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Atlantic Farms Hops Shampoo

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This hops shampoo ($24) from Atlantic Farms won’t leave you smelling like a brewery. Hops have a sharp, botanical smell, and they’ve been used medicinally at least as long as they’ve been used in brewing. Atlantic Farms makes their hops shampoo with moisturizing agents like olive and coconut oil, and … Read More

Thought-Controlled Robot

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Add “remote controls” to the big list of things that’ll make you sound crazy to your grandkids. Researchers at the University of Minnesota have created a flying robot controlled entirely by thought, as well as an electroencephalography cap  studded with sixty-four electrodes that can detect electrical activity from different parts … Read More

How Unlikely is Canada’s Stanley Cup Drought?

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Is there a phrase as painful as “Canada’s Stanley Cup drought”? It’s been twenty years since Montreal Canadians brought Lord Stanley’s Cup home, but how likely is it? Wunderkind Nate Silver attempted to answer that very question in his latest instalment of FiveThirtyEight, and here’s what we learned: 1. If … Read More

Truma Propane LevelCheck

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This is our typical method of measuring how much propane we have left in the tank: we lift the tank, shake a bit, say “Meh, it’s probably fine”, and then go on to run out of propane halfway through the cookout. Since our method is terrible (and it’s probably pretty … Read More

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