Humanoid robots at McDonald’s are not a concept anymore. Shanghai is testing four of them right now: one in full uniform taking orders, one in a chef’s hat, one delivering trays to tables, and one small enough for kids to…
Why we complain is rarely the story we tell ourselves about it. Leadership consultant Rachel Levy draws the line between the complaint you can hear and the one underneath it, and that second one is where the real conversation lives.…
Spring break with a teenager and Bob Addison’s plan was simply: call it an adventure day. One rainy Vancouver Thursday later, there were axolotls, a Pink Floyd laser show in the planetarium, and a symphony that may or may not…
DIY household hacks this useful are already sitting in your bathroom cabinet and kitchen drawer, waiting. Two things most people use for exactly one purpose. Both of them capable of considerably more. **The Garden Trick You Already Own** Irish Spring…
Talking to strangers statistically works out better than anyone walking into it believes it will. Three hundred participants. A week-long scavenger hunt built around daily stranger approaches. The expected rejection rate versus the actual rejection rate is the kind of…
Stepping into a stranger’s conversation about vaccines in 2025 should have gone badly. The bartender doing the teasing was expected to get defensive. Instead he asked a genuine question. That gap between the expected reaction and the actual one is…
Project Hail Mary science hides something real that the movie barely touches, and Dr. Elaina Hyde found it. The microbes proposed for Venus’s atmosphere, the ice pockets theorized on the moon, these exist in science papers, not just screenplays. The…
LaGuardia Air Canada crash investigators are working through wreckage after the crash, and the question at the centre of it is a direct one. The plane landed. Why was there a fire truck in its path? Two Air Canada Jazz…
Hospital-acquired infections affect 200,000 Canadians every year and kill 12,000 of them. These aren’t people who arrived critically ill. These are people who went in for something and picked up a superbug that antibiotics cannot touch. The cleanest-looking room in…
Iran conflict costs are landing on a Saskatchewan farm before the planting season even starts. Trump said he’ll keep bombing for fun. The markets moved when he hinted at negotiations. The diesel bill didn’t. What It Costs When the World…
Financial anxiety has a way of arriving before the bill does. Somewhere between the morning news and the gas station sign, a number that has nothing to do with your actual account balance starts to feel personal. And once it…
Chuck Norris’s legacy hit different for the generation that never watched his movies. They knew his name every single day anyway, in classrooms and group chats, because the joke was just that good. He passed away at 86, and somehow…
Afroman’s defamation case win started with a police raid that found absolutely nothing. No drugs. No kidnapping victims. Just lemon pound cake on the counter. The officers filed a $4 million defamation suit against him for making music videos about…
Pierre Poilievre on Joe Rogan was always going to be a moment worth watching. What nobody predicted was that the most striking thing about a two-hour conversation on the biggest podcast in America would be what he chose not to…
What to watch this weekend is usually a Friday question with easy answers. This Friday it comes with a little more weight. Chuck Norris passed away at 86 and the generation that grew up on Missing in Action and Octagon…
