Kids Try 100 Years of Seafood | Bon Appetit
Adults Food History CultureIn this episode of "Kids Try", the kids try 100 years of seafood. Let's see how the kids react to oysters rockefeller, lobster roll, crab cakes, Manhattan clam chowder, tuna casserole, molded salmon mousse, crab rangoon, clam dip, jambalaya, McDonald's Filet-o-Fish, popcorn shrimp, California roll sushi, blackened redfish, scallops, tropical shrimp salad, fried calamari, Stargazy pie, baja fish taco, poke bowl, and sushi burrito.
How to Make Kombu Cured Salmon | From the Test Kitchen | Bon Appetit
Adults Creativity Food How-toSenior Editor Chris Morocco shows us how to cure salmon with kombu, and then serves it up with a fresh yuzu kosho.
Engineers Love to Break Airplanes Before You Fly in Them, Here's Why
Adults Technology Transportation Travel EngineeringAirplane technology has come a long way, but it has limits. Lucky for us, there are teams of people whose job it is to find those limits.
How aspirin was discovered - Krishna Sudhir
Adults History Science4000 years ago, the ancient Sumerians made a surprising discovery: if they scraped the bark off a particular kind of tree and ate it, their pain disappeared. Little did they know that what they'd found was destined to influence the future course of medicine. Krishna Sudhir traces the history of aspirin.
An Asteroid Didn't Kill the Dinosaurs, Here's a New Theory About What Did
Adults Animals Global Warming History ScienceA new scientific model has discovered what actually happened to the earth after the asteroid impact that killed the dinosaurs.
What Are The Chances You'll Die In A Plane Crash?
Adults Life Transportation Travel SciencePlanes are incredibly safe, so these are the reasons you shouldn't worry next time you fly.
The Importance of Vulnerability
Adults Psychology Relationships Self Mental HealthWe often imagine that what will win us friends and esteem is strength. But surprisingly, it's vulnerability that's at the core of friendship and likeability. This is an invitation to make friends with one's own weaknesses.
How To Open Coconuts Without Any Tools
Adults Creativity Food How-to SurvivalIf 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.
Why do we harvest horseshoe crab blood? - Elizabeth Cox
Adults Animals Nature Science Biology EnvironmentDuring the warmer months, especially at night during the full moon, horseshoe crabs emerge from the sea to spawn. Waiting for them are teams of lab workers, who capture the horseshoe crabs by the hundreds of thousands, take them to labs, harvest their cerulean blood, then return them to the sea. Why? Elizabeth Cox illuminates the incredible properties of horseshoe crab blood.
Do You Really Have Two Brains?
Adults Biology Human Neuroscience Science PsychologyAre you a left-brained person or a right-brained person? Spoiler: You're neither. Each of us uses both sides of our brain for most of what we do. But still, there are a number of brain functions that do show lateralization, where they are localized to one side or another. Why is this? And how does it influence our definition of consciousness? People with "split brains" can help us figure it out.
I Talked Behind My Best Friend's Back
Adults Relationships Society FriendshipWhen Shannon first got to her new school in third grade, she was on her own, lonely, and the other kids seemed to think she was weird - until, finally, she met a great group of girls - five of them - and they all became the best of friends.
How to Make Life-Changingly Good Cream Puffs | From the Test Kitchen
Adults Creativity Food How-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
Adults Art Books Creativity Writing EducationYou 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.