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ICYMI - A Human Tripod Once Caught a Falling Satellite
Season 2 Episode 219
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 s…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
The Year Bitcoin Hit a Dollar and Investors bought Pizza
Season 2 Episode 219
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 ha…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Richard Crouse: 60ft Puppets and a Self Cast AI Wanna-Be
Season 2 Episode 219
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 tim…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Video Games Lost Their Discs. This Box Could Fix It
Season 2 Episode 218
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 …
3 months, 3 weeks ago
NEW - What It Takes for Canadians to Actually Pay Attention
Season 2 Episode 218
Canadian attention fatigue is the throughline tonight, tested first by rising gas prices tied to a collapsing ceasefire, then flipped on its head by …
3 months, 3 weeks ago
SHIFTHEADS: How Long You Actually Have After a Tick Bite
Season 2 Episode 218
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…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
NEW - What Video Games Get Right That Hollywood Doesn't
Season 2 Episode 218
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 th…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Shiftheads - The Alien Theory That Says They're Just Future Humans
Season 2 Episode 218
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 …
3 months, 3 weeks ago
ICYMI - The Real Reason Everyone Is Racing to Launch Satellites
Season 2 Episode 218
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 tra…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
NEW - For the Business Owners: Why That Cash-Only Sign Might Be Costing You Sales
Season 2 Episode 218
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…
3 months, 3 weeks ago