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    Better Late than On Time
    Peter VanderPoel
    • Jan 28, 2019
    • 3 min

    Better Late than On Time

    In Support of Procrastination In professional baseball, when a batter would come to the plate and obliterate the back chalk line of the batter’s box with his cleats, the odds were good that the the hitter was a student of Charley Lau. He advised his hitters to stand back as far as possible in the box to give themselves a fraction of a second more to evaluate a pitch. That’s procrastination. They would still have to make the decision but they had a slight advantage over those
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    Form Follows Function
    Peter VanderPoel/ Viollet-le-Duc
    • Feb 13, 2017
    • 1 min

    Form Follows Function

    I recently had a cup of coffee using a cup that provided some discomfort to what is often the most soothing event of the day. Referring to the drawings above, the loop for the finger was only large enough to allow the index finger (A). The weight of the coffee, being offset from its support at (A) is pulled by gravity and rotates around the index finger (B). To keep the coffee from spilling, the rotational force at (B) must be countered by an equal and opposite force- the knu
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