Hillary Clinton email controversy

Langton's ant after 11,000 steps. A red pixel shows the ant's location.

Kurt Debus (front row, third from the left), a former V-2 rocket scientist and SS officer who became a NASA director, sitting between US president John F. Kennedy and US vice president Lyndon B. Johnson in 1962 at a briefing at Blockhouse…

Hillary Clinton email controversy

FBI Director Comey sent an 11-sentence letter to Congress on October 28, 2016 — eleven days before the election. Analysts later measured a 2-to-3 point polling swing in the days that followed.

Langton's ant

Langton's Ant flips squares black or white under two rules. For 10,000 steps it scrambles randomly. Then, without warning, it locks into a diagonal highway and marches forever. Nobody has proved why.

Titanfall 2

One level drops players into a factory mid-demolition, then hands them a device that rewinds time — walls rebuild, catwalks reappear, fire retreats — letting a player walk across a collapsing structure by running backward through its own destruction.

Trajan's Dacian Wars

Trajan's two Dacian campaigns dragged 165 tonnes of gold and 330 tonnes of silver back to Rome — enough to fund gladiatorial games lasting 123 days straight. The kingdom of Dacia ceased to exist.

Not Like Us

Kendrick Lamar accused Drake of grooming minors, named him a predator over a beat, then watched it hit number one — a Billboard chart-topper built on a criminal allegation.

Eisriesenwelt

Eisriesenwelt stretches 42 kilometres into the Austrian Alps — the world's largest accessible ice cave — where wind racing through the entrance freezes meltwater into towers and archways that survive year-round despite mild summers above.

Vito Acconci

Acconci hid under a gallery ramp, masturbating and whispering sexual fantasies at the footsteps overhead — the whole act transmitted through speakers. The gallery was Sonnabend, 1972. His target was whoever paused.

John Profumo

British War Secretary John Profumo shared a mistress, 19-year-old Christine Keeler, with Soviet naval attaché Yevgeny Ivanov — then lied about it to Parliament. The lie cost him his career; the affair may have cost Britain state secrets.

Operation Paperclip

After 1945, the U.S. Army recruited 1,600 Nazi scientists — including men who used concentration camp prisoners as test subjects — then falsified or destroyed their SS and war crime records to grant them visas.