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April 28, 2015 AUTOS

Your Tires Can Last Much Longer than You Think—Here’s How

– Chances are, there’s some sourceless bit of knowledge rattling around in your head. You don’t know how it got there or where it came from, but you believe it. Maybe your convictions on tire life falls into that category. We’ve always held that that our favorite round rubber bits had a fixed and somewhat short period of life before age caused a serious negative impact on performance. Turns out, we were

April 28, 2015 AUTOS

James May: Top Gear Trio Would’ve Left Show After Three Years, Anyway

– Jeremy Clarkson managed to get himself booted from what any of us would likely consider the greatest job . . . in the woooooorld. James May recently revealed that he won’t carry on with Top Gear without the loudmouthed Clarkson. Today, we learn that May only expected to get another three years out of the job anyway—but he’d already placed an order for a $317,000 Ferrari 458 Speciale, a

April 28, 2015 AUTOS

Hennessey Supercharged Corvette Puts out 847 HP at the Wheels [w/ Video]

-The 650-hp Corvette Z06 is fast. Freaky fast. But Hennessey wants to outdo it with a regular ol’ Stingray. – The Texas tuner just demonstrated how fast a bone-stock C7 Z06 will do zero to 185 mph (and, subsequently, how quickly the gas gauge will drop on that top-speed run). We’re betting this “lesser” Stingray will do it even faster—provided it can get any traction at all. – That’s because the

April 28, 2015 HEALTH (MSM)

Rare elephant bird egg could fetch more than $70,000 at auction

Believed to be more than 400 years old and nearly 200 times the size of a chicken egg, an extremely rare elephant bird egg will be auctioned in London this week, with an estimated price tag of up to $76,000. The egg, over 30 centimeters (11.81 inches) high, was laid by the now extinct elephant bird, a giant flightless bird indigenous to Madagascar, according to auction house Sotheby’s. The bird,

April 28, 2015 HEALTH (MSM)

Why Our Right to Choose Keeps Us Healthy

How choice helps us to recover from illness and stay healthy.Recently in my family, an elderly relative became unwell; she was not so unwell that she needed to be admitted into hospital, but was too unwell to be home alone, unattended. Many families face this kind of situation, and aside from any of the wider or longer-term implications, one of…