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7July 2025

Riddle Me This: The Bird that Broke the Camel’s Back

By |July 7th, 2025|Categories: Engineering Fun|5 Comments

A 1-ton truck must cross a bridge that can hold no more than 1 ton. The truck is empty but barely weighs 1 ton. As it’s halfway across the bridge, a bird weighing 20 grams lands on it. Will the bridge collapse?

2June 2025

Engineering Ingenuity of the Ancient Romans

By |June 2nd, 2025|Categories: Tuesday Tidbits|1 Comment

While the Ancient Greeks are often lauded for their contributions to many fields such as poetry, philosophy, and mathematics (to name a few), the incredible engineering feats of the Ancient Romans were instrumental in their infrastructural and organizational efforts, and these ingenuities are employed by engineers even today ...