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The Nike Chapter of My Summer Story
By Lanny Fuller
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The Hotel Redefining Charleston Charm

By Cool Material
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How This Cryptic Vinegar Estate in Germany Sparked My Cocktail Shrub Era

A candlelit vinegar cellar in rural Germany, a bizarre tasting tour, and the unexpected trip that turned me into a homemade cocktail shrub evangelist.

By Brandon Withrow
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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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Dust Brush SEB39105216-001, Apollo, Training

It's typically the more dramatic aspects of space travel and exploration that nab the public's attention. Shuttles and rockets, spacesuits, Primary Life Support Subsystems, and hell, even portable drink bags in zero gravity. But the laundry list of NASA's gear haul is truly exhaustive when it comes to an astronaut's…

By Amos Kwon
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You Can Visit the World’s Largest Bird Statue in India

If India isn't already on your list of must-visit countries, it should be. Between the delicious food, centuries old architecture and incredible culture, the country as a whole has a lot to offer when it comes to the traveler with wanderlust. If you needed one more reason to visit--you don't--you…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Polydrop Trailer

Don’t call the Polydrop Trailer a camping trailer. It was never designed to be pigeonholed into that category. Instead, it’s a personal living space that’s meant to go with you and act as a place to get away, rest, think, and create. The mostly hand built polygon-teardrop shaped trailer uses…

By Amos Kwon
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MIT and NASA Create a New Kind of Airplane Wing

Think of how a conventional airplane is shaped and how it flies, then throw all that out the aircraft canopy. A team of engineers from MIT and NASA have just created (and tested) a new type of wing that's anything but conventional since it uses hundreds of tiny pieces that…

By Amos Kwon
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Sculptor’s Unzipped Milan Building Facade

Painting an illusion is one thing, "peeling off" a building's facade as an art installation takes a bit more, shall we say, commitment. British sculptor Alex Chinneck, who specializes in illusory sculptural and architectural displays has created a building unzipped, in what amounts to an edificial striptease. Created for Milan…

By Amos Kwon
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