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In 2019, Carleigh Berryman began her virtual reality journey when she started her company, Viva Vita, just before the COVID-19 pandemic. She would fit goggle headsets on the residents at senior communities, enriching the lives of those who were no longer able to travel safely. However, due to the pandemic and subsequent closure of vital senior programs, Berryman and her team were forced to develop tech that could be used with COVID-19 protocols in place. In 2021, she took TODAY inside Iona Senior Services in Washington, D.C., where the Viva Vita virtual reality tours program continues to help seniors connect to the world without leaving their homes.
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Opened in 2018 by the Ladies Action and Empowerment Program, the Dragonfly Thrift Boutique in Miami helps train, support, and employ women who have been recently released from prison.
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In 2012, Andre McDonnell started It’s From the Sole, a nonprofit organization that gives new or gently used sneakers and brand-new socks to the homeless across the U.S. and around the world. He has since provided more than 30,000 pairs of sneakers worldwide and continues his mission on the streets of New York City.
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Heather started The Lucky Mama Project, a nonprofit that congratulates and celebrates new families to the Down syndrome community.
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Style guru Alida Rubin visits tristate-area nursing homes offering women free makeovers.
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Ambien, has been prescribed to millions of insomniacs internationally, yet those who use the drug are seldom aware it also possesses the ability to normalize functioning in certain types of damaged neurons, a phenomenon called "the Ambien effect."
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When AMC's Breaking Bad premiered in 2008, one of Alabama's most successful meth cooks was already knee deep in building a massive meth empire. His name? Walter White. 2015 Webby Award winner for Best Online Documentary Series.
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Matthew Heimbach is a racist. At Towson University, in the suburbs of Baltimore, Matthew has formed a group called the White Student Union that advocates for "persons of European heritage".
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All across America, hardened criminals are donning the cloaks of elves and slaying dragons all in orange jumpsuits, under blazing fluorescent lights and behind bars.
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VICE meets a few surviving members of Los Frikis, a Cuban punk movement, who purposely infected themselves with HIV in the early 90s.
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Frank hangs out with Gary Bimonte, co-owner of legendary pizzeria Frank Pepe Pizzeria Napoletana, spends time with the owners of Zuppardi's, and meets some true New Haven legends.
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The European Union and the United States have banned the sale of seal products, but in recent years there has been a surge of interest from Canada's culinary world in the sustainable harvest of wild seal meat. Wanting to know more, we sent MUNCHIES correspondent Adam Gollner on a journey to seek out the key players involved in the debate.
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You would expect a chef who runs one of the world's top 50 restaurants—serving some of the most meticulously crafted dishes you ever seen—to be very professional, if not uptight. That's not to say that Esben Holmboe Bang of Maaemo isn't professional, but after a night out with him, we can most definitely say he is not uptight.
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In this episode of MUNCHIES Presents, Abdullah travels to Nepal to eat, drink, smoke and learn about weed in one of the oldest cannabis cultures in the world.
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Masaharu Morimoto is most famously known for being an Iron Chef, but there is another side of him we don't get to see too often.
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YouTube sensation Chris Schewe aka “Shoenice22” explains why he's spent the past two years eating and drinking everything from sticks of deodorant, to tampons, to full bottles of grain alcohol.
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In this episode of My Life Online, we meet Dr. Matthew Schulman, one of Snapchat’s most popular plastic surgeons and the man behind the snapchat account @nycplasticsurg.
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In this episode of Symbiotic, Motherboard travels to South Africa for a firsthand look at the traditional sangoma practice of smoking vulture brains, which has come under criticism from conservationists and sangomas alike who worry it's contributing to endangering certain species of Africa's vultures.
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Dr. Nakamatsu, colloquially known as Dr. NakaMats, claims to be the most prolific inventor in the world. He holds 3,500 patents and counting—more than any other inventor living or dead.
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It's a poetry drone! It's a solar plane! It's...a single slice of classic cheese 'za mounted to a weather balloon that's pumping EDM out into the heavens?
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Watch what happens when this brave doula's client doesn't make it to the birthing center in time!
When you're a mom who has previously lost a pregnancy, giving birth for the first time can be terrifying. Watch Regina guide her client through three challenging days of labor.
A doula's work doesn't end after the baby is born. In Maria's case, it's just beginning. Watch Maria help her client through the very first days after her c-section.
Christine reunites with one of her dearest clients for the birth of their second baby.