As It Happens: The Thursday Edition
Part One
Alberta COVID modelling wrong
A doctor in Alberta is calling out the province for using bad data in its rush to reopen — a decision that has resulted in a surge of infections and deaths.
Swimming fossil found
A fossil found in Western Canada reveals an aquatic creature that ruled the ocean 500 million years ago — a prehistoric swimming nightmare whose entire body was a head.
Happiness free time study
A professor does a deep dive into the science of taking a break — and finds that having any more than 5 hours of free time can be detrimental to your happiness.
Part Two
Nurse training shortage
A flood of applications to nursing schools would seem like the antidote to a nursing shortage — but the director of the program at UBC says there aren't enough nurses to handle the training.
New planking record
Despite chronic pain, an Australian man manages to break the world record for longest plank ever recorded — after taking the position that it's an important position to take.
Part Three
El Salvador Bitcoin
El Salvador is giddy about adopting the cryptocurrency as its official currency-currency — and a banker tells us what that much-publicized announcement actually means for ordinary Salvadorans.
Colorado nurse vaccine chandelier
A nurse in Colorado has been administering injections for months now. She's also been saving the vials. And later in the show, she'll illuminate us as to why she decided to make a chandelier out of them.