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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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Alessandro Paglia ‘Smashed’ Iconic Movie Cars

In case you haven't heard of Alessandro Paglia, he's a Milan-based artist and designer educated in the world of product design that made his bones creating one-off, realistic drawings of iconic cars getting smashed to pieces from a top-down perspective. Iconic taxis from films. Dodge Chargers emblazoned with Americana. Herbie…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Amalgam Scale Model Cars Are as Detailed as the Real Thing

Whether it was LEGO, Technic, Erector or the plastic kits for cars or planes, most of you reading this grew up building models of some kind. When it comes to scale model cars, there's Amalgam and everyone else. Bristol, England-based Amalgam has been making the scale model equivalent of Swiss…

By Cooper Fleishman
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‘Printing Money’ Visualizes How Fast You Earn a Dollar

Neal Agarwal is a Computer Science geek and data visualization specialist that has never known a statistic he couldn't make interesting. His latest project is called "Printing Money," and it's a scrolling visualization of the amount of time it takes to generate dolla, dolla bills based on specific wage amounts.…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Invader Rubik’s Cube Mona Lisa

There's no denying the fact that Leonardo da Vinci's "Mona Lisa" is one of the most iconic paintings of all time. There's also no denying the fact that the Rubik's Cube is one of the most iconic puzzle toys of all time. French street artist Invader decided to combine the…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Adobe Fresco Will Change the Way You Draw on Your iPad

For the past few years now, Adobe has been making a huge push to get all the functionality you've come to rely on from their desktop apps into mobile versions that make creating on the go easier than ever. The latest one of these apps is Adobe Fresco, a powerful…

By Cooper Fleishman
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