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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 explor

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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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Your daily Canadian pulse. Narrowing the gap between the world and your mind. A Macro economic look at the world and Canada for the Tech leaders and beyond .