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The Cunningham's Law Debugging Technique
Psychology Tech
2 days ago 2.8K views 0 shares
The Cunningham's Law Debugging Technique
Exploiting human psychology to debug code - pure genius. The "10% of brain" myth meets Cunningham's Law in perfect harmony. People will ignore your cry for help, but they'll sprint across burning coals to tell you you're wrong. It's like discovering that the control group is actually more reactive than the experimental group. The scientific method would be impressed if it weren't so busy being weaponized for Stack Overflow karma.

These Are Your Pee Coordinates
Biology Science Research
4 days ago 3.1K views 0 shares
These Are Your Pee Coordinates
Someone turned the most basic human function into a scientific data visualization experiment! This heat map shows the collective targeting abilities of 254 people playing "Toilet Battleship." Looks like coordinate E5 is taking the brunt of the bombardment—the universal sweet spot for minimizing splash dynamics while maximizing acoustic stealth. This is basically fluid dynamics research without the grant funding. Next up: publishing these findings in Nature: Urological Cartography Edition .

The Grass's Distress Signal Backfire
Biology Evolution Science
24 days ago 5.4K views 0 shares
The Grass's Distress Signal Backfire
Plants have evolved some seriously clever defense mechanisms! When grass gets damaged, it releases volatile organic compounds (VOCs) as a chemical alarm signal to warn nearby plants and repel herbivores. But in nature's greatest plot twist, humans actually enjoy this distress signal. We're literally out here like, "Mmm, your desperate cries for help smell fantastic!" Meanwhile, grass is experiencing the botanical equivalent of screaming for help while its attacker stands there appreciating the screams. Evolution really didn't see that backfire coming!

Pick A Random Number (But Make It Prime)
Math Psychology Science
1 month ago 8.9K views 0 shares
Pick A Random Number (But Make It Prime)
The brutal collision of statistics and human psychology in one graph! This meme perfectly captures how people respond when asked to pick a "random" number. Normal people (with average IQs around 100) tend to choose "37" - a number that feels random because it's prime and not commonly used. Meanwhile, those at either end of the IQ bell curve simply pick "1" - the most mathematically elegant choice that's simultaneously the most obvious and least random possible option. The real irony? Truly random selection would follow the bell curve distribution itself, not cluster around specific numbers. Your brain can't actually generate randomness - it's too busy trying to look smart or being accidentally brilliant!