The Invisible City: How A Homeless Man Built A Life Underground
After decades among the hidden homeless, Dominic Van Allen dug himself a bunker beneath a public park. But his life would get even more precarious.
After decades among the hidden homeless, Dominic Van Allen dug himself a bunker beneath a public park. But his life would get even more precarious.
The rich get richer, and everyone else seemingly less so. As income inequality continues to be a problem in the United States, what better time to find out who the biggest fat cats in America are — specifically, who are the richest people in your state?
Daniel Bruin's device has a gear reduction of one googol (that's a 1, followed by 100 zeroes), meaning you'd need "more energy than the entire universe has" to spin the final gear once.
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"I had a bet against one of my good friends, D Wade, Milwaukee versus the Heat," the former NBA star explained. "I said Milwaukee was gonna win by 20 and the Heat won. I said, 'Well, what do you want me to do, pay you?' And he said, 'Nah, you gotta let your hairline grow.'"
My mom is a family practice doctor in the Bay Area, where some of the earliest US coronavirus cases appeared. I gave her a call this past weekend to ask: wait, how worried should I actually be?
"I think we need, probably, on the order of 1,000 ships."
Dramatic surveillance video shows a driver turning left in front of a oncoming train. Fortunately, the driver was not seriously injured.
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We know it's hard. Try these four tricks to help limit the number of times you touch your face each day to help prevent the spread of the coronavirus.
A sheep dog and baby sheep love running around together inside this barn in Austria.
Larry Daugherty is about to embark on his fourth Iditarod — and is following it up by attempting to climb Mount Everest a few weeks later.
An upstate New York power plant has been using some of its own electricity to mine bitcoin on an industrial scale.
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Back in 1984, NASA and the Federal Aviation Administration conducted a controlled impact demonstration, intentionally crashing a Boeing 720 into the Mojave Desert to test technologies that would help passengers and crew survive.
Structural engineers have built a new bridge using an unfolding, umbrella-like technique. It's a brand-new way to build bridges — and it's brilliant.
In South America's biggest club soccer competition the match ended 1-1, but it could've been a different story.
The famed GE CEO pioneered mergers and acquisitions, stock buybacks, and offshoring
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Falling ice doomed this unfortunate driver's windshield.
Their families built fortunes. These young people joined a group that coaches them on how to give the money away.
A BMW repeatedly rammed into a pick-up in a scary road rage incident in North Hollywood.
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The death was linked to the Grand Princess cruise ship, and was the first coronavirus fatality outside Washington state, where 10 people have already died.
You'll find one of the world's most advanced car engines inside the… 2020 Hyundai Sonata. YouTuber Engineering Explained breaks down what it does.
The making of a Koto Fukuyama, a 13-stringed harp-like instrument, is a very involved process
Sixty-six years before the infamous spilled McDonald's coffee, May Donoghue drank a ginger beer with a dead mollusk in it and changed personal-injury law forever.
Investors and clients of the facial recognition start-up freely used the app on dates and at parties — and to spy on the public.
An unintentional (and darkly comical) illustration of the futility of advice that we stop touching our faces in order to curb the spread of coronavirus.
An exhibition at the Art Gallery of Toronto shows how magicians enticed audiences with advertisements of levitations, decapitations and other deceptions.
If American women earned minimum wage for the unpaid work they do around the house and caring for relatives, they would have made $1.5 trillion last year.
Long week, huh? Here's a good video to take your mind off it.
Something about the sheer breadth of maladies that light therapy can supposedly treat has the effect of making the whole thing seem too good to be true.
"I remember one woman who arrived and asked, 'Is this the clinic?' And we were like, 'What clinic?'"
"If something happens, make sure everyone knows I love 'em."
Despite the distinct musical tastes of these band's audiences, one artist had been selected to produce limited-edition screenprints for all of them, a 22-year-old Baltimorean named Luke Martin.
This is a story about how the most sophisticated copyright filter in the world prevented us from explaining copyright law.
Is the elephant actually intimidated by the charge, or does it have enough sense to know it doesn't want to hurt the calf?
A North Carolina shelter turned Perdita's crotchety vibe into a paw-sitive and made her a star.
Same genes, same type of cancer, very different bills.
Miumiu, a 6-year-old guitar prodigy, performs a beautifully mellow version of the jazz standard "Fly Me To The Moon."
You've seen his new suit, but who would the Dark Knight be without a fancy set of wheels to prowl Gotham's streets in?
Before my diagnosis, I spent half my life playing a long and painful guessing game.
Snorkelers swimming near Bali, Indonesia get the wrath of an angry little fish defending its territory.
As the saying goes, hindsight is 20/20 — it's all too easy to look back on a skyrocketing stock and wonder "what if I'd invested before it got hot?" Well, here's the answer.
United Airlines became the first airline to cut its US flight schedule on Wednesday, as passenger worry about the coronavirus has caused a sharp drop in demand.
While hiking near the ice castles in Heber, Utah, a man discovers the weird sounds cracks on a frozen lake make.
Located at the foot of UNESCO World Heritage site Alpe di Siusi in the Italian province of South Tyrol, Messner House represents adaptive reuse at its finest.
VICE talked to the '90s icon about her long career that's included Grammys, Disney movies, a Playboy spread and being conned by an ex-boyfriend.
Were it not for the poor quality of the body cam footage, this would look straight out of a movie.
A classic grift has evolved over time.
Don't hoard masks and food. Figure out how to help seniors and the immunosuppressed stay healthy.
"It appears that the burglar was fishing for about three hours before landing his catch," police told reporters, according to CNN.
This custom LEGO model weighs 44 pounds. It's five feet long. It's changing how people build with bricks.
There is a Ben for all people. Which one is yours?
When we started watching this, our feelings were essentially "who cares?" The answer, it turns out, is that *we do care* after seeing this solution:
Cities are eager to nudge residents away from automobiles and toward modes that pose less danger, both to people and the planet, but they're overlooking easy fixes in favor of Hyperloops.
It may take up to a month to see if it the treatment worked.
How do we have four trillion-dollar companies growing at startup rates? Because they aren't like other companies.
Airbnb suspended scores of shady property listings in London. And then things got really messy.
A roundup of the most interesting, thought-provoking and surprising questions that our favorite columnists addressed in recent days.
McJoy's Hot/Cold Milk Foamer is just what the barista ordered.,
Get a better picture of the geographical realities of the second World War with this collection of over 100 intricate maps.
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