteacher was going to space, and you were going to watch her teach from orbit. You're in class, lun...
30 Jan 9min
Steal This: Rachel McAdams' (Desert Island) Revenge Strategy
Celebrity Feuds Expose Entertainment's Power ProblemCelebrity feuds reveal who has protection and who doesn't. You're an acclaimed actor. A legendary director calls your Oscar-nominated work "weak sau...
30 Jan 20min
Shiftheads - Two Thirds of Your Life Runs on Autopilot
You delete Instagram to break the doom scrolling habit. Automatic behaviors still control you. You grab your phone, swipe up, and tap the same screen location. Except now it opens your banking app ins...
29 Jan 9min
NEW - The Zipline Escape East German Guards Mistook for a Spy Mission
Berlin Wall escapes required impossible choices between safety and freedom. You're standing in East Berlin, 1965. Your family is hiding in a ministry bathroom with an out of order sign on the door. In...
29 Jan 19min
