Q. Trick or Treat 🎃 Halloween is well on its way. Which characters are you likely to see wandering the streets, or bag-out at your door? . A. Here, first, is Google Trends’ look at most searched costumes by year: • 2015: Evie from Descandants • 2016: Harambe • 2017: Uma

Q. Human loud is plenty loud.  The Guinness World Book of Records names Jill Drake – a classroom assistant – as possessor of the loudest scream at 129 decibels. But, which animals are the loudest overall? . A. The International Fund for Animal Welfare – a global non-profit – has

Q. The crisp of the season is in the air. And here in Vancouver, the crisp comes with a hearty splash of rain. What do you like best about Fall? How do your likes stack up against the list below? . A. One Poll asked 2,000 adults for the things

Happy, happy dance! We are thrilled to have been awarded a 2025 W3 award for the Just Curious website. The Academy of Interactive and Visual Arts notes that they received ‘thousands’ of entries, and ‘to uphold a high standard of excellence, a category may have multiple winners, or may have

Q. Anyone who hears the full-throttle neighbourhood cheers after a big Canadian hockey win knows that at least one sport captures our hearts. What does sports fandom look like across Canada? . A. The Strategic Counsel reported out on their March 2025 sports survey. Their research results were based on

Q. Composers and musicians can well imagine certain ways in which their new songs might be used: peak party, first day of summer, first dance at a wedding, last call at a dive bar. Few, however, could predict the weird and wonderful ways their more popular tracks might be used

Q. We are spoilt for choice. With an endless stream of viewing options, some of us just freeze and revert to watching our favourite movies again and again. When in doubt, don’t? Which movies are garnering the most views? Which new movies capture our tilt-a-whirl attention spans from the start?

Q. Ouch. They’ve ticked the ‘decline with regret’ box on your wedding invitation. But why? They’ve known about the date for months. They’ve asked you all sorts of questions about wedding day details. They’ve even shown you some of their after-party wardrobe options. Yet, now it’s a ‘no can do’

Q. True friends are gold: there with time, action, and a keen ear when the going is tough. There with deep-bellied cheers when the going is uncommonly good. Which qualities do people treasure most in their friends? . A. In 2022, researchers Apostolou and Vesta reported out on 3 studies

Q. You go, crown cheetah. Speedy silver to you, pronghorn antelope. But, when the days get hot, relatability points to those creatures who move the slowest. To whom shall we raise a UPF 50+ hat? . A. These somewhat moving beings have got going slow down to a science. Petbook