There are few darkrooms, and drawing by hand is increasingly rare. So do we still practice "craft" in this digital era?

Author Heidi Tworek says we can learn from media manipulation's long history to understand how disinformation functions now.

Failure is having a moment in the tech industry. What can that teach us about our limitations and how we measure success?

One of the original uses of networking tech were attempts at racial profiling and predictive policing, author Charlton McIlwain says.

In her book, "You Look Like a Thing and I Love You," Janelle Shane poses the pitfalls of AI dependence

Put some cozy socks on, set your phone notifications on silent, and kick back, as we revisit conversations with people who've dedicated their research to helping us rest, recharge and return to nature.

With phone scams on the rise and a plethora of streaming services flooding the market, how well are we prepared for the 2020s? Spark host Nora Young talks to CRTC Chairperson and CEO Ian Scott.

This week on Spark, we speak with Martin Rees, the U.K.’s astronomer royal and author of On The Future: Prospects for Humanity, about the challenges humanity will face in the future, and how we might harness technology to tackle them.

Online tools for divorce and co-parenting aim to keep the process amicable and inexpensive. These digital resources are part of a broader move to open up divorce to less adversarial conflict resolution methods like mediation, coaching and collaborative law.

Season-conscious mindset and urban design can help us embrace winter instead of avoiding it.

Employees at Wildbit have been working remotely for 20 years. Natalie Nagele, the software company's CEO and co-founder, shared some of the keys to remote working success for those who are just starting out.

A technology expert says he is impressed at how well Canada’s internet is holding up given the massive data-load its infrastructure is under amid the COVID-19 pandemic. 

In her new book, The Alchemy of Us: How Humans and Matter Transformed One Another, materials scientist and author Ainissa Ramirez chronicles eight life-changing inventions, and the inventors behind them.

Today on q: actor Patrick Stewart, Broadway actor Chad Kimball, Death Cab For Cutie frontman Ben Gibbard, The Ringer's Alyssa Bereznak.

Today on q: singer-songwriter Rufus Wainwright, visual artist Liza Lou, drag queen Brooke Lynn Hytes, singer-songwriter Basia Bulat, visual artist John Hartman.

Today on q: Studio K's Gary the Unicorn and puppeteer Jason Hopley, author and mindfulness instructor Tamara Levitt, filmmaker Mostafa Keshvari, actor Nicholas Braun.

Today on q: actor and director Paul Feig, actress Maitreyi Ramakrishnan, chef and television personality Matty Matheson, an oral history of the Beatles' Hey Jude.

Today on q: author Saleema Nawaz, director Richard J. Lewis, Ed Robertson of the Barenaked Ladies, medical illustrator Alissa Eckert.

Plane stranded on Shabbat in Halifax and community comes to the rescue, Alberta man has talent calming babies in distress/fosters 88 babies over time, Winnipeg theatre company workshop for aspiring drag queens and St. John police officer deals with a rogue seal

Skiing with your dog, how the albatross is helping detect illegal activity on the high seas and a video of opening a bale of hay goes viral.

Quebec bonspiel organizers and concerns about future of curling, Kelowna B.C. memorializing homeless and Ashleigh McIvor on her 2010 gold medal memories

Winnipeg woman celebrates her fortieth birthday with forty acts of kindness,Shane Koyczan at 2010 Olympics,details on bison re-introduction program and Periodic Table of Black Cdn History in Ottawa

Quebec couple talk about falling in love when they speak different languages, Me of the deeps perform at Cape Breton high school basketball tourney and renewed campaign to make motorists stop for school buses after death of five year old twenty years ago.

Edmonton father and son describes how son is recovering from vicious random attack, Grade three car lover goes to Auto Show, Sudbury teen pursues acting career and overcomes bullying and Orleans Ontario teen wins 100K Loran prize.

Thunder Bay psychologist and the healing power of forest therapy walks, Torbay Nfld boy gets bravery award for saving a classmate's life, London Ontario cabbie of twenty years talks about what he enjoys and what irks him and remembering 97 year old Sara Sexton of Newfoundland who died last month.

Kamloops family three generations in rock blasting business, man with stage four melanoma does fund raising run across Lake Winnipeg and Ontario Mobile Crisis Response team might lose funding.

St. John's history of pandemics, Calgary kids paint self portraits on utility box near school and Montreal conversation with family whose father/husband works in south Korea.

Quebec City store gives away leftover perishables, Lakehead University program helps teachers understand indigenous tradition of wild rice harvest and Bob Keating from CBC Nelson drops by seniors home with some groceries

Is water at the foot of Niagara Falls warmer than at the top? Are bioplastics better for the environment? Why are dinosaurs so big? And more

Scurvy in modern Canada, snake venom sans snakes and hot food tolerance

Splicing damaged nerves, getting astronauts to Mars healthy and sane and smoke on glaciers

Fisheries science with indigenous perspective, slippery surface and seasons on other planets

Jewel beetles iridescent camouflage, better talk on climate change and flying west

Does cloud seeding work, and listening to the sounds of the Arctic Ocean

Sometimes, small brands manage to outsmart their giant counterparts. And this tiny soda brand has done it for over a century. Goliath, meet David.

Sports teams can’t always count on winning games. That means marketing becomes the other player on the roster. A lesson the Toronto Raptors took straight to the bank.

Before coming up with the dangling dollar bill, the grunge band had a few other ideas.

The Emmy Award-winning television series Breaking Bad put Albuquerque on the map. But for less-than-desirable reasons.

Companies often change valuable brand names when expanding to other countries. Sometimes the reason is a language issue. But other times, the reasons are far more interesting.

The world of business is all about growth. To stimulate growth, companies have to win new customers by taking a chance and thinking outside the box. Or the bucket.

From big beer and tobacco companies, to the war effort, to Hollywood, to the smallest mom and pop businesses, matchbook advertising was effective and affordable for everyone. And believe it or not, even the U.S. State Department used matchbook advertising recently to hunt down Osama bin Laden.

ASMR, or Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response, is a new phenomenon being embraced by brands everywhere, in an attempt to tingle your senses and open your wallet.

This week on The House, two Conservatives join us to talk about what's next for the party now that Andrew Scheer has resigned. Bloc MP Stephane Bergeron lays out his party's demands to work co-operatively with the Liberals. Finally, the parents of a soldier who died in Afghanistan talk about media reports saying that the war was a failure.

Thirty years after she was wounded during the clash between soldiers and Mohawk activists at Oka, Que., ex-Olympian Waneek Horn-Miller reflects on how the country has changed — and how the rail blockade crisis could end badly.

Assembly of First Nations National Chief Perry Bellegarde sits down with CBC's The House to talk about protests, blockades and how to save the Indigenous reconciliation project.

Some provinces will begin reopening their economies next week, a move one public health expert described as a delicate experiment — because so little is known about how many people are immune, or how long any immunity to the COVID-19 virus might last.

This week: We hear from the spokesperson for secret pilot project that’s been housing Nova Scotia inmates in unused condominiums, we talk with the CBC Radio One historian, and we travel to Saskatoon to meet the paramedics behind the silly siren. Plus, we make a very serious announcement.

We find out about a new law that requires Canadian characters in Hollywood films, we meet the creator of the cargo short, and we travel to Canada’s worst national park to see its final days.

We hear from a group pushing for kids as young as ten to be able to get tattoos, we have a visit from the Pedestrian-Driver-Cyclist Alliance, and Pat Kelly tells us why the ponytail rescue documentary is his favourite.

We hear from the person building an adult-themed, nude water park in Lake Louise, we talk with a stuffy old man who has listened to every episode of the show, and we travel to Cape Breton to meet a group of youths breaking all the rules of quilting.