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Mind the Gap: The Robot That Folds Your Fitted Sheet
[curious] Somewhere in California this fall, a four-foot-tall robot named Memo is going to roll into a stranger's living room... scan a pile of laundry it has never seen — hoodies, balled-up socks, that one dress shirt with the weird snaps — and just... start folding. [amused] Hold on. A fitted sheet? Because if it can fold a fitted sheet, that's not AI — that's sorcery....
In today's episode, Alex and Maya explore how Toronto's economy, AI's rapid evolution, and behavioural science intersect — and what it all means for how we live and work.
Takeaway: [enthusiastic] Go fold something impossible today.
New episodes drop every weekday morning.
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Mind the Gap: The Brain Chip That Actually Ships
[curious] So picture this — a hospital in China, a patient who hasn't moved their hand in months. Surgeons slide a tiny device called NEO onto the surface of their brain. And then... the patient thinks about closing a fist. [quiet, amazed] And a metal glove across the room... closes....
In today's episode, Alex and Maya explore how Toronto's economy, AI's rapid evolution, and behavioural science intersect — and what it all means for how we live and work.
Takeaway: [amused] Rectify that name with a cold drink in hand. See you Monday.
New episodes drop every weekday morning.
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Mind the Gap: Two Fires Nobody Saw Coming
[urgent] Picture this — you're a CN Rail worker near Armstrong, Ontario. It's Tuesday. Your train is stopped. And through the windows... actual flames. Fire on both sides of the track. [serious] Video from the scene shows workers trapped inside as a wildfire closes in. CN suspends operations and evacuates everyone — but for a few minutes there, the only thing between those workers and a wall of fi...
In today's episode, Alex and Maya explore how Toronto's economy, AI's rapid evolution, and behavioural science intersect — and what it all means for how we live and work.
Takeaway: [enthusiastic] See you tomorrow morning.
New episodes drop every weekday morning.
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Mind the Gap: Bay Street's Billion-Dollar AI Panic
[serious] It's forty degrees on Bay Street this morning. The pavement's practically soft, GO trains are crawling — the Hamilton Spectator warned commuters could be, quote, 'derailed by extreme heat conditions' — and somewhere in one of those glass towers, a compliance officer at a Big Five bank just opened an email from Canada's top banking regulator. [curious] The subject line? A name they hadn't...
In today's episode, Alex and Maya explore how Toronto's economy, AI's rapid evolution, and behavioural science intersect — and what it all means for how we live and work.
Takeaway: [laughing] Hydrate and observe. That's the whole show.
New episodes drop every weekday morning.
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Mind the Gap: Tree Goop Could Power Your Next Battery
[curious] Picture this — a pulp and paper mill in Thunder Bay, Ontario. The kind of place that smells like wet wood and diesel. For decades, they've been making one thing: paper. But last week, someone in that mill looked at a vat of crude tall oil — basically tree sap leftovers — and thought... what if this gunk could help us refine lithium? [amused] Tree goop. Lithium batteries. The thing poweri...
In today's episode, Alex and Maya explore how Toronto's economy, AI's rapid evolution, and behavioural science intersect — and what it all means for how we live and work.
Takeaway: [playful] Go build something wobbly and love it.
New episodes drop every weekday morning.
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Mind the Gap: America Can't Make a Board Game
[amused] So there's a guy named Jonathan Silva who imports Monopoly board games. And after tariffs hit, he thought — OK, fine, I'll just make them in America. How hard can it be? [curious] Let me guess. Very hard?...
In today's episode, Alex and Maya explore how Toronto's economy, AI's rapid evolution, and behavioural science intersect — and what it all means for how we live and work.
Takeaway: [laughing] Mind the Gap. See you tomorrow.
New episodes drop every weekday morning.
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Mind the Gap: The City That Rearranged The Furniture
[curious] So picture this. It's Thursday afternoon on King Street, middle of the World Cup, and a CBC reporter pulls up the city's traffic data expecting gridlock... and finds the opposite. [surprised] Fewer cars. More bikes. More people on transit. And nobody forced them....
In today's episode, Alex and Maya explore how Toronto's economy, AI's rapid evolution, and behavioural science intersect — and what it all means for how we live and work.
Takeaway: [warm] This has been Mind the Gap. We're back tomorrow with fresh stories. Have a beautiful Sunday, everyone.
New episodes drop every weekday morning.
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Mind the Gap: The Car That Called The Cops
[excited] Two fifteen-year-olds, back seat of a car. No driver. They're allegedly drinking, shooting toy guns out the window. And the car — the car itself — calls the cops. [surprised] Hold on — the car snitched?...
In today's episode, Alex and Maya explore how Toronto's economy, AI's rapid evolution, and behavioural science intersect — and what it all means for how we live and work.
Takeaway: [amused] Right, because conventional floating solar works beau
New episodes drop every weekday morning.
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Mind the Gap: Adobe Said Chug AI, Then Said Stop
[amused] Picture this. You're a product designer at Adobe. For two years, every all-hands, every Slack channel, every performance review has pounded the same drum — adopt AI, integrate AI, live and breathe AI. [playful] Let me guess — she finally drank the Kool-Aid....
In today's episode, Alex and Maya explore how Toronto's economy, AI's rapid evolution, and behavioural science intersect — and what it all means for how we live and work.
Takeaway: [warm] See you Monday.
New episodes drop every weekday morning.
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Mind the Gap: Four Places Draw The Line At Once
[reflective] Right now — this morning — nearly six hundred people in Toronto shelters are folding blankets, zipping bags, and hugging the volunteers who became family over the past twelve days. [warm] They're from Kasabonika Lake First Nation — an Oji-Cree community so remote you can only reach it by air. Wildfire pushed them out on June twenty-seventh. Today... they finally go home....
In today's episode, Alex and Maya explore how Toronto's economy, AI's rapid evolution, and behavioural science intersect — and what it all means for how we live and work.
Takeaway: [laughing] Past lunch is a great start. See you tomorrow!
New episodes drop every weekday morning.
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Mind the Gap: Who Gets To Say Stop
[reflective] Right now — this morning — nearly six hundred people in Toronto shelters are folding blankets, zipping bags, and hugging the volunteers who became family over the past twelve days. [warm] They're from Kasabonika Lake First Nation — an Oji-Cree community so remote you can only reach it by air. Wildfire pushed them out on June twenty-seventh. Today... they finally go home....
In today's episode, Alex and Maya explore how Toronto's economy, AI's rapid evolution, and behavioural science intersect — and what it all means for how we live and work.
Takeaway: [laughing] Past lunch is a great start. See you tomorrow!
New episodes drop every weekday morning.
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Mind the Gap: The Machine That Discovers and Deceives
[curious] So picture this — a physicist feeds a machine-learning model millions of possible atomic structures, and the model spits back two compounds no human had ever tested. They synthesize them... and both superconduct. [excited] Not at minus two hundred and seventy degrees. Not in some exotic lab vacuum. At temperatures that are, quote, 'significantly closer to ambient conditions than anyone e...
In today's episode, Alex and Maya explore how Toronto's economy, AI's rapid evolution, and behavioural science intersect — and what it all means for how we live and work.
Takeaway: [warm] And I'm Maya. Go discover something today.
New episodes drop every weekday morning.
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Mind the Gap: The Fed Chair Who Broke the Crystal Ball
[thoughtful] Last week — a terrace overlooking the Atlantic in Sintra, Portugal. A room packed with the world's most powerful central bankers. And a man steps to the podium for his very first major public appearance as Fed Chair... and tells them the crystal ball is broken. [curious] Not cracked. Not cloudy. Broken. As in — we are done pretending we can see what comes next....
In today's episode, Alex and Maya explore how Toronto's economy, AI's rapid evolution, and behavioural science intersect — and what it all means for how we live and work.
Takeaway: [laughing] On that note — have a beautiful Tuesday, everybody.
New episodes drop every weekday morning.
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Mind the Gap: The Nachos That Defeated A Condo Tower
[excited] Picture this — it's a Friday night on College Street in Toronto. The neon above Sneaky Dee's is buzzing, the nachos are piled high, and a local punk band is sound-checking upstairs. Now imagine being told all of that is about to become a condo tower. [warm] And then — imagine getting the call that says... never mind. The demolition isn't happening. The venue lives....
In today's episode, Alex and Maya explore how Toronto's economy, AI's rapid evolution, and behavioural science intersect — and what it all means for how we live and work.
Takeaway: [warm] And I'm Maya. Go preserve something beautiful today.
New episodes drop every weekday morning.
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Mind the Gap: The Bee That Outsmarted The Scientists
[curious] Picture this. A bumble bee — fuzzy, brain smaller than a sesame seed — walks up to a puzzle box in a lab in Finland. Two steps required to reach the sugar reward. Researchers are watching, clipboards ready. [amused] And the bee just... skips step one entirely. Invents a shortcut nobody programmed, nobody demonstrated. The researchers are stunned....
In today's episode, Alex and Maya explore how Toronto's economy, AI's rapid evolution, and behavioural science intersect — and what it all means for how we live and work.
Takeaway: [playful] This has been Mind the Gap. We'll see you tomorrow morning.
New episodes drop every weekday morning.
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Mind the Gap: The Bee That Hacked Intelligence
[curious] Picture this — a lab in England, fluorescent lights buzzing. A researcher places a bumble bee in front of a tiny puzzle box. The reward — sugar water — is locked behind a two-step mechanism no bee has ever seen before. [amused] And the bee just... figures it out? No training? No YouTube tutorial?...
In today's episode, Alex and Maya explore how Toronto's economy, AI's rapid evolution, and behavioural science intersect — and what it all means for how we live and work.
Takeaway: [enthusiastic] This has been Mind the Gap. See you Monday.
New episodes drop every weekday morning.
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Mind the Gap: The Phone That Broke The Birth Rate
[curious] So picture this — a demographer at the University of Houston is staring at a chart of American birth rates. She's seen the usual suspects, right? Housing costs, student debt, cultural shifts. But then she draws a vertical line at 2008... and everything clicks. [surprised] The year after the iPhone launched....
In today's episode, Alex and Maya explore how Toronto's economy, AI's rapid evolution, and behavioural science intersect — and what it all means for how we live and work.
Takeaway: [playful] Mind the Gap. We'll see you Monday.
New episodes drop every weekday morning.
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Mind the Gap: Billions To Make Workers Disappear
[curious] Two point seven billion dollars. That's how much Amazon set aside last year — not to build something, not to launch something — but to pay people to leave. [surprised] And they weren't alone. Intel, Oracle — collectively, Big Tech spent billions just on severance packages. Billions. To not employ people....
In today's episode, Alex and Maya explore how Toronto's economy, AI's rapid evolution, and behavioural science intersect — and what it all means for how we live and work.
Takeaway: [enthusiastic] Mind the Gap. We'll see you tomorrow.
New episodes drop every weekday morning.
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Mind the Gap: Price Tags on Air, Water, and Future
[curious] Somewhere in the Imperial Valley right now — one of the hottest, driest stretches of California — alfalfa fields are drinking Colorado River water the same way they have for decades. But last week, the developer of what would be the largest AI data center in the state filed a lawsuit to take that water for itself. [surprised] Wait — an AI company is literally suing a river for a drink?...
In today's episode, Alex and Maya explore how Toronto's economy, AI's rapid evolution, and behavioural science intersect — and what it all means for how we live and work.
Takeaway: [warm] See you tomorrow.
New episodes drop every weekday morning.
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Mind the Gap: Your Brain Won't Shut Up Under Anesthesia
[curious] Picture this. A patient is lying on an operating table in a university hospital. Completely unconscious. General anesthesia. Lights out. Except... their brain is still listening. [surprised] Not just listening — processing. Researchers found the unconscious brain could distinguish between real sentences, grammatical nonsense, and complete gibberish. While the person was fully under....
In today's episode, Alex and Maya explore how Toronto's economy, AI's rapid evolution, and behavioural science intersect — and what it all means for how we live and work.
Takeaway: [laughing] Happy threshold day. Mind the gap.
New episodes drop every weekday morning.
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