Tuesday, July 28, 2026

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Sniffing chocolate for ‘leg day’ at the gym is the latest craze. Here’s the reality

No eating, no calories, just smelling. The journal claimed: Sniffing chocolate could make your leg day workout easier, even on an empty stomach. Headlines followed, including: Sniff chocolate, do more reps without trying harder! This came with the qualifier: We’re not even kidding. It’s a...

What I learnt from the 30-year overnight success of Up founder Dom Pym

We wrapped up almost 90 minutes later, and I immediately knew my decision to start a podcast was a good one. Even if the last thing this content-saturated world apparently needs is another content creator.  I interviewed Dom because I...

People who reply to trivial texts within seconds but go quiet for days when a message actually matters have often built two separate systems:...

The strange thing is not that some people reply quickly. Most of us do, at least when the message is easy. The strange thing is the split. A trivial text arrives and the answer comes back almost immediately: yes, fine,...

Jane Bolsters Software Portfolio with Acquisition of Local Startup Ginger Desk

With a keen eye for gaps in the market, natural health expert Dr. Julie Durnan leveraged her 15 years of industry experience to found Ginger Desk after observing how practitioners grappled with admin tasks. Durnan envisioned a service that could shoulder these...

A Major Battery Energy Storage Project is Coming to Vancouver Island

British Columbia is planning to build a sizeable battery energy storage facility. BC Hydro revealed this week that the new project, to be situated adjacent to the Vancouver Island Terminal Substation near Duncan, will deliver at least 100 megawatts of...

Kelowna’s Nordic AutoFeed Brings Automation to the Barn

At most horse barns, feeding happens on a schedule designed around people. A Kelowna company has developed an automated alternative intended to prioritize horses’ natural grazing patterns and physiological needs. As a part of a product diversification program, led by...

The quiet reason some adults keep a drawer of pens, notepads, and unopened stationery they never use may have less to do with clutter...

A drawer of unused stationery can behave less like household clutter and more like a fossil bed. Each layer records a version of a person who once stood in a bookshop aisle and believed, quite genuinely, that the leather-bound...

People who take the long way home even when they’re tired may not be wasting time, the drive between work and the front door...

The journey home can be one of the last relatively unstructured spaces in a working adult’s day. For some people, no colleague needs an answer, no household task has begun, and no social role requires immediate attention. That is why...

OpenAI admits its agent went rogue, hacking Hugging Face during testing

Last week, Hugging Face detected an “intrusion” into part of its production infrastructure that was driven “end to end” by an autonomous AI agent system. While Hugging Face staff were working hard to determine what partner and customer data was...

Psychology says the reason retired men sit in silence isn’t because they have nothing to say — it’s because they’ve lost the only identity...

There is a familiar scene in families after retirement. A man who once spoke fluently about deadlines, machinery, customers, colleagues or problems to solve now sits through long stretches without offering much. People around him may decide he is...
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News Wrap: French firefighters battle massive wildfire

In our news wrap Monday, firefighters in southwest France are battling a wildfire that's forced more than 200,000 people...
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