Binging with Babish: Curb Your Enthusiasm Special
AdultsCreativityFoodEntertainmentLarry 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.
Why we really really really like repetition in music
AdultsData ScienceMusicSoftware Engineering...It slays all day.
How To Open Coconuts Without Any Tools
AdultsCreativityFoodHow-to...If 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
AdultsCreativityFoodHow-toThe 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
AdultsArtBooksCreativity...You 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.
How to solve problems like a designer
AdultsCreativityDesignVisual Design...The design process for problem-solving, in 4 steps.
What's the definition of comedy? Banana. - Addison Anderson
AdultsCreativityHumorPsychology...What 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.
Situational irony: The opposite of what you think - Christopher Warner
AdultsCreativityHumorMedia...Leaps 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
AdultsCreativityHumorLanguageAt 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
AdultsCreativityMusicCultureComposer Steve Hackman is creating mash-ups, like Drake & Tchaikovsky or Radiohead & Brahms, so more people will learn to love classical music.
What makes a poem ... a poem? - Melissa Kovacs
AdultsArtCreativityLanguageWhat exactly makes a poem ... a poem? Poets themselves have struggled with this question, often using metaphors to approximate a definition. Is a poem a little machine? A firework? An echo? A dream? Melissa Kovacs shares three recognizable characteristics of most poetry.
The story of Replika, the AI app that becomes you
AdultsArtificial IntelligenceCreativitySoftware Engineering...Replika is a chatbot that creates a digital representation of you. It's strange and fascinating -- but the story behind it is even better.
Binging with Babish: Szechuan Sauce Revisited (From Real Sample!)
AdultsCreativityFoodEntertainmentLast 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
AdultsCreativityFoodScienceThere'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
AdultsCreativityFoodEntertainmentRodney 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.
How a Haitian village cooks with sunlight
AdultsCreativityFoodTechnology...This sustainable initiative is helping to save Haiti's forests.
Binging with Babish: The Ultimeatum from Regular Show
AdultsCreativityFoodEntertainmentRegular Show regularly shows some fantastical and impossible food items - sandwiches that kill you, wings that kill you, skydiving pizza pockets - but few are quite so worthy of recreation as the Ultimeatum, the burger-within-a-burger-between-two-burgers. And ketchup from the Himalayas. Follow along this week to see if we can beat Chef Ajay Maldonaldo at his own game.