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The World’s Highest Distillery Just Made the Perfect End-of-Summer Whiskey
Lifestyle
The World’s Highest Distillery Just Made the Perfect End-of-Summer Whiskey
By Beau Hayhoe
12 Wild Golf Facts We Learned From the Guy Who Built a Daily Golf Trivia Game 12 Wild Golf Facts We Learned From the Guy Who Built a Daily Golf Trivia Game
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12 Wild Golf Facts We Learned From the Guy Who Built a Daily Golf Trivia Game

From Tiger Woods’ surprisingly beatable low round to the golf course sitting 15,000+ feet above sea level.

By Cool Material
The Last Thing Most Home Bars Get Wrong: Ice The Last Thing Most Home Bars Get Wrong: Ice
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The Last Thing Most Home Bars Get Wrong: Ice

The overlooked ingredient that controls temperature, dilution and, ultimately, how good your drink tastes.

By Christopher Osburn
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The Luxury Lover’s Guide to Puerto Vallarta

This coastal Jalisco town has long attracted artists, celebrities, and discerning travelers. Here's how to do it right.

By Cool Material
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A Soccer Ball That Never Needs To Be Inflated

American football is easily the most popular sport in this country, but the sport we call soccer and everyone else calls football is significantly more popular with 265 million players worldwide (which is about 4% of the world's population for the record). Japanese design house Nendo continues their history of…

By Cooper Fleishman
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1974 BMW 2002 Turbo Coupe

The BMW 2002 is a legend in automotive circles. Small, quick, maneuverable, and classically handsome, it's the father of the modern BMW sports sedan. This one that's now up for auction is truly special. It's a 1974 model that's one of 1,672 made, and it has the 2002 TII's fuel-injected…

By Amos Kwon
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Entertainment
Intricate Samurai Warrior Made from a Single Sheet of Paper

We've seriously never seen anything like this. Juho Könkkölä took a single sheet of paper to create a highly detailed Samurai warrior. It took about 50 hours, and there isn't a rip or cut made in the painstaking process. He used a wet/dry folding technique on the 95x95 centimeter sheet…

By Amos Kwon
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ARES Design Porsche 964 911 Turbo

As arresting as the current generation of Porsche 911 is, there's nothing like the classic 911 shape, specifically the 964 911 Turbo version. Now, Italian coachbuilder ARES Design has performed a restomod of the 964 911 Turbo to perfection. It's a project for a client who wanted a “unique creation,…

By Amos Kwon
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Transportation
Metacycle Commuter Electric Motorcycle

Ever since Sondors came onto the scene a handful of years ago, they became a brand at the forefront of the electric bike revolution. With close to 100,000 loyal owners worldwide, they're expanding from the likes of their MadMods Customizable Mopeds and their Thin 7 Electric Commuter Bike into the…

By Cooper Fleishman
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