Motorcycle fuel economy is not something most people think about. Ryan O’Donnell did, and the numbers surprised him. Motorcycles average between 30 and 60 miles per gallon. Some models reach 100 MPG. A Honda Civic from 2023 to 2026 sits…
NHL draft lottery day handed Toronto the number one pick and a decision to make, all on the same afternoon. The Maple Leafs are expected to select Gavin McKenna with the top pick. That news arrives alongside reports from The…
Greenwashing is not always deliberate. John Pabon says it ranges from fossil fuel companies outright lying to corporations that over-claim and governments and celebrities performing concern they do not actually have. The most effective example he offers is the carbon…
Costco date night did not start as a plan. It started at 8:27pm when it was too late to go home and cook dinner. Bob Addison and his wife got their smoked meat sandwich order in three minutes before the…
The education system has been optimizing for grades for a long time. Dr. Perry Adler says AI just made the shortcut obvious. His framework is clear: critical thinking is the ability to slow down, consider multiple angles, apply logic and…
Ask Jeeves shut down May 1st. Kris Abel says it was built around the same idea that AI is now executing, asking questions and getting answers, but it ran out of runway before the technology caught up to the concept.…
May the 4th landed on a Friday this year and Ryan O’Donnell spent it exactly the way you would expect: three films deep by the time the show aired, running them as background noise the way most people run music.…
Spring gardening has a temperature threshold Andy Baryer treats as non-negotiable: nighttime lows need to reach 10 degrees Celsius before tomatoes, peppers, or squash go in the ground. When to Plant and How to Harden Metro Vancouver hit 25 degrees…
Summer travel planning in 2026 requires a different checklist than it used to, and Barry Choi has gone through it. Flight cancellations tied to jet fuel concerns are real, but Barry Choi says airlines are cutting unprofitable domestic routes well…
Everyone has a thing. The question is when to show it to someone new, and Tony Tedesco and Jen Kirsch do not entirely agree on the answer. Tony Tedesco’s framework is signal, not data: hint at the thing without diving…
SMS blasters are industrial-grade cybercrime tools manufactured and sold specifically to compromise phones at scale. Rob Beggs says one is enough to take out the real cell towers in a parking lot and replace them without anyone noticing. The text…
Tax refund season has a predictable problem: the money gets spent mentally before it ever arrives. Jessica Moorhouse says writing it down before it lands changes the outcome. Her ratio is 80 to 90 percent toward something responsible and 10…
Federal public servant wages are at the centre of a fight that Andrew Caddell says tells you something about where the government’s priorities actually are. A New Governor General and a Wage War Mark Carney is expected to announce a…
Star Wars Day lands on a Friday and Ryan O’Donnell has a theory he has been sitting with since he was a kid. The best peanut butter and jelly sandwich is your recipe. You could have an objectively better sandwich…
The corn flake was an accident. Tony Chapman says what Kellogg’s built from that accident was one of the most effective kid marketing systems ever put on a grocery store shelf. Cereal was shelved at grocery cart height on purpose.…
