A simple physics experiment explores why lightning follows the path of least resistance, not the shortest route.

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A study suggests our brains are not optimized to calculate the shortest possible route when navigating on foot. Instead, pedestrians use vector-based navigation, choosing 'pointiest' paths that point ...

The shortest route between two points is a straight line, but your brain may have other priorities. As a graduate student 20 years ago, urban studies professor Carlo Ratti, the director of the ...

Everyone knows that the path of least resistance is the path that will always be taken, be it by water, electricity or the feet of humans. This is where the PCB presented by [ElectrArc240] on YouTube ...