Porsche 991 GT3 RS
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Chris Hadfield On The Future Of Manned Space Exploration
I caught up with this one on the way back from the airport this morning. Well worth the 37 minutes just to listen to someone who has been there and done that in a big way. Click the player image to be taken to the podcast –
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The Most Valuable Car Collection Ever To Be Auctioned
Someone had done very well for themselves. More here – The Verge
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Why The Oldest Person In The World Keeps Dying
Weaver’s five-day run as the oldest person in the world was short, but it turns out that the oldest person in the world never holds that title for very long. Since records started being kept in the 1950s, the average tenure has been just around a year, according to the Gerontology Research Group; it has…
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Samurai Trader
Homma is rumoured to have made the equivalent of $10 billion in today’s dollars trading in the Japanese rice markets. In fact, he was such a skilled trader that he served as an important financial advisor to the Japanese government at the time and was later raised to the rank of honorary Samurai. I don’t…
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George Miller – Mad Max – Fury Road
Off to see this tomorrow – please dont screw up my teenager memories of the first one with a young Mel Gibson. ps:couldnt resist using a still from the original……
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What Would You Pay To Be Happy?
The happiest man in the world is a 67-year-old Buddhist monk called Matthieu Ricard. He starts his day sitting in a meadow in front of his hermitage in Nepal. He watches hundreds of miles of Himalayan peaks glowing in front of him in the rising sun. The scene “blends naturally and seamlessly with the peace…
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