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Avenue of the Giants Weekend Run - Sat. March 23, 2024

Saturday will be a very full day of cruising from Novato up through the Avenue of the Giants and ending at Eel River Brewing in Fortuna. Sun...

You May Never Need To Wash Your Car Again

Jalopnik reports on researcher Catarina Esteves of the department of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry at the Technical Universtity at Einddhoven, Netherlands who has developed a coating that could mean never having to wash your car. Ms. Esteves team advises that the coating is actively self-healing so that anything that damages the outer surface causes molecules to actively re-orient themselves to the new surface. Water allegedly simply rolls, off, taking dirt with it. Thus, Esteves claims an "occasional rain shower" is all that's needed to wash the car.