Doping in Russia

Anthony "Tino" De Angelis

Zimbabwean banknotes ranging from 10 dollars to 100 billion dollars printed within a one-year period. The magnitude of the currency scalars signifies the extent of the hyperinflation.

Spanish bullfight in Las Ventas in Madrid

Doping in Russia

FSB agents drilled a mouse hole through a Sochi lab wall to swap athletes' tainted urine for clean samples at night. Over 1,000 Russian athletes across 30 sports were implicated. A state-sponsored operation so brazen it needed carpentry.

Salad oil scandal

Tino De Angelis filled vast New Jersey tanks mostly with seawater, floated a thin film of soybean oil on top for inspectors, and borrowed $175 million against it. The 1963 collapse took down two Wall Street firms in a single afternoon.

Hyperinflation in Zimbabwe

At its worst, Zimbabwe's inflation hit 89.7 sextillion percent annually. Workers were paid twice a day so they could spend wages before lunch erased the value.

The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess

Link turns into a wolf in a world drained of color, guided by a sharp-tongued imp named Midna who rides his back and slowly, reluctantly, becomes his closest companion. The friendship arrives before you notice it.

Battle of Chosin Reservoir

At −35 °C, 17,000 UN troops punched through 120,000 encircling Chinese soldiers over 17 days at Chosin Reservoir. Weapons froze mid-fire. Marines carried their dead rather than leave them. They called the retreat a march.

Francisco Macías Nguema

Francisco Macías Nguema killed or exiled roughly one-third of Equatorial Guinea's 300,000 citizens, banned the word 'intellectual,' and had the country's last lubricating oil poured into the ocean to prevent escape by boat.

Mitt Romney 2012 presidential campaign

At a $50,000-a-plate Boca Raton fundraiser, Romney told donors 47% of Americans 'believe they are victims' and pay no income tax. A bartender's phone captured every word.

Bullfighting

Minoan frescoes show unarmed athletes vaulting over charging bulls in rituals that predate the Spanish corrida by 3,000 years. The matador's suit of lights is Bronze Age costume with a modern tailor.

The History of Sexuality

Foucault's 'History of Sexuality' — three volumes published before AIDS killed him — argued the Victorian era didn't repress sex; it invented an entirely new way to talk, confess, and be made by it.