Have your quake and eat it, too

Everyone fills their plates with delicious desserts around the holidays. But what if those were tectonic plates? See which gingerbread houses stand up to the test in this year’s Struc­turally Stable Gin­ger­bread House Com­pe­ti­tion in the Col­lege of Engi­neering—and which fall flat. Video by Benjamin Bertsch and Adam Fischer/Northeastern University