Thursday, March 5, 2020

Snail Ale

The Woman Who Found A Snail In Her Soda And Launched A Million Lawsuits, How A Homeless Man Built A Life Underground, Women's Unpaid Labor Is Worth $10,900,000,000,000
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WE BUILT THIS CITY
BUNKERING DOWN
The Invisible City: How A Homeless Man Built A Life Underground
theguardian.com
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.
SPAN YOU BELIEVE IT?
This Is A Completely New, Possibly Perfect Way To Build Bridges
popularmechanics.com
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.
WE HAVE MADE A HUGE MISTAKE
We've Embraced The Hustle Life, And It's Making Us Miserable
forge.medium.com
We have side hustles, the latest products and an obsession with doing instead of being. But have we all been buying snake oil?
STONE COLD
Hyundai Unveils Electric Vehicle Concept That Looks Like A 'Perfectly Weathered Stone'
dezeen.com
Hyundai has designed its latest Prophecy concept car to look like a "perfectly weathered stone", opting for smooth lines and curves over complexity.
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CASH ME OUTSIDE
SIT BACK AND TAKE STOCK
How Much Money You'd Have If You'd Invested $1,000 In The IPOs Of 20 Major Companies
digg.com
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.
TIME DOESN'T PAY
Women's Unpaid Labor Is Worth $10,900,000,000,000
nytimes.com
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.
BILL OF WRONGS
One Twin Got Cancer In The UK. The Other Got It In The US. Here's How Their Experiences Differed
vice.com
Same genes, same type of cancer, very different bills.
SLIMY SITUATION
The Woman Who Found A Snail In Her Soda And Launched A Million Lawsuits
narratively.com
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.
VIDEO OF THE DAY
INCOMPREHENSIBLY HUGE
Man Creates A Device With A Nearly Infinity-To-One Gear Ratio
youtube.com
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.
IN THE NEWS
Cruise Ship Held Off At Sea After California Man Dies From Coronavirus Less Than Two Weeks After His Trip
NASA Releases A 1.8 Billion-Pixel Panorama Of Mars, And It's Spectacular
Brawl Breaks Out In Turkey's Parliament After MP Criticizes Erdogan
Doctors Use CRISPR Gene Editing Inside A Person's Body For First Time, In Attempt To Treat Blindness
WATCH: Alex Trebek Gives A One-Year Update On His Health
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FROM THE ARCHIVES
CHILE CON
The Talented Mr. Khater (2015)
texasmonthly.com
When 23-year-old Callie Quinn moved from Texas to Chile, she counted on finding a beautiful country, meaningful work, and interesting friends. She had no idea she'd set off a manhunt for an international con artist.
Let's hustle our way to the weekend.