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Intensely Flavorful Soups, at Noona Noodles

The other day, a friend taught me a word in Korean: 손맛, sonmat, which translates to “hand taste.” It identifies the ineffable quality...

Pickleball for All, in Central Park

Pickleball mania reaches a fever pitch with CityPickle, in Central Park’s Wollman Rink, where fourteen newly installed courts welcome amateurs and professionals alike....

The Diamond: The Cost of a Fortune

The discovery of a massive gemstone in the woods prompts Stefan to forge an unlikely friendship in Vedran Rupic’s absurdist short film. Source link...

New TV Shows Featuring Cannibalism

“Teammates”A plane crash strands a high-school girls’ soccer team in the woods. Too young to have learned how to cook, the teammates must...

The Open-World Genius of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom

In September of 1982, a young engineer named Thomas Zimmerman filed a patent for an optical-flex sensor mounted inside a glove. The mitt...

Floridians Demand to Know Where Disney Is Going so They Can Come With

FLORIDA (The Borowitz Report)—Shortly after the corporate giant cancelled plans for a new campus in Lake Nona, Florida, residents of the state demanded...

“Debt-Limit Terror” Is No Way to Run a Superpower

What can you say about a week in American politics when the major breakthrough was that the two parties agreed to stop talking...

The Lowdown on the Latest Special-Counsel Reports

It’s true that there’s no truth. Source link

The Birth of the Personal Computer

In 1979, two M.I.T. computer-science alumni and a Harvard Business School graduate launched a new piece of computer software for the Apple II...

Why Erdoğan Prevailed in a Battle of Competing Turkish Nationalisms

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who has led Turkey for two decades, first as Prime Minister, then as President, and who has steered the country...

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