Financial panic investing has a trigger and right now you’re surrounded by them. The gas price on the sign jumped overnight. The news is about oil and conflict and markets. Everything on your screen is red. And somewhere in the back of your head a voice is telling you to do something about it. Think…
Millennial party culture has a specific before and after and you lived through both sides of it. Before: Project X was in theatres, G6 was on every speaker, and the whole cultural message was that a real night out required spending serious money and recovering for two days. After: you are genuinely considering whether your…
Iran war unconditional surrender sounds decisive until you ask what comes after. You are watching a conflict that has been building for fifty years, funded by a regime that paid for the Houthis in Yemen, Hezbollah in Lebanon, and Hamas in Gaza simultaneously. The bombing started a week ago. Nobody has clearly defined what the…
Vegas flamingo kidnapping is a sentence that exists now, and the man responsible is Canadian, which honestly tracks. You lose at poker, you walk the casino floor, you enter the habitat, and you leave with a live bird named Peachy under your arm. The search warrant for his hotel room listed feathers, blood samples, and…
Shane Rants:Canadian energy self-sufficiency has an argument and right now you are paying it every time you fill up. Diesel was $1.20 a litre not long ago. This week it crossed $1.99 in parts of Ottawa. The Strait of Hormuz, a 33-kilometre opening at the mouth of the Gulf, is blocked. A thousand ships are…
MOVIES: Pixar Is Back and Frankenstein Has Dance Sequences New movies this weekend include a Pixar film that the people who wrote Pixar off are going to have to reckon with. You put a human consciousness into an animatronic beaver body, you cast it brilliantly, you skirt the line between genuinely funny for adults and…
Phone ruining relationships has a clinical name now and you have probably done it this week. Phubbing is phone snubbing, the moment you reach for your screen while someone who loves you is sitting right there. It has been linked in research to relationship dissatisfaction, more conflict, feeling less valued, and more jealousy. It is…
Meditation brain science just found something that had never been recorded before and it changes the case for why any of this matters. Every night while you sleep, your brain runs a cleaning cycle, flushing out the protein buildup and metabolic waste that accumulates during the day. Researchers at Vanderbilt and Brigham and Women’s just…
Ultra processed foods are changing what you eat without you noticing. You order french fries thinking you’re getting a potato. You’re getting up to 30 ingredients: preservatives, citric acid, chemical fillers, all cooked in oil that’s been sitting for days. White bread is a sugar sponge with no nutritional density and a shelf life that…
AI disinformation looks different depending on where you are standing and your version of this conflict is almost certainly not the same as anyone else’s. The feed was personalised to keep you engaged. The algorithm doesnot care whether what it shows you is complete. It cares that you come back. That was true before the…
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