Vol. CXXIX, Issue 6

Happy New Year, Tech readers! Time to review the final three coffee shops featured in the 2025 Pasadena Coffee Passport!

“This past summer I was fortunate enough to have been awarded a San Pietro travel prize. This enabled me to travel to Germany, Austria and Switzerland – countries I’ve wanted to travel to ever since I took my first high school German class seven years ago.”

Happy New Year to the loyal readers of my wildlife column! With ample winter rain and a lower likelihood of wildfires this year, it feels fitting to begin the term by turning our attention to aquatic animals and the ecosystems they inhabit.

Last term, Caltech cosplayed as Stanford for a week. Fortunately (or unfortunately), it was not a prank, but instead a large filming operation for the upcoming film “The Love Hypothesis,” an adaptation of Ali Hazelwood’s novel of the same name.

I had to excuse myself to the bathroom after this one. Just sat there in the stall crying, trying to be quiet. It felt embarrassing, but also, I couldn’t stop because it felt like something inside me was finally breaking open.

Devil May Cry 3: Dante’s Awakening was first released in 2005 for the Playstation 2. I bought the game in 2024 for the Nintendo Switch. Still, I feel that I can give an accurate enough critique despite not playing on the intended hardware.

I met Kenny a few months ago, shortly after I arrived at Caltech. He was the first person to welcome me to the Observational Cosmology group. When he started mentoring me, I had not yet committed to the group, so I expected him to give me some readings and maybe meet with me weekly.

Disclaimer: This is satire. Mostly. Let’s talk about the familiar experience of falling for someone on a campus so small that it may, in fact, be a social experiment.

It sounds counterintuitive, but trying to avoid all suffering can make you more miserable. If your life is organized around avoiding discomfort—skipping hard classes, avoiding difficult conversations, numbing out with Netflix and social media—it’s not working, is it?

In the not-so-distant past, the idea of designing one’s offspring belonged to science fiction. Genetic technologies were developed with noble aims — to cure diseases and prevent deadly inherited illnesses.