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Video games have always been a form of vicarious travel. Halo takes you to alien planets. Alan Wake shows off the Pacific Northwest’s capacity for ghost stories. Tomb Raider takes you across the modern world and into ancient ruins. Only thing? All those places are fictional. Some games do the exact opposite.…
The downside of the recent cocktail resurgence is there are a ton of delicious recipes that depend on ingredients you can’t reasonably be expected to have at home. They’re made of things that come from countries we’ve never heard of, in glassware we thought were props in J.J. Abrams's latest…
Even if most of you didn’t put in the time to become Eagle Scouts, you probably joined the Cub Scouts. If you did, there’s a significant chance you designed, built, carved, and painted your very own Pinewood Derby Car. In fact, some of you probably joined the Scouts just to…
Let’s go ahead and establish the tone for this article right now. Costco might be the best thing to happen to the general shopping experience since the first person set up a store. Your shopping trip could easily include picking up socks, dinner, a new computer, flowers for the garden,…
Whether you’re carrying it in your back pocket, sticking it in your bag, or leaving it on your desk, a productivity notebook is a good thing to have. Maintaining an organized notebook can keep you organized. It also allows you to record ideas that would otherwise float away. If you're…
There are pieces of clothing that are durable. You can put them through their paces and they'll hold up... for a bit. Then there are clothes designed to confront a world full of extreme situations. These clothes are the result of humans being death-defyingly stubborn creatures and are some of…
Even more so than books or movies, video games run a high risk of having no staying power. It could be because technology makes certain aspects of the game obsolete, gameplay innovations in other similar games make this one clunky and unplayable by comparison, or it just plain becomes irrelevant.…
Cults are morbidly fascinating. They unite like-minded people, but not in the beneficial ways mainstream religion or hobbies do. When a cult gets together, someone’s going to get victimized, and usually that someone is a whole lot of people all at once. What’s insane is that we all think we’re…
Whether or not you’re conscious of it, your wardrobe has extremely deep military roots. People might have wanted to dress like their war heroes or soldiers brought back certain gear that adapted well to civilian life. Maybe soldiers also didn’t want to give up certain aspects of military life once…
Comic books have a reputation that tends to alienate people. Superhero comics have years of continuity behind them, keeping casual fans from being able to fully immerse themselves in the universe, since they have to jump on a fan-made Wiki every time Doc Ock references something Spider-Man did with the…
For brewing and distilling, these are days of revival. Brewing was a macro-lager mess up until a few years ago, when craft brewing exploded, giving us roughly ten million choices in even the smallest liquor stores. Craft distilling is seeing a similar revitalization. Where we once had only a few…
Having a general knowledge of music is only going to do you good. A few up-and-comers, reliable mainstays, and personal favorites round out a personality and help people get to know each other. Plus, if you have people over or you’re carpooling somewhere, having a few reliable go-to playlists will…
Talking about climate change without going darkly pessimistic is difficult. Carbon emissions and their impact on the environment have been the subject of general scientific study for nearly two hundred years. The existence of man-made climate change was first hypothesized back in 1896 by Svante Arrhenius. We’re not writing this…
Sometimes it feels like craft brewing is more invested in the community than other industries. Where some people are in business to make a quick buck, many brewers seem to start up because they have a genuine desire to improve their communities. They know they’re good at making beer. They…
Everyone loves a comedy, so we thought it’d be easy enough to assemble a list like this. Just get everyone in the office to share the movies they laugh hardest at. But what we found was, the comedy genre is constantly bleeding and blending into other genres. Action, drama, political…
