The science of carb-loading seems a little hodgepodge, but ultramarathoner Karl Meltzer went whole hog: Fueled by bacon, beer, candy, and ice cream, the 48-year-old finished the Appalachian Trail in record time, 45 days, 22 hours, and 38 minutes to cover 2,190 miles. Interestingly, an unknown
“The impact of the crimes may be assessed in light of… the increased vulnerability of victims, the terror subsequently instilled, or the social, economic and environmental damage inflicted on the affected communities.” The International Criminal Court in the Hague, in a significant shift, expands its jurisdiction to cover environmental and
“At bottom, all politics is tribal, and Pak fits into a long tradition of San Francisco leaders who carved out a bigger slice of the civic pie for their community... Through the work of Pak and others, the Chinese electorate—the so-called sleeping giant of San Francisco politics—has
You won’t find it listed on the Dow, but the faith industry in America is worth twice as much as Apple. / The Guardian In case you’re a #NeverTrump Republican or an anti-Clinton Democrat, now you can trade your vote with a new friend in another state. / The
“Nobody really wants to advertise that they filter their beer through dead fish.” Isinglass, a coloring agent made from fish swim bladders, renders many British ales unfriendly to vegetarians—not that many of them know about it. The additive is much less common in German, Belgian, and American varieties. / BBC
Duterte has made waves for targeting drug users, but he also plans to go after Abu Sayyaf, a jihadist group that has pledged allegiance to ISIS. Recently they beheaded a teenage ransom, and affiliates claimed responsibility for a bombing in Duterte’s hometown that killed more than a dozen. / newsinfo.
Many states with legal medical cannabis programs exempt wide swaths of useful information that would generally be available to the public under freedom of information laws from disclosure, a review by TMN’s Sam Stecklow found. / thekindland.com Related: Illinois, one of the states with the most restrictive measures in
“When Facebook is a gatekeeper for content, the model for online publishing stops being a no-standards free-for-all and becomes something more like the Big Three television networks. Mass audiences must be handled delicately, tastefully, appropriately. PG-13, at the worst.” Tom Scocca in 2015 on Facebook’s
“It is a strange clash. These are workers without a workplace, striking against a company that does not employ them. They are managed not by people but by an algorithm that communicates with them via their smartphones. And what they are rebelling against is an app update.” Organizing fellow Uber
Tech giants like Apple, Amazon, and T-Mobile are directing all emergency donations for flooding in Louisiana exclusively to the American Red Cross, despite the corporatized charity’s mishandling of disaster relief efforts from Superstorm Sandy to Haiti to earlier flooding in Louisiana. / ProPublica “The estimated annual dollar value of
