Google Pixel Buds review
Adults CreativityGoogle's Pixel Buds get a few of the basics right when it comes to wireless earbuds. Language translation via the Google Translate app is helpful in a pinch, and the Google Assistant experience is genuinely fast and fun. But these $159 earbuds are fussy, from the way that they fit in your ears to the way that they fit in the case. And not everyone will love the open design, which lets lots of outside noise in. The Pixel Buds are Google's first attempt at making wireless earbuds, and it shows.
Coconut Cream Pie with Four Kinds of Coconut | From the Test Kitchen | Bon Appetit
Adults CreativityNeed something really celebrate that coco-flake lover in your life? This coconut cream pie recipe is going to keep around for a while!
Binging with Babish: Curb Your Enthusiasm Special
Adults CreativityLarry David fluctuates wildly between flagrantly eschewing and rigorously enforcing cultural mores, all of which frequently revolve around food. Slow ice cream orderers, religiously forbidden chicken, caviar entitlement - they're all fodder for Larry's machinations of social upheaval. Just don't eat the man's shrimp.
How to Make Kombu Cured Salmon | From the Test Kitchen | Bon Appetit
Adults CreativitySenior Editor Chris Morocco shows us how to cure salmon with kombu, and then serves it up with a fresh yuzu kosho.
How To Open Coconuts Without Any Tools
Adults CreativityIf you're not a coconut cracking ninja from Samoa, then you'll need an easier way to bust coconuts for pleasure, or for survival. This is the easiest and most effective way I've found to do it, when you don't have any tools.
How to Make Life-Changingly Good Cream Puffs | From the Test Kitchen
Adults CreativityThe cream puff is the Eiffel Tower of Parisian pastries: iconic, beloved, and displayed everywhere. The recipe is so irrefutably timeless that even Pierre Herme, France's most famous (and endlessly innovative) pastry chef, still uses the formula he learned as a 14-year-old apprentice.
Three anti-social skills to improve your writing - Nadia Kalman
Adults CreativityYou need social skills to have a conversation in real life -- but they're quite different from the skills you need to write good dialogue. Educator Nadia Kalman suggests a few "anti-social skills," like eavesdropping and muttering to yourself, that can help you write an effective dialogue for your next story.
What's the definition of comedy? Banana. - Addison Anderson
Adults CreativityWhat makes us giggle and guffaw? The inability to define comedy is its very appeal; it is defined by its defiance of definition. Addison Anderson riffs on the philosophy of Henri Bergson and Aristotle to elucidate how a definition draws borders while comedy breaks them down.
In on a secret? That's dramatic irony - Christopher Warner
Adults CreativityYou're in a movie theater, watching the new horror flick. The audience knows something that the main character does not. The audience sees the character's actions are not in his best interest. What's that feeling -- the one that makes you want to shout at the screen? Christopher Warner identifies this storytelling device as dramatic irony.
Situational irony: The opposite of what you think - Christopher Warner
Adults CreativityLeaps and bounds separate that which is ironic and that which many people simply say is ironic. Christopher Warner wants to set the record straight: Something is ironic if and only if it is the exact opposite of what you would expect.
What is verbal irony? - Christopher Warner
Adults CreativityAt face value, the lines between verbal irony, sarcasm, and compliments can be blurry. After all, the phrase 'That looks nice' could be all three depending on the circumstances. In the final of a three part series on irony, Christopher Warner gets into the irony you may use most often and most casually: verbal irony.
This guy is mashing-up Drake and Tchaikovsky
Adults CreativityComposer Steve Hackman is creating mash-ups, like Drake & Tchaikovsky or Radiohead & Brahms, so more people will learn to love classical music.
The story of Replika, the AI app that becomes you
Adults CreativityReplika is a chatbot that creates a digital representation of you. It's strange and fascinating -- but the story behind it is even better.
Tiny Foods | Tiny Kitchen // 60 Second Docs
Adults CreativityPerformance artist and unlikely chef Tom Brown is bringing strangers together around the tiny kitchen, where he's serving up tiny foods and words of wisdom. Along with his fully functional portable kitchen, Tom has made more than 300 utensils and tools that he uses to cook up real, edible miniature foods. He may be passing out free lunches, but the gifts he gets from his customers are worth all the work.
Binging with Babish: Szechuan Sauce Revisited (From Real Sample!)
Adults CreativityLast round, my efforts to recreate the fabled McDonald's Szechuan Sauce were wild, flailing shots in the dark, pathetic and meager attempts to recreate a long-lost condiment out of scanty information and back-alley sources.
Chocolate's newest color
Adults CreativityThere's milk, dark, white, and now, ruby chocolate. It's made naturally from ruby cocoa beans and tastes sour.
Binging with Babish: Hors D'oeuvres Sandwich from Back to School
Adults CreativityRodney Dangerfield made a career on thumbing his nose at social mores, making sexual advances toward older women, and eating a giant sandwich made out of hors d'oeuvres.