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Today you learn about whether you should wad or fold toilet paper, according to science.

Speaking of toilet paper paper you'll then learn

why your brain evolved to hoard supplies but shame others for doing the same. We'll wrap up

by answering a listener question about the grand unified field theory, with help from astrophysicist

Dr. Adam Becker.

With satisfy some grand unified curiosity.

As long as toilet paper shelves remain close to empty,

T.P. is as good as gold and should be used sparingly.

So it's time to settle the great wiping debate.

If you want to be the most efficient with your toilet paper, is it better to wad, or to fold?

Luckily, Mel magazine staff writer Quinn Myers already set out to answer this question,

with some help from a nuclear physicist named Sam Navario.

Navario boiled down the issue to minimizing toilet paper usage

while maximizing wiping efficiency.

He worked out a pretty simple equation to represent this dilemma.

Total toilet paper used equals toilet paper per wipe times the number of wipes.

Let's break that down a bit more.

Paper per wipe is determined by the T.P. area times the number of folds. The

number of wipes depends on the amount of waste per wipe as well as how much waste you're dealing with.

So the equation really comes down to waste per wipe.

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