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What To Watch If You Loved (Or Hated) Digger
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What To Watch If You Loved (Or Hated) Digger
By Andy Vasoyan
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The Secret to Perfectly Messy Hair

The perfect balance of polished and undone, without the crunch, grease, or obvious effort.

By Cool Material
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We Did a Little Sole Searching for Pickup Season

Your basketball shoes might be ready for the court. But are your feet?

By Cool Material
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A Better Way to Bring the Shade

Shibumi Reinvented Beach Shade. Now It’s Coming for the Pop-Up Tent.

By Cool Material
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Desk Plants that Will Bring Some Life to Your Office

Being cooped up inside all day can weigh on one’s mood, and finding a balance between keeping things productive and professional and avoiding the sterility of a doctor’s office can be tough. Posters, photographs, calendars, coffee mugs, all are great ways to personalize your cube or desk, and a few…

By Maxwell Barna
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23 Soundtracks That Define Cool

A great soundtrack is more than just a collection of great songs. A great soundtrack pulls a story along while somehow effortlessly blending into the background. The right one can help define a movie; a terrible one can ruin an otherwise decent film. A great one can even stand on…

By Mike Newman
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The 8 Best Wild Ales You Can Drink in a Decade

Some beer fans stop at their local grocery store, grab a six-pack of their favorite beer, drive home and crack a bottle as soon as they get there. But there are other beer fans who are willing to wait a little longer to sample the goodness within those bottles. For these…

By Christopher Osburn
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The Many Uses of Hudsalve, the Swedish Military’s Answer to a Million Problems

In the mid-1900s, soldiers in the Swedish military were in need of something to help soothe and heal blisters on their feet along with various nicks and cuts. In response, the military contracted their pharmacy to come up with a product to meet the soldiers' needs. The pharmacy created Hudsalve ("Skin Ointment"), an anhydrous…

By Mike Newman
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The 10 Best Colleges, Based on How Close They are to a Great Brewery

There’s a lot of stress involved in getting a college degree and it’s doubled (maybe even tripled) when a student decides to get his or her Master's Degree, Law Degree, Doctorate or any other high education. All that schooling is bound to build up some serious stress and we all…

By Christopher Osburn
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