Neanderthals and modern humans lived in the same caves, hunted the same animals, and made nearly identical tools, so why did only one species survive? April Nowell explains what new excavations in Turkey and Israel reveal about two species who…
Subscription costs keep climbing even after you already cut cable to save money. Tony Chapman lays out why the average household now pays for seven streaming platforms, still sees ads, and still doesn’t know where the savings went. Netflix’s ad…
Hustle culture and literacy don’t sound connected until Greg Fish lays out the chain reaction: kids stop reading for boredom relief, schools turn reading into test prep, and an entire generation grows up without ever discovering what reading is actually…
How to think clearly about conspiracies starts with admitting you’re not immune to them. Lee Kuhnle and Nathan Radke, longtime co-teachers and now co-authors of Uncover Up, walk through the moral panic that fooled Lee himself when his daughter came…
A license plate story turns a routine plate swap into one of the wildest good news pickups of the year. A seventy seven year old grandmother is randomly issued a plate she never ordered, and it is nowhere near polite…
A bumper stumpers style guessing game runs through some of the best vanity plates ever spotted, from a Ferrari reading C student to a Jeep that simply says no doors. It is the kind of segment built for anyone who…
Impact crater discovery isn’t supposed to happen because someone was scouting a campsite, but that’s the story here. Dr. Gordon Osinski, a planetary geology professor at Western University, hears from strangers with a weird shape on the map all the…
Paternity leave sounds simple until you’re eight days in, running on no sleep, and watching your toddler realize he’s not an only child anymore. Elias Makos is living it right now, and he’s got the exact line for what his…
Leisure guilt is the reason you cancel plans and then spend the whole weekend feeling like you ruined something. Jen Kirsch and Tony Tedesco dig into why saying no to a date because you’d rather do nothing might actually be…
A tech news roundup opens with word that Samsung is heading into humanoid robot production, starting with industrial models before the company looks at bringing robots into everyday homes. The timing lines up with Samsung’s own unpacked event unveiling its…
Grief and poetry rarely get compared to a box of crayons, but that’s exactly the shape Molly Peacock gives it in her new collection. She built the book around the idea that loss isn’t one colour, and if you’ve ever…
A soccer fandom conversation opens with a confession: thirty million Canadians watched the World Cup, many for the first time paying close attention to a sport this country usually shrugs off. What hooked the interest wasn’t the rules so much…
A World Cup final that ran a hundred and fifteen minutes before either team scored, and one side never managed a single shot on net the entire match. Spain’s overtime winner caps off a game that looked nothing like the…
A backyard trellis turns a runaway squash vine into an overhead harvest, and a phone company still hasn’t solved the crease running down the middle of its foldable screen. Two very different problems, both waiting on a fix. The Squash…
A night meant to be spent watching a friend’s first open mic set turns into something else entirely: the sudden, terrifying thought that maybe stand-up is doable after all. Thirty people, a Monday night, and one performer with confidence that…
