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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. DEALS WE DIGG | SPONSORED This App Applies The Best Promo Codes to Your Cart joinhoney.com If you aren't using Honey when you shop online, you're probably wasting money. Here's how it works. 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 FROM THE DIGG STORE Get A High-End Dell Or Apple Desktop Computer At A Deeply Discounted Price digg.com You don't have to break the bank to get a new desktop — just buy refurbished. We've rounded up some of the top deals on like-new refurbished models. 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. View the Edition at Digg.com »

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