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The Summer Edit: 10 Pieces That Make Getting Dressed Ridiculously Easy

The smartest summer wardrobes aren't the biggest ones. They're the ones where every piece works with every other piece.

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The Golf Round That Built a Bourbon Empire
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The Luxury Lover’s Guide to Puerto Vallarta
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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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The Anti-Algorithm Guide to Discovering New Music
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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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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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America’s Most Historic Golf Trip

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Puerto Vallarta Beyond the Beach: A Journey Through Art & Culture

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All New iMac With Retina Display

Screen size is no longer the only barometer that matters when it comes to measuring the awesomeness of your television. Those new, ridiculously expensive 4K TVs have a horizontal resolution of 4,000 pixels (hence the name 4K). The new iMac that Apple just unveiled has a 27" 5K display, which is…

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bottleLoft Hangs Your Beverages In Your Fridge

The idea is so simple it's absolutely freaking brilliant: hang your bottles on the roof of your refrigerator using magnets. Between pizza boxes, bottled beverages and leftovers in tupperware containers, everyone has unused space in their fridge that's just waiting to help you make more cold ones. Using custom neodymium…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Building The Patek Philippe Grandmaster Chime

Patek Philippe is paying tribute to its 175th anniversary with the Grandmaster Chime Ref. 5175, which is the most complicated wristwatch they've ever built. They made a video of the entire process that's more than ten minutes of pure watch porn. This is truly extraordinary.

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Incredible LEGO Technic Creations

Its slightly-less-complicated, brick-based older brother might get most of the LEGO love, but the Technic line of LEGOs opens up a whole new world of possibilities filled with differentials, pulleys, electric motors, suspensions, linkages and complex gearing systems. Those types of component parts become essential when expert Technic builders are…

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The Story of Hobo Nickels and Your Chance to Win One [CLOSED]

It was the Buffalo nickel that was introduced in 1913 that really gave rise to the hobo nickel in America. Clever artists would take the coins and alter the images to create tiny works of art. It kicked off an underground movement, and old ones are highly desired by collectors…

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