Tonight We're Gathering Around the Radio. When Did We Stop Doing That?

Artemis splashdown tonight is at 8:07 Eastern and there is something about that specific time being locked in for days that makes it feel like an appointment worth keeping. Parachutes open first. Then the capsule hits the water. The math behind all of it has been done and checked and trusted by peo…

NEW - Justin Trudeau Got Three Minutes and Deathly Applause at His Own Party's Convention

Federal by-election Monday has three ridings up and Terrebonne is the one nobody is calling easy. Supporting Liberals there has historically been like wearing a Leafs jersey at the Bell Centre. Andrew Caddell is on the ground in Montreal at the Liberal policy convention and says the ground is telli…

SHIFTHEADS: New York Is Losing Its Mind Over a Grapefruit-Sized Bird. We Need to Talk About This

Stories you absolutely did not need to know are arriving twenty minutes before Artemis splashdown and they are exactly the right warm-up. A small bird with a giant needle beak is filling Bryant Park in Midtown Manhattan every single day. New Yorkers are showing up on purpose. The bird meeps. The N…

NEW - What the Hell Should I Watch This Weekend: Malcolm Returned, and Darth Maul Built an Army

Your weekend streaming options just got a verdict. The Boys is going out swinging. Malcolm in the Middle came back. Darth Maul has eight episodes and a cliffhanger, and Steve Stebbing is not here to tell you they're all worth watching. Three shows, three very different verdicts. One is ending ever…

Shiftheads - The Relief Test: Dr. Laurie Betito on Knowing When You're Done

Relationship breakup signs are rarely obvious, and the moment most people act on them is far later than they think. The average couple lives in distress for five to seven years before doing anything about it. By then, Dr. Laurie says, half of them are past the point of repair. The Seven-Year Trap …

ICYMI - Your Job: Do You Even Know What You're Being Measured On?

AI workplace redesign has a specific problem nobody is talking about clearly. Employees are using the tools. Managers are getting data. Those two things are not producing the same picture and the person in between has no idea the gap exists. Picture a folder labelled Christmas in a workplace archi…

NEW - Most People With Chronic Pain Are Waiting for a Moment Like This

Living with chronic pain is something most people are doing quietly and calling something else. Nagging. Stiff. Just how it is. Desmond Williams did that for twelve years. He knew his condition was hereditary. His mother had already been diagnosed. He kept going to work at the warehouse anyway. Th…

NEW: Atlantis Landed. Then Nobody Went for Twelve Years

Space Shuttle Atlantis touched down on July 21 2011 and the shuttle program ended with it. By that point the machine was irreplaceable, not because it was precious but because it had been repaired and adapted so many times that every component was one of a kind. The only thing left to do was glide …

A Canadian Telescope Caught a Canadian Astronaut Flying Past the Moon at 4 a.m

Artemis II splashdown is scheduled for 8:07 Eastern, and the Orion capsule is cooking toward Earth fast enough that reentry is expected to produce a significant fireball through the atmosphere. Everything on NASA's tracker is showing green. Nobody wants to jinx it. On April 8th at 4 a.m., the Alan…

SHIFTHEADS: Canada Has a Syrup Reserve But No Oil Reserve. Priorities

Maple syrup fraud just became the most Canadian scandal possible. Quebec has a strategic reserve, a single desk authentication system, and wholesale testing on every batch. Someone still managed to swap sugar cane syrup into maple syrup cans, put stickers over the logos, and sell them to grocers ac…