“Crescendo!” Traverses the Intersection of Food and Music

Chefs talk about their passions, from smoked prawns and ROSALIA to biryani and Beyonce and beyond

A new podcast from Greg Bresnitz (one of the individuals behind the popular Snacky Tunes podcast), Crescendo! A Sonic Menu Podcast launches today with a mission to explore the intersection of food and music. Each week a guest—usually a chef, but also other culinary minds—takes listeners through a dream seven-course meal, each dish matched with a song. Through these discussions Bresnitz and his guests delve …

At a Distance: 100 Visionaries at Home in a Pandemic

Spencer Bailey and Andrew Zuckerman’s At a Distance podcast was born out of a desire for a more thoughtful, slowed-down approach to movement, bolstered by the pandemic. Their book (by Apartamento Publishing) comprises 100 of the interviews from the podcast in short narratives, capturing how visionaries and thinkers—including journalist Bill McKibben, psychiatrist Bessel van der Kolk, MoMA curator Paola Antonelli and many more—conceived of globally slowing …

Link About It: This Week’s Picks

Ancient artwork, life on Saturn's moon, AI innovations and more in our look around the internet

NASA Research Suggests Possible Life on Saturn’s Moon NASA has found large amounts of methane wafting within plumes from Saturn’s sixth-largest moon, Enceladus, suggesting that life may exist within its “subsurface sea.” This evidence was discovered thanks to the Cassini spacecraft, which also discovered dihydrogen and carbon dioxide molecules there. Scientists believe the methane is produced biologically, rather than through a geochemical process. Thus, Régis Ferrière, …