On Saturday night, a man armed with two guns and multiple knives charged through security and tried to storm the ballroom of the annual White House correspondents' dinner in Washington. CBC's Paul Hunter was there. He walks us through what happened and what we know about the 31 year-old suspect.
Apr 27
10 min
Carol Guzy's World Press Photo of the Year image shows two daughters clinging to their father as ICE agents detain him at his immigration hearing. The renowned photojournalist says she hopes her work can cut through today's media noise and make people feel for others.
Apr 24
13 min
The most comprehensive archive of what happened at Canadian residential schools is about to be destroyed after a 2017 Supreme Court ruling to protect survivors privacy. Now Pulitzer and Peabody-winning journalist Connie Walker is creating a new public archive to preserve survivor accounts.
Apr 23
12 min
It was once in NASA laboratories. Now, it's part of your nighttime routine. Red light therapy has become a booming industry, with popular products like face masks and red light panels claiming to have the ability to treat anything from wrinkles to cancer. But does science back this up?
Apr 22
16 min
U.S. researchers looked at what happens to drivers on the days that major album releases drop, from artists like Bad Bunny and Taylor Swift. And they found that traffic fatalities increased by nearly 15 percent. We talk to Dr Vishal Patel of Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School about what the findings mean -- and what they can tell us about exactly what distracts us when we're driving.
Apr 21
12 min
Can't concentrate? What about thinking deeply? Attention spans are shrinking rapidly. Cal Newport, a professor of computer science at Georgetown University and the author of the bestselling book 'Deep Work' says we're facing a crisis -- an attack on our ability to think. He's calling for what he calls a revolution in defence of thinking. He outlines the steps for reclaiming your attention.
Apr 20
24 min
Rachel Collishaw is ready for a big change. She wants to leave her secluded rural home for something called cohousing. In an uncertain world, she and her husband are ready for a bit more connection. They would exchange their peaceful home for a much smaller condo, shared meals, commons spaces. But, right now, it's just a dream. One they aren't sure they can afford. Can Rachel and others like her find a better way of living with cohousing? Or is it a dream that just isn't ready to take root in Ontario?
Apr 17
25 min
Long term care workers in Nova Scotia are on strike, demanding more pay and better working conditions. Adults 85 and older are one of Canada's fastest growing age groups. It's estimated that long term care capacity will have to almost double in the next decade to meet demand. We look at the demands on long term care workers and what staffing issues mean for residents with Ty Loppie, long term-care worker and Vice President of Young Workers CUPE Nova Scotia, and Andre Picard, health columnist for the Globe and Mail and the author of Neglected No More: The Urgent Need to Improve the Lives of Canada's Elders in the Wake of a Pandemic.
Apr 16
19 min
Anthropic has not released its latest AI model "Mythos" to the public, but only to a consortium of 40 companies because it says it's too powerful when it comes to cybersecurity. It has found bugs in some of the most protected systems in the world, and if Mythos falls in the wrong hands, it can leave hundreds of organizations vulnerable. Lily Hay Newman, senior writer at WIRED unpacks it all for us.
Apr 15
10 min
Scientists spent decades watching a large group of chimpanzees in Uganda, living peacefully together. Until 2015, when suddenly things started falling apart. And within a few years, two rival factions were launching violent attacks against one another, resulting in a permanent rift. Aaron Sandel is a primatologist at the University of Texas at Austin, he explains why the violence may have erupted, and what we humans can learn from it, about social breakdown.
Apr 14
11 min
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