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NEW: Atlantis Landed. Then Nobody Went for Twelve Years
Season 2 Episode 154
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 i…
6 months ago
A Canadian Telescope Caught a Canadian Astronaut Flying Past the Moon at 4 a.m
Season 2 Episode 154
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 …
6 months ago
SHIFTHEADS: Canada Has a Syrup Reserve But No Oil Reserve. Priorities
Season 2 Episode 154
Maple syrup fraud just became the most Canadian scandal possible. Quebec has a strategic reserve, a single desk authentication system, and wholesale …
6 months ago
NEW - The Year the Shuttle Stopped and Everything Else Started
Season 2 Episode 154
Throwback Thursday 2011 is the year everything was normal right up until it wasn't. The Space Shuttle Atlantis glided home in July with no engines an…
6 months ago
Shiftheads - She Was Denouncing Floor Crossers Last Week. This Week She Is One
Season 2 Episode 154
Marilyn Gladue floor crossing to the Liberals is the kind of news that made Rob Breakenridge wonder if he was thinking of the wrong person. Then wond…
6 months ago
We Know the Photo. We Never Knew His Name. Not This Time
Season 2 Episode 154
Artemis crew splashdown is at 8:07 Eastern tomorrow and before they come home there is one thing worth sitting with. The Earthrise photograph from Ap…
6 months ago
Athletes Can't Leave the Arena Anymore. It Follows Them Home
Season 2 Episode 154
Athlete social media pressure has changed what it means to be a professional. It used to stop at the rink doors. Now there are dedicated accounts tra…
6 months ago
The Last Year Nobody Had Their Phone Out at a Concert
Season 2 Episode 154
2011 was the last normal year. That's not nostalgia. That's what historians who study decades for a living actually call it. Go find concert footage …
6 months ago
You're Not Imagining It. Movies Have Gotten Longer
Season 2 Episode 154
Movies getting longer is not a feeling. A researcher named Steven Follows checked the runtimes of 36,000 theatrically released films from 1980 to 202…
6 months ago
To Be or Not to Be. Also, What Are We Drinking?
Season 2 Episode 154
Riz Ahmed's Hamlet sets Shakespeare's tragedy inside London's South Asian community, keeps the original language almost entirely intact, and puts the…
6 months ago