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Lewis Barber alleges BitMEX sold derivatives to UK investors without regulatory approval and seeks the return of bitcoin he says he lost. The exchange says the claim has not been served. The post BitMEX Faces £20m UK Claim Over Crypto Derivatives appeared first on Grit Daily News.

There is a word for what happened to your Uber ride. It is not polite. Merriam-Webster added it to the dictionary anyway. en·shit·ti·fi·ca·tion \ en-ˈshi-tə-fə-ˈkā-shən \ (impolite): the final stage in a process by which a digital platform is gradually modified to maximize shareholder profits while degrading the experience of those who use the platform. […] The post Uber’s Enshittification Now Comes With Receipts appeared first on Grit Daily News.

Christopher Gardner, the author of Food Sense and director of nutrition studies at Stanford, says we have overcomplicated the question of what to eatFinally, some good news: eating well is more straightforward than you think. “There’s a lot of good science out there, and it mostly agrees,” says Stanford University’s director of nutrition studies and professor of medicine Christopher Gardner from his office in Palo Alto – beaming, bronzed and the picture of health.In the age of social media and wellness grift, we’ve overcomplicated the question of what to eat, he says. Continue reading...

I’ve been trying to quit the game for years. Just when I thought I was out, it pulled me back in …I hate golf. A good walk spoiled? The whole day spoiled, more like. As with many cases of hate, it has its roots in love. You see, I just love the feeling of hitting the ball sweetly. If you feel the same way, then you’re into golf; if you don’t, then you’re not. But I am, and from the moment I struck a ball sweetly for the first time, I was hooked. It happened playing my first proper round of golf, off the third tee at the Gower Golf Club. Woomph. Making hardly a sound and barely seeming to make an impact as club hit ball, off it went. And that was me.My logic ran that if I could play like that as an absolute beginner, imagine what I could do with a bit of practice. I strode up to my ball on the fairway and, swinging with great confidence, played an air shot. Missed it completely. Pretending this was but my practice swing, I tried again, and this time made contact with the ball, but mostly with the ground, causing lasting damage to the fairway. The ball advanced all of six inches. Welcome to golf. Continue reading...

Many products claim to stop age-related thinning, but this one really worksI’m 51, perimenopausal, and somewhere between the newly distended stomach and the urge to pick fights with fellow passengers on public transport (why have people stopped wearing headphones?), came hair thinning. Brilliant.It’s not as though I could claim an abundance in the first place. However, hair-loss products were at least something I could explore professionally, so I tested and tested, figuring there must be a column in there somewhere. There wasn’t. Continue reading...

Celebrate seasonal British-grown produce with four easy dishes guided by a natural ingredient in its primeEarly autumn is one of the most generous and comforting times of year to cook with British produce: sweetcorn is at its peak, squash begins to sweeten as the weather cools and bitter leaves such as radicchio provide balance to the season’s abundance. Today’s recipes are simple celebrations of British ingredients, using just a handful of carefully chosen components to let each vegetable shine. Whether it’s a buttery cheese tart for sharing; a fresh, herby corn salad; sweet roast squash with warm, spicy ’nduja; or bitter leaves lifted with a floral dressing, they all rely on cooking with ingredients at their seasonal peak and allowing nature to guide the menu. Continue reading...

Embalming is one of the most common options for temporarily preserving bodies after death – but what exactly does it entail?Most people don’t like to think about what happens to people’s bodies after they die. Victoria Bilstein is an exception.“I’ve actually wanted to be an embalmer since I was 10 years old!” says the funeral director, embalmer and author based in the midwest. As a child, Bilstein had two leg surgeries that incorporated bones from two deceased donors. After that, she wondered about the people who had helped save her life and the families who had lost them. Continue reading...

From a vessel for grieving parents to a seal for packaged foods, this year’s Good Design award recipients won praise for providing thoughtful solutions to extraordinary or everyday scenarios‘Floats above the landscape’: the architect whose designs touch the earth lightly Continue reading...