#via The Atlantic

The rise and fall of the world's only female yakuza gangster

In almost 40 years, Mako Nishimura never lost a fight. She told me this as if it were as obvious as night following day. Nishimura is 5ft-nothing and slight of build. She is also probably the only wom…

When The Going Gets Weird·May 27·6 min read

How Hemingway's love of boxing changed salad dressing

In 1925, Ernest Hemingway published In Our Time, his first collection of short stories, which included his first published boxing story, “The Battler.” On a cool Tuesday evening in October of 1955, th…

When The Going Gets Weird·May 21·6 min read

via Saturday Evening Post via The Independent via Futurism through my Patreon

A heroic quest to find the best free restaurant bread in the US

Here is the promise you and I must cling to across the thousands of words that follow: At some point within this text, I will reveal to you what—after 555 responses, 13,000 miles of travel, and months…

When The Going Gets Weird·May 5·1 min read

via The Atlantic via Wikipedia via The Smithsonian through my Patreon

Two hikers found a can with $300,000 in gold coins inside

A field in an overgrown Czech Republic forest has, for nearly 100 years, served as the hiding place for a secret stash of nearly 600 gold coins and other precious metal goods tucked into a stone wall.…

When The Going Gets Weird·Apr 7·1 min read