By Casey Chan
The ground just starts cracking right in front of the snowboarder. I mean, what do you even do when the ground fractures and the snow murmurs and life glitches like that? What do you do when you have two seconds to realize you’re screwed and to come up with a plan to unscrew yourself? You can’t do anything, really.
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By Casey Chan
If you’re one of the 7 billion humans on this planet who enjoys getting pizza delivered to your door, you have a piece of plastic to thank. A piece of plastic? Yes, that circular plastic thing that goes in the middle of a pie to prevent the pizza from sticking to the top of the pizza box. It’s called a pizza saver. And it was invented 30 years ago on February 10, 1983 when Carmela Vitale got her patent issued for that piece of plastic.
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By Chris Matyszczyk Technically Incorrect: Asked which technology won’t exist in 2125, Satya Nadella crushes romantics and nostalgics.
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By Eric Mack Author, inventor and futurist Arthur C. Clarke brought us some frightening visions of the future that have yet to come to pass. But he also nailed an awful lot about 21st-century life decades ago.