99% Invisible

Good Egress

Cold War Kids

Abo Elementary School in Artesia, New Mexico, stands as a unique relic of Cold War anxiety, having been constructed in 1962 as a fully underground nuclear fallout shelter. Designed to protect students and local residents, the facility featured blast doors, decontamination showers, and independent life-support systems. ...

Skyjacking

Feet of Engineering

Song Exploder

Clean Trains

Breaking the Bank

Cow Tunnels

Ten Thousand Years

Monumental Dilemma

Young Ruin

Masters of the Uni-verse

Structural Integrity

Title TK

Barcodes

Call Now

The Fancy Shape

One Man is An Island

"Busta Rhymes Island," a tiny, unofficial landmass in a Shrewsbury, Massachusetts pond, highlights the complex regulations governing geographic naming. While Kevin O'Brien successfully added the name to Google Maps, federal recognition remains elusive due to the U.S. Board on Geographic Names' strict policy requiring a...

Tunnel 57

The Berlin Wall, a 100-mile barrier erected in 1961, divided families and crippled the East German economy by preventing citizens from fleeing to the West. Amidst this oppressive environment, a group of West Berlin students, including civil engineering student Rolf Kabisch, orchestrated a daring escape operation by dig...

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