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Human Psychology
Before you answer the next question, spin an imaginary wheel of fortune. It stops on 65. Now: what percentage of African countries are members of the Unite…
Human Psychology
Edward Thorndike named the halo effect in 1920 based on his research with military officers. He noticed that officers' ratings of their soldiers were highl…
Human Psychology
You show up to a meeting with a stain on your shirt and spend the next hour acutely aware of it, certain that everyone in the room has noticed and is priva…
Human Behaviour
In 1964, a woman named Kitty Genovese was attacked outside her apartment in New York City. Newspaper reports at the time claimed that 38 witnesses watched…
Human Stupidity
Garrison Keillor's fictional Lake Wobegon is a place where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average…
Human Psychology
In the 1960s, Martin Seligman and Steven Maier were conducting experiments with dogs, running standard classical conditioning procedures involving mild ele…
Human Psychology
Roy Baumeister introduced the idea of ego depletion in the late 1990s. The hypothesis was simple and compelling: self-control draws on a limited resource…
Human Stupidity
If you spend any time in online debates, you have probably seen the Dunning-Kruger effect invoked. Someone says something confidently wrong, and someone el…
Human Behaviour
You have probably noticed that spending time with a certain person leaves you feeling energised and good, while spending time with someone else leaves you…
Technology
Introduction Constitution of India provides the legal foundation for citizenship in the country. Among its provisions, Article 5 is very important because…
Human Behaviour
Suppose you donate to a charity in the morning. In the afternoon, you face a decision that involves some ethical dimension — helping a colleague, being h…
Human Stupidity
There is a version of yourself you carry around in your head that is more consistent, more principled, and more logical than the version that actually move…
Technology
largest democracy, with more than one billion eligible voters participating in elections. The democratic system of India allows citizens to choose their re…
Functional Programming
When Java 8 dropped, everyone started using lambdas, but many stopped there. Functional programming is more than just syntactic sugar for anonymous classes…
Human Behaviour
In the 1950s, psychologist Solomon Asch ran a set of experiments so simple they almost seem like a joke. He gathered participants in a room and showed them…
Human Psychology
Here is a statistic: global child mortality has fallen by more than half since 1990, representing tens of millions of lives saved. Most people have no accu…
Human Psychology
You probably know someone who aced every exam, got into a top university, and still manages to make baffling choices in their personal life. Maybe that per…
Human Stupidity
You have been watching a film for forty-five minutes and you are not enjoying it. You paid for the ticket. Do you leave, or do you sit through the remainin…
Stack Overflow
Before I started using Stack Overflow heavily, my Google searches were vague. I’d type something like 'my website is broken' and wonder why I got bad res…
React
When React Hooks were introduced in version 16.8, they fundamentally changed how we write React components. The old class-based approach with lifecycle met…
Real-Time
Building real-time collaborative features like those in Google Docs or Figma requires handling concurrent edits without conflicts. Operational Transformati…