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.
"I think we need, probably, on the order of 1,000 ships."
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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Dramatic surveillance video shows a driver turning left in front of a oncoming train. Fortunately, the driver was not seriously injured.
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.
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.
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An upstate New York power plant has been using some of its own electricity to mine bitcoin on an industrial scale.
A sheep dog and baby sheep love running around together inside this barn in Austria.
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.
Investors and clients of the facial recognition start-up freely used the app on dates and at parties — and to spy on the public.
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Falling ice doomed this unfortunate driver's windshield.
An exhibition at the Art Gallery of Toronto shows how magicians enticed audiences with advertisements of levitations, decapitations and other deceptions.
The making of a Koto Fukuyama, a 13-stringed harp-like instrument, is a very involved process
"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.'"
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.
A BMW repeatedly rammed into a pick-up in a scary road rage incident in North Hollywood.
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.
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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.
"I remember one woman who arrived and asked, 'Is this the clinic?' And we were like, 'What clinic?'"
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.
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.
"If something happens, make sure everyone knows I love 'em."
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.
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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.
Is the elephant actually intimidated by the charge, or does it have enough sense to know it doesn't want to hurt the calf?
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.
Miumiu, a 6-year-old guitar prodigy, performs a beautifully mellow version of the jazz standard "Fly Me To The Moon."
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.
Snorkelers swimming near Bali, Indonesia get the wrath of an angry little fish defending its territory.
A classic grift has evolved over time.
Don't hoard masks and food. Figure out how to help seniors and the immunosuppressed stay healthy.
While hiking near the ice castles in Heber, Utah, a man discovers the weird sounds cracks on a frozen lake make.
Being holed up at home has never been more pleasant.
Last year, investors clamored to buy into the burgeoning cannabis industry in a moment of market zeitgeist. What happened?
A.I. generated text is getting really good — what does that mean for the future of the internet?
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?
Were it not for the poor quality of the body cam footage, this would look straight out of a movie.
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.
"It appears that the burglar was fishing for about three hours before landing his catch," police told reporters, according to CNN.
How do we have four trillion-dollar companies growing at startup rates? Because they aren't like other companies.
Banjo is applying artificial intelligence to government-owned surveillance and traffic cameras across the entire state of Utah to tell police about "anomalies."
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:
Airbnb suspended scores of shady property listings in London. And then things got really messy.
If you looked at this light pollution map of the United States, you might start to wonder after a minute; what is this sprawling metropolis in North Dakota?
Buying a car from a dealer isn't nearly as bad as it used to be. Unfortunately, there are still some stores that care more about profit than happy customers.
The man behind iBackpack, an alleged crowdfunding scam, wants you to know he isn't a scammer. The Verge's Ashley Carman visited Doug Monahan in Galveston, Texas, to hear his side of the story.
A roundup of the most interesting, thought-provoking and surprising questions that our favorite columnists addressed in recent days.
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