Old-school TV screens used to do a similar effect sometimes. Before plasma or LED, television screens were made of phosphor-coated glass and lit by cathode ray tubes, which blasted the glass with electrons and made the pixels glow. They were bulky, heavy, and if you dropped one while you were moving, you were buying a new TV for sure.

Microwaves work by bombarding your food with electromagnetic radiation, which makes the molecules wiggle a lot faster and harder, generating heat. This is called dielectric heating.

If there was a tear in the space-time continuum, maybe it would look something like this. Whatever this is, it would be inadvisable to go near it. If I saw it in the woods, I would keep a respectful distance.

The Trapper Keeper was a status symbol of school children during the ’80s. It was essentially a three-ring binder with a fold-over flap, folders and pockets inside to organize your school work from all your classes, and a rad cover. Hopefully. If you got to K-Mart early in the back-to-school sale and didn’t get stuck with an ugly one.

It also had a Velcro closure, making it the bane of every homeroom teacher’s existence every weekday morning as 23-25 kids ripped open their Velcro at the same time.