Round Earth

If you want a simple means of telling the Earth is round, go north in the northern hemisphere’s summer. The Sun will set later. That’s because the Earth is round, and the north bits point toward or away from the Sun, based on season. If the Earth was flat, sunrise and sunset would be the same time, regardless of latitude.

Undergraduates

Most people are smarter than they think they are, but the world is harder than they think it is.

Porsche

If you go to Porsche’s configurator, they really hide the fact that the base, S, and style editions of the Cayman 718 have 4 cylinder engines. They don’t mention it on the specs page, and you’ve got to go digging to find it.

They’re embarassed.

Lab Days

Things have been exciting in the robotics lab.

Exciting is not good in the robotics lab. Interesting is good. Exciting is not.