The Joys of Childhood

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From Turkish Don Dorma to Syrian Uza, some iteration of the dessert is made and loved everywhere. Hagen does was among the first ice cream companies to market the product to adults. People might come for the branched and pickle ice cream, but they stay for the cocoa pops.

After no party won a majority, forming a government may take weeks—or another election. But predictions that Vox, a far-right party, might enter government failed to materialise. Russia’s navy is repainting its vessels in a bid to frustrate munitions powered by artificial intelligence (10:03). And why the push to invent outlandish ice-cream flavours such as ketchup is deeply misguided (17:59).

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