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Fitness

Expectations & Expiry: July 24, 2026

OAS Saguaro Swimming Shorts. This summer I needed a new pair of swimming trunks. I’ve always loved western motifs and reading lonely pigeon with Dying Breed Book Club Cowboys have been especially on my mind lately, so when I found these shorts from OAS (a Swedish swimwear brand), they were hard to pass up. They

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Cars

Streetfighter that defies expectations

Today, motorcycles are the most diverse we have ever had. From radar-based technology to practical Ducati sports bikes available for under $11,000, the world of 2026 motorcycles is full of surprises. This has helped highlight a handful of motorcycles that live up to expectations by outperforming their categories in engine size, price point, technology suites

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Fitness

Expectations & Expiry: July 17, 2026

At 91, he is hiking the Appalachian Trail. again. In 2017, Dale “Gray Beard” Sanders became the oldest person to hike the Appalachian Trail at the age of 82. His friend MJ “Nimbleville Nomad” Eberhart set the record in 2021 at age 83 (Sanders was at the finish line with a custom-made walking stick for

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Fitness

Expectations & Expiry: July 10, 2026

No hair transplants, pills or toupees. These people are embracing baldness. While plenty of guys are flying to Turkey for hair transplants, rubbing minoxidil into their scalp every night, or taking finasteride, this WSJ piece profiles men going in the other direction: They’ve given up fighting their receding hairline, shaved off all their hair, and

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Fitness

Expectations & Expiry: June 26, 2026

All of you, you and how you guys talk. The NYT published this American dialect quiz years ago, but I came across it only recently. It asks twenty-five questions about the words you use and how you pronounce them. Do you say you all or you guys? Crawfish or crawdads? Is it a garage sale,

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Fitness

Expectations & Expiry: June 19, 2026

MAT-RX Big 100. These are one of my four favorite protein bars, and I definitely eat them when I’m on a road trip. I told Michael Easter about them, and They became his favorite on the 850-mile trek. Vitamin-fortified and hefty in size—they come in at 410 calories and 32 grams of protein—they’re more of

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Fitness

Expectations & Expiry: June 5, 2026

Quaker Oatmeal Category: Brown Sugar. As I mentioned in last week’s article on what I eat in a day, my mid-morning meal is usually a big bowl of Fage yogurt and blueberries mixed with some kashi or oatmeal. The store was out of Kashi the other day, so I picked up a box of these

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