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“Meet an amazing man who has dedicated his entire adult life to stone skipping, sacrificing everything to produce world-record throws that defy the laws of physics. To hear him tell it, he has no choice.” Stone Skipping Is a Lost Art. Kurt Steiner Wants the World to Find It. (When he told his parents he planned to pursue a career in stone skipping, they were like, “Phew. We thought you were gonna say newsletter writing…”)

+ A food company executive went Beyond Meat … all the way to cartilage. Beyond Meat COO arrested for biting man’s nose near Razorback Stadium.

+ And the most Bay Area obituary of all time: “Deward Hastings, a 78-year-old Berkeley man known for welcoming the public to his backyard hot tub, died on Saturday afternoon while doing what he loved best, hot tubbing.”