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On Guillermo del Toro’s Pan’s Labyrinth, 20 Years Later
By Andy Crump
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The Rise of Prediction Culture

From sports to pop culture, Polymarket is changing how we engage with what happens next.

By Cool Material
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Bring the Soundtrack With You This Summer

The best outdoor portable speakers for beach trips, lake weekends, backyard hangs, and every adventure that calls for a little music.

By Beau Hayhoe
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An Arizona Golf Trip Even Non-golfers Will Enjoy

Arizona might be the rare golf destination where everyone in the group wins. Even the guy who has never swung a club.

By Cool Material
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This Japanese Chef Rendered 1,000 of His Meals in Notebooks for 32 Years

If a love for food and art can coexist in equal amounts, Japanese chef Itsuo Kobayashi has nailed them both in his copious hand-painted expressions of his meals for over three decades. Kobyashi painstakingly replicated his meals after writing vivid descriptions and then captured them in numerous notebooks and standalone…

By Amos Kwon
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‘The Architecture of Cinematic Spaces: by Interiors’

We love cinema and the purposeful spaces it created along the way for its storytelling purposes, but there has never really been a book before The Architecture of Cinematic Spaces: by Interiors that truly broke down the academic, graphic, architectural and perspective considerations that went into the selection process of a…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Coldplay NPR Tiny Desk Concert

We're all trapped inside working from home, preparing to kill our spouses and binge-watching Netflix because of the very real health crisis going on. Want to get a glimpse into all the five-star concerts that have been cancelled and amuse yourself for around 20 minutes in the process? Of course…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Makeway Is a Modular, Magnetic Marble Super Puzzle

We love puzzles. We love magnets. We also love marbles, Rube Goldberg machines, building things and, well, any reasonably good excuse to waste as much time as possible. That's where Makeway comes in. Makeway is kind of like building one of those Hot Wheels race tracks from your youth except…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Take One Last Look at the (Many) Plastic Bags of New York

In case you weren't aware, there's a statewide plastic bag ban coming into effect on March 1st in New York. It's been almost four decades since the ubiquitous, carry groceries and then recycle for animal poop bags changed the retail landscape forever, but as Governor Cuomo puts it, “For far…

By Cooper Fleishman
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