Georgina Torbet

3 weeks ago | themanual.com | Georgina Torbet

If you’ve been following food and drink trends, you’ll certainly have come across the term “swicy.” The combination of sweet and spicy is everywhere this year, including in cocktails, where drinks like the spicy mango margarita have been taking the internet by storm. Cocktail expert Patrick Pistolesi of NIO Cocktails is here to guide you through this trend, sharing his tips on adding mango and Mexican sauce chamoy to a classic Margarita to create a Mangonada.

3 weeks ago | themanual.com | Georgina Torbet

New York is getting a spritz-themed takeover, as aperitivo brand Campari is setting up a Campari Spritz Square in downtown NYC. The weekend of June 14 and 15, the 171 E. Broadway hub within Chinatown and the Lower East Side will host a weekend dedicated to all things Campari Spritz, including art and jewelry displays, a live DJ, and of course food and music.

3 weeks ago | themanual.com | Georgina Torbet

The spritz is an iconic summer drink, but my very favorite type of spritz isn’t made with Aperol — instead, it uses Lillet. If you haven’t tried Lillet before, it’s a little like vermouth, but with a hefty bitter edge from quinine that I love. If you enjoy the bitter and refreshing edge of tonic water, then I reckon you’d love Lillet Blanc too.

3 weeks ago | slashgear.com | Georgina Torbet

Cloudy with a chance of rain? That's not only the forecast on Earth but in some other locations in our Solar System too. Recently, researchers, using data from the James Webb Space Telescope, have been investigating the weather on Saturn's moon Titan, and they've found some bizarre weather phenomena that are quite different to what we see on our planet.

3 weeks ago | digitaltrends.com | Georgina Torbet

Later today, a Japanese company will be attempting a feat which few have achieved successfully: it will try to gently touch down its Resilience lander on the moon’s surface as part of its Hakuto-R Mission 2. Given that humans landed on the moon over 50 years ago, you might assume that moon landings today are easy, but you’d be wrong — as plenty of recent history shows. ispace’s previous mission, Hakuto-R Mission 1, was launched in December 2022 but failed its lunar landing in April 2023.