{"id":644894,"date":"2013-03-02T03:00:30","date_gmt":"2013-03-02T08:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/?p=615702"},"modified":"2013-03-02T03:00:30","modified_gmt":"2013-03-02T08:00:30","slug":"7-stories-for-the-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/644894","title":{"rendered":"7 stories for the weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"

After a relatively long break, the weekend newsletter returns. I was traveling — a lot and as a result was having a tough time trying to find and read stuff on the web. Those international data rates are a killer. Here is an assortment of links that I find worth reading. Hopefully you will like them as well.<\/p>\n

Fauja Singh, the 101-year-old marathoner<\/strong>: He started running marathons at the age of 89. And at 101 he is the oldest marathoner. His amazing story told by ESPN’s Outside the Lines. If possible,\u00a0read this on a big screen<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Why does the U.S. gets weather forecasts wrong?<\/strong>\u00a0Every time I travel outside of the U.S., I realize that the weather forecasts are very accurate, so much so that I am surprised. After all, I live in the U.S., where weather people are rarely right. It wasn’t up until\u00a0I read this piece by Dan Satterfield that I understood the accuracy disparity<\/a>.<\/p>\n

How Manhattan’s area code was influenced by the rotary dial<\/strong>. Yes kids, there was this thing called the rotary dial.\u00a0Read and find out<\/a>.<\/p>\n

India’s rice revolution<\/strong>: No genetic modifications, no herbicides. Just plain old ingenuity and India’s poorest state, Bihar, is turning into a rice mine. I am being serious.\u00a0Don’t believe me, read this<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Rape of Petty Officer Blumer<\/strong>.\u00a0Rolling Stone<\/em> looks<\/a>\u00a0at the military’s culture of sexual abuse, denial and coverup. The New York Times<\/em>‘\u00a0James Risen writes about<\/a>\u00a0Virginia Messick who decided to speak up about what happened to her when she was a young Air Force recruit.<\/p>\n

The rise and fall of Alex Rodriguez<\/strong>: The man with the one of the richest contracts in baseball is living up to his tabloid name: A-Fraud. What went wrong?\u00a0Joe Posnanski postulates<\/a>.<\/p>\n

His saving grace<\/strong>: The amazing story of Chef Curtis Duffy and his battle to escape his demons.\u00a0Also, worth reading on a big screen or on your tablet<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Also, if you are a fan of the Om Says newsletter, check out the GigaOM Reader, a weekend column that looks back at some of the top stories in tech with my take and also curates some of the best tech writing from around the web. I try and showcase indie writers, mostly because their work needs our love.<\/p>\n

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