Noted on Facebook: ’Max’s first swim’
Turns out Mark Zuckerberg uses Facebook like every other parent
Society
An alcoholic therapist’s search for an evidence-based treatment
Alcoholism nearly killed therapist Michael Pond. Now, he’s looking for answers on why substance-abuse treatment can be so hard to find.
A new, and dangerous, kind of distracted driver
They hog lanes, ignore emergency vehicles, and treat their cars like multi-tasking way stations. That culture of entitlement makes drivers a new kind of menace.
First Snow: Syrian refugees tobaggan for the first time
Syrian refugees tobaggan for the first time. Read Michael Friscolanti’s longread that followed a Syrian family—categorized as BVOR 417—from Lebanon to Peterborough, Ont.
’Have we met?’: Sperm whales can talk, and even have dialects
From 2016: Research reveals an unprecedented view into the social lives of these ocean mammals, who can use ’vocal clans’ to distinguish themselves
The real reason behind the great Cauliflower Panic of 2016
The crisis in the cauliflower economy was never about taste: it’s a signal of something much more significant
The blanket that hugs insomniacs to sleep
Suffering from a sleep disorder? Try this blanket on for size.
What it’s really like to be an attorney on ’Making a Murderer’
Flare’s advice column for professional women profiles Laura Nirider, a defence attorney for Brendan Dassey on ’Making A Murderer’
Dean Jason Stewart Smith, 1992-2015
His father instilled in him the importance of being safe. When he had a child of his own, he became the world’s safest dad.
Smoke-free? The new lung cancer doesn’t care.
Research shows ‘never-smokers’ with lung cancer have a different disease—and treatment options