Benjamin Errett
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Toronto, ON, Canada
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5 Universal Elements That Help to Define 'Taste' Now
How is 'taste' defined in 2017? Benjamin Errett, author of Elements of Taste, helps to break down the meaning of taste into five universal categories. → Read More
How the Crushed Smurf slushie — a sweet drink that was culturally sour — conquered Quebec
We clearly need a new guide to this expanding cultural universe. So I looked to the categories we use to describe that other taste, what goes in our mouths → Read More
Suit yourself: It's pleats vs. sleek as three sartorial savants defend their preferred cut
Terence Corcoran has had it up to here with modern menswear. He shares his grievances with JJ Lee and Benjamin Errett → Read More
The Week in Wit: The myth of spontaneity
There’s no such thing as spontaneity. Nothing just happens out of nowhere. Everything is, to some degree, planned. Most victims of spontaneous combustion had a matchbook in their pants pocket the... → Read More
The Week in Wit: Use the other 90% of your brain to read this
The 10% idea is like the Six-Minute Abs of neuroscience: We know it won’t work but long to live in a world where it does, where the games on Lumosity will finally let us rig the stock market and... → Read More
The Week in Wit: How not to be alone
Would you rather quietly contemplate your thoughts or experience a painful electric shock? → Read More
The Week in Wit: Yuan liners (or: Asian audiences and subtle jokes)
With all due respect to one of the men who sang 'I Like Chinese,' his two-minute sequence in Die Another Day was not his best work → Read More
The Week in Wit: 'Good luck with life' and other utterly useless advice given to modern graduates
If you’ve been invited to give a commencement speech, don’t. Just collect your honorary doctorate and say you have laryngitis → Read More
Lost for Words, by Edward St. Aubyn: Review
How do you follow up a masterpiece? → Read More