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Library & information science

Dreaming of the Internet on Paper Cards: The Mundaneum

The Mundaneum was a vast index-card archive founded in Brussels by Belgian lawyers Paul Otlet and Henri La Fontaine to gather the world’s knowledge in one place. This article cover

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Social welfare

How Vouchers, Neither Cash nor Goods, Are Changing the World

Social welfare used to be simple. It consisted entirely of delivering goods (In-kind), such as rice or instant noodles, to neighbors facing financial hardship, or depositing a set

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Education

Building a Foothold for Learning: Scaffolding

Scaffolding is a teaching strategy that gives learners temporary support for tasks they cannot yet do alone and gradually removes it as their abilities grow. This article covers it

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Information technology

Clever Code Is Hard to Fix: Kernighan's Law

Kernighan's Law says that debugging is twice as hard as writing code, so code written as cleverly as possible can't be debugged by its own author. We look at where the line came fr