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Grant Achatz, a chef on the cutting-edge of molecular gastronomy, combines a gin and tonic with bubble tea. He mixes together two of my favorite summer drinks.
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Wells Tower spent a week working at an Amsterdam coffee shop then wrote about it for GQ. “‘Paranoia’ doesn’t adequately get at what I suffer while I’m high. It’s more like Ebola of the superego, a self-loathing catatonia of uncertainty and dread. When I’m stoned, Homo sapiens and its customs become terrifying and obscure. Shortly [...]
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David Winner on how the Dutch are playing German football and the Germans are playing Dutch football. “The current tournament is making the Dutch both happy and troubled. They are euphoric that Oranje is winning, but uncomfortable about the “ugly” fotball and loss of attacking elan. Meanwhile, seeing the once-hated Germans is getting Dutch fans [...]
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“This is a story of two great cities emerging from isolation – and of western Europe beating the world – thanks partly to a train.” Simon Kuper on how the Eurostar is transforming both Paris and London.
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Farhad Manjoo on what makes Apple great. “When Martin Lindstrom, a brand consultant and author of Buyology: The Truth and Lies About Why We Buy, examined [the brains of Apple fans] under a functional magnetic-resonance-imaging scanner, he discovered that Apple devotees are indistinguishable from those committed to Jesus.”
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Wonderful write-up in the Times of the US’s victory over Algeria in the World Cup: “Now it was the old pro football drill of everybody go long. How American was that? Only instead of Joe Montana sending everybody deep, it was Howard, the American keeper who plays in England, half-Hungarian, half-African-American… After a few wide-open [...]
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In the Netherlands, promising soccer prodigies as young as seven join soccer academies sponsored by the country’s top clubs, such as the Amsterdam Ajax. After ten years of training, the best players are sold to premier teams across Europe. Teams in the United States are beginning to experiment with this method, hoping to replicate its [...]
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Apparently the entire music industry is going to collapse in the next few months. At least, that’s what Thom Yorke thinks.
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The Atlantic on returning to the city where you studied abroad.
“Semesters abroad are fleeting. Its participants depart with sadness, affection for their adopted city, and a sincere intention to one day return. Slowly that fades; we reinvest ourselves in college; we graduate, find jobs, embark on careers, get promotions, marry–or at least begin to [...]
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