Binging with Babish: Courtesan au Chocolat from Grand Budapest Hotel
Adults CreativityWes Anderson's films are rife with clashing color schemes, furrow-browed pedantry, and rich character development set against an oddly symmetrical backdrop. In the case of The Grand Budapest Hotel, it's also home to a pastry as precious as its parentage.
Best of Sideshow Collectibles at Comic-Con 2017
Adults CreativityVisiting Sideshow Collectiblers's massive booth at Comic-Con is always a treat, because the collectibles company puts stunning prototypes of figures and statues on display. We pick our favorite things at this year's booth, including a sixth-scale Hulkbuster and a life-size K-2SO from Star Wars!
The science behind the Impossible Burger
Adults CreativityThe Impossible Burger is meatless, but it tastes, smells, and bleeds like the real thing. The secret ingredient? Neuroscience.
The Clowns Helping Refugee Children To Laugh Through Play | Amazing Humans
Adults CreativityAsh and his team of clowns, musicians and dancers are 'play specialists' who work with children in refugee camps across Europe. The aim is to allow the kids "to feel good, feel daft, and feel playful".
Binging with Babish: Puerco Pibil from Once Upon a Time in Mexico
Adults CreativityOnce Upon a Time in Mexico, against all odds, played a large role in the creation of BwB - my first-ever DVD, its special features showed me that I could one day be a filmmaker *and* a chef. In this 2003 Banderas action-comedy, Johnny Depp inexplicably caps a cook for making this Yucatanian special a bit too perfectly; as director Robert Rodriguez says, make at your own peril.
MIT's self-folding origami technology
Adults CreativityMIT's self-folding origami technology that could change how we design everything from airbags to wearables.
The power of creative constraints - Brandon Rodriguez
Adults CreativityImagine you were asked to invent something new. It could be whatever you want, made from anything you choose, in any shape or size. That kind of creative freedom sounds so liberating, doesn't it? Or ... does it? if you're like most people you'd probably be paralyzed by this task. Why? Brandon Rodriguez explains how creative constraints actually help drive discovery and innovation.
Croque Madame: The Ultimate Breakfast Sandwich
Adults CreativitySpecial thanks to SCJ for shooting - the ultimate breakfast sandwich for hangovers, one-night-stands, or both. This video was made in response to a Reddit AMA question: What's your favorite breakfast sandwich?
100 Years of Family Dinners ? Mode.com
Adults CreativityFoodie fans, this one's for you! Whether you lean toward 1915-style roast beef and franconia potatoes, or if 2015's kale craze suits your taste, this look at food over the past century will satiate your palate.
Baymax from Big Hero 6 is real. Here's who created him.
Adults CreativityChris Atkeson, the creator of Big Hero 6's Baymax, wants to bring soft robots to the world.
The snakey, viney robot that can go almost anywhere
Adults CreativityResearchers at Stanford University developed a soft, squishy robot that "grows" like a vine and can squeeze through tight spaces. It can also lift heavy objects, which makes it potentially ideal for search-and-rescue operations.
Binging with Babish: Lemon Pepper Wet from Atlanta
Adults CreativityLemon Pepper Wet is an Atlantan institution, virtually unknown outside the Peach State until Donald Glover's groundbreaking series made us salivate without even showing us the pay dirt. Look behind the Pulp-Fiction-style glowing MacGuffin and see the saucy, zesty wings underneath with this week's episode. Shout out to J. Kenji Lopez-Alt for his groundbreaking oven wing technique.
The sound illusion that makes Dunkirk so intense
Adults CreativityWhy Christopher Nolan is obsessed with Shepard tones.
Art Aquarium: Hidetomo Kimura's fishy installation
Adults CreativityOne of Tokyo's most popular summer attractions features LED light displays, impressive glass sculptures, an immersive soundscape and, most importantly, thousands of sea creatures. Japanese artist Hidetomo Kimura's Art Aquarium combines the movements of about 5,000 goldfish with light shows, beautifully crafted fishbowls, and projection mapping.
LITERATURE - Goethe
Adults CreativityGoethe is one of the great minds of European civilisation, though his work is largely unknown outside of the German speaking countries. He deserves our renewed attention.
Can you find the next number in this sequence? - Alex Gendler
Adults Creativity1, 11, 21, 1211, 111221. These are the first five elements of a number sequence. Can you figure out what comes next? Alex Gendler reveals the answer and explains how beyond just being a neat puzzle, this type of sequence has practical applications as well.
The real secret to sushi isn't fish
Adults CreativityHere's how it rolled from rice paddies into your burrito.
Card Throwing Trick Shots | Dude Perfect
Adults CreativityIs card throwing the new water bottle flipping?
Vincent van Gogh's long, miserable road to fame
Adults CreativityVan Gogh's travels informed the works we revere today.
Binging with Babish: Game of Thrones
Adults CreativityThis weekend we're welcoming back the show that has the monopoly on lurid violence, epic battles, and wholly unnecessary nudity: Game of Thrones. George R.R. Martin's ability to describe the crunching of a skull is rivalled only by his ability to describe the crunching of a pastry, so it's only fitting that this sexy saga is home to some serious food porn. I'm a main character in this show, so my life is decidedly in danger this week.
LITERATURE - George Orwell
Adults CreativityGeorge Orwell is the most famous English language writer of the 20th century, the author of Animal Farm and 1984. What was he trying to tell us and what is his genius?