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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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The Frame Clock Tells Time with Rotating Frames

We've always been fascinated by the way people interact with time on a regular basis, which is probably why we've spent years collecting and reporting on the cool clocks we've found all over the Internet. We've seen single-handers that rotate to display the time zone. Vintage gymnasium and field house…

By Cooper Fleishman
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U.S.-Mexico Border Seesaws

The Border Wall is a hotbed of political debate and engagement that we're not going to get into. What we are going to talk about is the ingenious project that Ronald Rael and Virginia San Fratello created that uses the wall as a fulcrum for bright pink seesaws slotted through…

By Cooper Fleishman
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The Tokyo 2020 Olympic Medals Are Made from Recycled Cell Phones

It's just shy of one year until the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games kick off, and they've finally unveiled specifics on the medals that will be handed out next year. The Tokyo 2020 organizing committee held a competition with more than 400 professional designers and design students, and Junichi Kawanishi was…

By Cooper Fleishman
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‘The Shining’ LEGO Trailer by kreimkouk

This hilarious, albeit still creepy stop motion LEGO trailer for a nearly 40-year old film feels fresh and rightly timed before the "Doctor Sleep" sequel hits this November. Brilliantly and meticulously created by YouTuber kreimkouk, who has done his fair share of LEGO trailers, LEGO The Shining has 2,130 stop…

By Amos Kwon
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“Top Gun: Maverick” Official Trailer

Top Gun is back and Pete "Maverick" Mitchell returns (Tom Cruise) in top form 34 years after the original movie. The first peek at the long-awaited follow up to the iconic combat pilot action/drama just broke, and it looks like it'll echo a lot from the first Top Gun movie…

By Amos Kwon
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