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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 evoluti

Show Notes

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.

What is Mind the Gap?

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 .