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Why putting newspaper under your car mats during the rainy season can help keep the carpet dry |
A few sheets of old newspaper can have a surprisingly practical use in the car, especially during the rainy season. Placed beneath the floor mats, newspaper can help deal with one of the most common problems that drivers face during wet weather that is moisture. Water, mud, and dampness often enter the car through the…
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Everyone hates data centers. What if they went to space instead?
During a tense vote on a data center being built in her drought-stricken Arizona district last summer, Tucson City Councilmember Nikki Lee made an unlikely pitch: “We’re going to get a little out-of-this-world for a second, so just bear with me.” Like many of her constituents, Lee did not want Project Blue, a sprawling 290-acre…
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In 1941, Henry Ford introduced an experimental soybean car that used plant-based plastic body panels and challenged the future of steel automobiles |
Long before “bio-based materials” entered the lexicon of the car industry, Henry Ford was trying to answer a different question. Could farms supply more than food? Could fields also provide the raw materials for manufacturing? That idea reached its most unusual expression in the summer of 1941, when Ford unveiled an experimental vehicle with a…
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Why putting newspaper under your car mats during the rainy season can help keep the carpet dry |
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Everyone hates data centers. What if they went to space instead?
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In 1941, Henry Ford introduced an experimental soybean car that used plant-based plastic body panels and challenged the future of steel automobiles |
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Hackers just broke into America’s tap water. How scared should you be?