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Watch A Master Pizza Maker Make Deliciously Perfect Pizza
Video: A.W. Mangieri is the chef at famed Una Pizza Napoletana in San Francisco and he makes pizzas. Fantastic, simple and delicious 12-inch Neapolitan pizzas that look absolutely perfect. I’ve never had them but I can totally smell and taste them through this video. Plus, Mangieri seems a little crazy about pizza so they must…
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Meet The Rocketman Who Made Jet Fighters And Car Crashes Survivable
In the early jet fighter days, nobody knew how much G-force the human body could withstand. Testing the limits of survivability came down to human testing. Today, we owe much of that knowledge to Col. John Paul Stapp, who strapped himself into a crazy rocket sled to see just what the human body could endure.
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This Mid-Century Legend Made Sculptural Magic Out Of Plain Paper
There’s a whole world of potential in a blank sheet of paper, but few folks can turn something flimsy and flat into 3D magic like Irving Harper. The creative legend — now 98 years-old! — did industrial and graphic design for Herman Miller during its dynamic mid-century era, but his legacy also includes an incredible…
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How Close Are We To A Real Iron Man Suit?
If we are just talking about an armoured suit that augments a human’s strength and weaponry, then we’re extremely close. But if we’re talking about something with all of the primary abilities of Iron Man’s character (i.e. flight, clean infinite power, and repulsor beams), that may never become a reality. The current version in the…