A dart hitting the stage was enough to end a Metallica show outright, no warning, no encore. Richard Crouse has the story behind one of only four times the band ever walked off mid-set, plus the AI movie trend nobody…
Bitcoin crossed a dollar in 2011 and almost nobody blinked. Ed Conroy revisits the year that felt completely ordinary at the time and turns out to have been quietly loaded with the moments that changed everything after it. Conroy traces…
Normally a spacewalk sends out two people. One time in NASA history, it sent out three, because a massive satellite wasn’t cooperating and somebody suggested becoming a human tripod instead. Robert Pearlman still has the footage in his head, and…
A $6 billion bridge, a private partner, and a new rule that changes the usual math entirely: no profit until the debt gets repaid first. Tim Powers breaks down why this Gordie Howe Bridge deal reads differently than the profit-first…
A community movie library is showing up in neighbourhoods that already trade paperbacks, and it solves a problem video game owners know too well now that discs are disappearing from the box. The idea started with the tiny free libraries…
Canadian attention fatigue is the throughline tonight, tested first by rising gas prices tied to a collapsing ceasefire, then flipped on its head by a city that could not stop celebrating soccer. Gas Prices Are Climbing Again A shaky ceasefire…
A tick bite symptom is easy to miss, and this segment lays out anaplasmosis, the tick-borne illness now showing up alongside Lyme disease and pushing stomach trouble into the list of warning signs. Dr. Mitch Shulman walks through what actually…
Video game remakes just did something Hollywood remakes have not managed in years, and the numbers make the case on their own. A pirate game older than most Netflix subscriptions outsold a brand new Disney movie. The comparison is Assassin…
If you’ve ever dated someone years apart from you in age, this one puts language to what that actually felt like, the parts that worked, and the moment it stopped. Tony Tedesco and Jen Kirsch share their own age gap…
If you run a small business and you’ve ever posted a cash-only sign to dodge card fees, the math in this one might change your mind. It turns out the fee you’re avoiding and the sale you’re losing land in…
Kessler syndrome is the risk hiding behind the race to launch satellites, and it has very little to do with giving you better internet. Greg Fish traces the satellite boom back to social media and search companies running out of…
What if the classic grey alien everyone describes is not an alien at all, but a human from thousands of years in the future? This conversation walks through a theory that reframes decades of UFO sightings, then digs into one…
Norway’s soccer team lost to England, then went viral days later for something that had nothing to do with the match: a stuffed drunk raccoon somebody actually brought home from the trip. It raises the real question. Postcards, magnets, shot…
Every invasive weed trick you’ve tried has probably failed, and Andy Barrar has the reason bindweed and mint keep winning. From there he turns to the AI chip now deciding which laptop is worth buying and a satellite company testing…
Competitors in power slapping get hit hard enough to lose consciousness, and a Kitchener woman just became the sport’s first women’s flyweight champion. From there, a goat that helped fight a Colorado wildfire gets its own merchandise line, and Regina…
