I was midway through writing my latest sports law article for FORBES when I saw this Facebook post about Rebekah Gregory — a 27 year old runner who lost her left leg in the Boston Marathon bombing. Yesterday, Ms. Gregory ran the Boston Marathon on a prosthetic leg — all 26.2 miles of it. - Source
Trent Reznor, known as the musical genius behind Nine Inch Nails and as an Oscar-winning composer for films like The Social Network, just listed his Beverly Hills home for $4.495 million. - Source
Pistons, Passions, Pleasures: A Sicilian Dream is a dramatized documentary about the early life of Vincenzo Florio and the establishment of the Targa Florio road race. The film includes interviews of racers who participated, and local Sicilians who experienced the Targa running through their villages and across the narrow roads of the region. The film’s trailer is at the bottom of this post. - Source
Venture capitalist Dmitry Kaminskiy thinks he has what it takes to lengthen people’s life spans: a million-dollar prize, which he will award to the first person to beat the current longevity record and reach his or her 123rd birthday. - Source
FCA CEO Sergio Marchionne has waved the flag, again, for his long-term merger goal, but his idea that maybe a marriage would work with Ford or GM seems to have quickly died away. - Source
Environmental advocates who sound the alarm about climate change may be harming the cause by fomenting divisiveness in public discourse, a leading climate scientist said in Chicago Monday. - Source
The first American investigation of Medicare coverage of biologic disease modifying drugs (DMARDs) found that in starting a single biologic DMARD, patients face more than $2,700 in copayments each year before receiving relief from catastrophic coverage. - Source
Tropical Pacific climate variations and their global weather impacts may be predicted much further in advance than previously thought, according to research by an international team of climate scientists. The source of this predictability lies in the tight interactions between the ocean and the atmosphere and among the Atlantic, the Pacific and the Indian Oceans. Such long-term tropical climate forecasts are useful to the public and policy makers, researchers say. - Source
This post is part of a series looking at how India and South Asia will feature in the American presidential election of 2016. Among the Republican field, Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) has a well-known interest in foreign policy. Since his election to the U.S. Senate in 2010, he has served on the Foreign - Source
The collapse of oil drilling in recent months will have repercussions in a broader swath of the economy. For example, steel shipments have yet to reflect the new reality. Look for other regions and sectors to feel some collateral damage in the months to come. That said, the effect on the overall economy of cheap oil is still positive, but not without some real losers amongst the winners. - Source
Our long national Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice trailer roll-out nightmare is over. Last night was indeed the IMAX trailer launch event, and reports came in of packed houses and excited crowds. My AMC Woodland Hills auditorium was pretty full, and everyone in attendance got an IOU for a free pre-release screening of the film a week before its March 25th debut. That’s a rather lovely gesture frankly, as WB basically took a big chunk out of its own opening weekend gross by giving the biggest of the big fans a free preview of the film that (presumably) won’t be tabulated into the film’s debut frame grosses. Anyway, the trailer that ran last night was the same one as we all saw online last week, with the addition of a five-second sequence of Batman and Superman charging at each other like the end of Rocky III (cue the “Eye of the Tiger” remix). - Source
Consumers of cannabis are more prone to experiencing false memories. One of the known consequences of consuming this drug is the memory problems it can cause. Chronic consumers show more difficulties than the general population in retaining new information and recovering memories. The new study also reveals that the chronic use of cannabis causes distortions in memory, making it easier for imaginary or false memories to appear. - Source
A genetic test that can prevent the entry of ‘killer’ bees into Australia and their spread around the world has been created by researchers. “A number of countries have export conditions aimed at preventing any possible introduction of killer bees. Now our test will provide them with certainty and allow the safe import of bees without this biosecurity risk,” a researcher said. - Source
