Shiftheads - TIFF Opening Weekend: Why Some People Go To The Same Film Festival For Decades
Ben Harrison explains what keeps people coming back to TIFF year after year, including attendees well into their seventies and eighties who treat it as an annual tradition. It isn't really about the m...
12 Sep 9min
Unlucky? He Was Born on Friday the 13th, So He Ran the Numbers
Jeffrey Rosenthal has a personal stake in this question. He was born on a Friday the 13th, and every time someone calls the date unlucky, it feels a little bit personal. So he did what a statistics pr...
12 Sep 10min
Half of Us Won't Remember 9/11 by the 2030s
Twenty five years after September 11th, the hosts compare notes on where they were that morning, and the gap between those old enough to remember it and those who were not born yet. One documentary es...
11 Sep 9min
NEW - The Non-Written Rule Jacking Up Your Grocery Bill
Food inflation is coming, but not for the reason most people assume. Dr. Sylvain Charlebois breaks down a quiet, unwritten pricing rule grocers follow every year, and why the months right before and a...
11 Sep 9min
Why Your Coffee Order Might Be Secretly Dessert
Every so often a fast food item goes viral for its sheer excess, and Lianne Phillipson has seen this pattern before. She traces the connection between a nearly two thousand calorie shake making headli...
11 Sep 10min
Throwback Thursday: What American News Sounded Like Hours Before 9/11
This Throwback Thursday plays the actual ABC broadcast from just hours before the towers were hit, followed by CNN's coverage a day later, to hear exactly how fast everything changed. The contrast bet...
11 Sep 8min
ICYMI - The Moment Rob Breakenridge Knew the World Changed
Twenty five years after September 11th, Rob Breakenridge describes waking up to a clock radio reporting what sounded like a small plane accident, and the exact moment that story turned into something ...
11 Sep 9min
How 9/11 Quietly Rewrote the Video Game Industry
September 11th changed more than politics and airport security. It reached directly into entertainment, forcing edits to films most people have watched dozens of times, from a pulled Spider-Man poster...
11 Sep 9min
