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

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Your One-Bag Weekend Getaway Packing Guide

Cover all the bases with versatile selections for your EDC, your outdoor kit, and some R&R afterwards.

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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.

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The Anti-Algorithm Guide to Discovering New Music

Streaming made music infinite. Which made discovery harder. Here’s how we’re finding our way back.

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Your Go-To Drink Can Predict Your Favorite Type of Wine

Two MIT grads with a passion for wine built an algorithm that uses your favorite drink to show you the wines that you're most likely to enjoy. Answer a short quiz with questions like “what’s your go-to drink (other than wine)?” and they’ll evaluate your palate against 100+ wines to…

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Does It Fart?: The Definitive Field Guide to Animal Flatulence

Okay, it's time to tackle the hard questions. We're not talking about the meaning of life or whether the chicken came before the egg. We're talking about farts. More precisely, we're talking about which animals fart and why haven't we thought more about that. Luckily, you don't need go sniff-testing…

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Bowley Lock Company Model 543 High Security Padlock

Google "How to Pick a Padlock" and a collection of easy instructional videos await, many boasting that five seconds and a paperclip is all you need. We don't know about you, but to us that doesn't sound super secure. Meet Model 543 from the Bowley Lock Company. The unique key…

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Morning Recovery Hangover Cure Drink

As we've gotten older our hangovers have gotten worse. Problem is, our love for bourbon and beer has not diminished in the least. In our never-ending quest to find things that help with those painful AMs, we came across Morning Recovery, a drink that's received $8 million in backing from Silicon…

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This Startup Wants to Build the World’s First Luxury Space Hotel

If Richard Branson and Elon Musk have their way, you'll soon be able to book trips to space for vacation. But what happens if you want to do more than just experience weightlessness and come back down to earth? If the startup Orion Span has any say in the matter,…

By Cooper Fleishman
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