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What Beer Was Like Before Hops

German beer purists would have you believe beer was divinely begotten from malt, water, hops, and nothing else. If it wasn’t divine, then it was at least bureaucratic, thanks to the Reinheitsgebot, a law that regulates beer production and has for more than 500 years. It’s a law so old…

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12 Life Lessons from ‘Seinfeld’

For a show that was mostly about stifling character growth and empathy, Seinfeld sure taught us a lot about being a better person. Almost every episode has some kind of lesson on how to improve your life, but it’s more on the audience to decipher the moral. It’s also probably…

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10 New Books to Read This Summer

Whether you read on a tablet, Kindle, or still prefer the smell of a freshly cracked paperback, finding your next book is never easy. You could never read all the new novels, biographies, or nonfiction tomes released each week, so we’re here to help. These are a handful of the…

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It’s Time to Start Making Cocktails With Scotch Again

Three Scotch Cocktails Invented by Great Bartenders A long time ago, a bunch of stuffy old men started making everyone feel bad for drinking “contaminated” scotch. Their scorn and guilt tripping turned scotch into the solemn, contemplative pursuit we know it as today. That kind of drinking is great if…

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Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup

People bought in very quickly to the rise of Silicon Valley. Once tech companies started to hit it big, venture capitalists were cutting each other’s throats and tripping over the corpses to try and find the next Apple, Google, Microsoft, or whatever else that side of the country could produce.…

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The 9 Most Exciting Games from this Year’s E3

This year’s E3 provided us with a good look at what the next year and a half or so of gaming is going to look like and overall, we’re optimistic. We’ve already started stashing away money so people don’t judge us for our spending habits. If people ask, we’ll say…

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The History of the Honda Monkey, the World’s Favorite Minibike

You are either completely in love with the Honda Z series or you have no idea what it is. For those in the latter category, here’s a quick intro (which will then be followed by a longer story about the origins of the bike). The Honda Z50 was a street-legal…

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The 25 Greatest Directors and Their Highest Rated Movies

There are a few comments we could make about every one of these directors, so we’ll reserve this space for those. Each director on this list is distinctly their own. If someone walked into any of these movies halfway through, they could tell you who made it and might even…

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‘Fallout 76’ Could Be the Game of the Year

The Fallout 76 teaser released shortly before E3 this year generated a lot of buzz, while the larger reveal had quite a few promising innovations in store for the series. As Todd Howard, the Game Director for every Fallout game so far (as well as Skyrim), talked about in Bethesda’s…

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The History of the Trench Lighter

The Western Front of the First World War was an unpleasant place, to say the very least. The chalky French soil would fall apart at the lightest rainfall, compromising trench integrity from the start. Belgian soil held water like a sponge, meaning you couldn’t dig without flooding everything with dark,…

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7 Game Burgers to Elevate Your Grilling this Barbecue Season

There’s a whole exciting world of burgers out there for you to explore, so consider expanding your palate next time you fire up the grill. We're not knocking the classic slider, but bison, elk, and others offer new taste experiences, ones we encourage you to try. Ready for something new?…

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The Cult of the Big Green Egg

For those of you who don’t know what the Big Green Egg is, here’s the quickest summary we can give you. It’s a kamado style ceramic grill that inspires ravenous loyalty in its users and it comes in one shape and color. Egg and green. Those who use it swear…

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The 8 Most Overrated Video Games We’ve Ever Played

Overrated can sound like a harsh word, so let’s clarify exactly what we mean here. We’re not saying any of these games are bad (unless we explicitly say any of these games are bad, which we probably will). We’re saying they’re really hyped up and we don’t agree with putting…

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The 12 Funniest Shows You Can Watch Right Now on Netflix

You can never have too many comedies lined up for future binging. We’re always on the lookout for new titles to make us laugh or old classics to carry us through to the next release. If your backlog is looking a little light, or you’ve momentarily forgotten about a few…

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Our 10 Favorite Movie Opening Scenes

We’re probably stating the obvious when we say the opening scene of a movie is the most important one. It has to introduce the audience to the world of the movie, flesh out at least the main character and his or her motivations, provide chronological context if the movie isn’t…

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