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First season of Hanna is finally out on Amazon Prime. Loving it so far; much better than the movie already.

I must be under a rock then

This is actually very interesting; a washing machine would make astronaut lives on board more comfortable and it would also solve the problem of having to use so much cargo space for fresh clothes; especially in the future missions farther out. It remains to be seen if they manage to actually develop a working one. NASA tried to do something similar years ago but it seems that project was abandoned at some point.

Was a great player as well; I'm not much into women's football but she was part of the German National Team back when I used to follow it closely as they were playing some great football. Will be interesting to see how she does!

Yeah I thought it would be right up your alley If you like this style of "big history" books I highly recommend Why the West Rules—For Now: The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the Future by Ian Morris. It's a massive read (some 700 pages) but it completely blew my mind.

I read this one (well rather listened to it as I got it as an audio book) last year! I've posted this here before, but it's a very fascinating book; a sort of a popular science version of "big anthropological history" that covers history, culture and societal aspects of our species and raises quite a few interesting points throughout. I think you will enjoy it. If you do, make sure to get the "sequel" called Homo Deus which continues where Sapiens left off and attempts to paint an image of the future of humankind.

Ugh. Can't stand him but at least he's got a clue when he's talking about racing. Should stick to it as well instead of trying to play an armchair psychologist and talk about mental coaching, nature & nurture, human psyche and the likes. I watched his podcast with Toto Wolff and was honestly cringing at certain parts.

Same, Mutter is both my favourite album and my favourite song This cover sounds great but it's a bit weird to hear it being sung by children given the song's lyrics

You're right - it was a Big Mac

Starting Neal Stephenson's Seveneves tonight... .

I don't know, a frozen burger that just fell out of the sky doesn't sound very appealing to me

Wtf

Hmmm hard to choose when it comes to albums but I'd say Mutter and Reise, Reise are my most favourite ones... Even harder to chose favourite songs Mutter, Seemann, Spiel Mit Mir, Du Riechst So Gut, Sonne, Ohne Dich, Stein Um Stein, Feuer und Wasser, Mein Herz Brennt, Moskau, Reise Reise, Engel are probably the ones I like the most...

I've been to their concert once, best show I've ever seen... Don't think anyone can ever top that!

Rammstein, provocation and the shock factor simply belong together There's been way too much overreacting based on a 10 second teaser before the music video was even released... It pretty much takes a critical view at the highs and lows of the history of the nation and mixed feelings about its past as a result. I don't even think the song is very good. But the visual quality and production of that video... it's a completely new level, looks even better than some movies. I wonder how much did the production cost them haha.

New Rammstein video Provocative as usual but damn just how good is the cinematography??? Amazing work.

Alonso testing Toyota's Dakar Rally car

Well to be fair, that is not the full quote of what di Montezemolo said and cutting that sentence short takes a lot out of context and makes it look a bit like inflammatory clickbait... Full quote: "He was Alonso, not Alonso-Ferrari. When he wins, he’s happy. When he doesn’t win, it’s the problem of the team, he’s unhappy. In other words, he’s less close to the team than Michael and Niki, particularly in the difficult moments. To be close to the team in the good moments is easy. In terms of performance, Fernando was very good. For me, Alonso is with Hamilton and Vettel and in the race, he's very close to Michael. In the race, Alonso was and is a fantastic driver. He lost the championship not for his mistakes. If he won one championship, today we are talking about something different. We are talking that Alonso, despite many years he didn't have the best car, he was able to win the championship. Alonso is very strong."

Your space programme is still shaping up nicely. The Chandrayaan lunar exploration programme has been fielding good results in particular, as the probe released by the orbiter has discovered water ice on the Moon a decade ago and now the second phase of the programme is coming up where you'll land a rover there... Really looking forward to it. Then the next step with the crewed orbital spacecraft into low Earth orbit should happen in just two years. Exciting times and you're surely doing well.

You sound like a great boss/superior/whatever. It can make such a big difference.

Can surely relate to that... Some of the best people I met were my colleagues at some point; have gotten much closer to them than I expected to and we still keep in touch years later. I'm going to attend the wedding of one of them late this summer, should be great fun.

Reading this I thought someone died at first Glad it turned out to be a career change instead

I'm four episodes in and love it... really well done without silly "reality show" gimmicks.

Praise Marcus Ericsson!