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The Rise of Prediction Culture

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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
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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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What We're Buying
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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The Color Combos I’m Wearing a Lot Right Now

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The Handsome Fan’s Style Guide to the NBA Finals

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The Story You’ll Tell When Someone Compliments Your Shirt

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G-SHOCK’s 10-Year Pursuit of Perfection: The Fine Metallic Series Delivers Unseen Innovation

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50 Books Every Man Should Read Before He’s 50

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The Novo Dowlais 1884 Edition Watch Is Made From Train Track

Like all of the other creations that have come out of the Novo Watches shop in Alberta, Canada over the past few years, the Dowlais 1884 Edition is a gorgeous timepiece that's going to make looking at your phone or asking Alexa for the time a thing of the past.…

By Cooper Fleishman
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The TWA Terminal Is Becoming a Boutique Hotel

The Trans World Airlines Flight Center (aka TWA terminal) that was part of the now JFK International Airport was an iconic example of mid-century modern design that, unfortunately, most of us never had the chance to enjoy during its heyday. As part of a new project by MCR Development (the…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Hotel Scarface: Where Cocaine Cowboys Partied and Plotted to Control Miami

The Mutiny Hotel is a luxurious property near Coral Gables that was essentially the epicenter of the coke "hurricane" in Miami four decades ago. Hotel Scarface: Where Cocaine Cowboys Partied and Plotted to Control Miami tells the wild and true story of the Hollywood royalty, rock stars and models that flocked…

By Cooper Fleishman
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The Shoal Tent Is a Raft You Can Sleep In

Started the better part of decade ago, SmithFly makes all kinds of gear and accessories tailored to helping fly fishermen create their perfect pack. All those years of gear led them to create the Shoal Tent, an inflatable tent/raft combination that even those of you that refuse to pick up…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Broke Millennial: Stop Scraping By and Get Your Financial Life Together

You can't spend any amount of time on the Internet without running into at least one piece of information that pokes fun at Millennials for everything ranging from them just being the worst to being ridiculously entitled. Rather than piling on, author Erin Lowry decided to tackle generational finances with Broke…

By Cooper Fleishman
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