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Tourism studies

Why Do Peak and Off-Peak Seasons Exist? Tourism Seasonality

Tourism seasonality is the regular bunching of visitors and spending into certain times of the year. This article covers what it is, its natural and institutional causes, the probl

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General knowledge

How to Create a Mind Map - A Method for Generating Ideas

This time, I would like to put together material about mind mapping, a technique frequently used to discover (generate) new ideas. Whereas brainstorming, another method for generat

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Psychology

Why Everyone Just Watches: The Bystander Effect

Why does help often arrive more slowly when more people are watching? This article covers the case and classic experiments that launched research on the bystander effect, the three

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Library & information science

What You Found and What You Missed: Precision and Recall

When a search list looks right at the top, how do you know what was left out? This piece explains precision and recall, the trade-off between them, the F1 score that combines both,

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Tourism studies

When Your Dream City Disappoints: Paris Syndrome

Paris syndrome is the severe confusion some travelers feel when a long-dreamed-of destination falls short of their expectations. We look at how the name came about, its main sympto

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Information technology

The Interest on Rushed Code: Technical Debt

Why do the shortcuts we take for speed today come back later at a high price? This article explains technical debt, the term first used by Ward Cunningham, how interest builds up,

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Earth science

The Moment an Underground Pressure Cooker Bursts: Geysers

A geyser is a hot spring that shoots out groundwater heated underground, together with steam, at regular intervals. This article covers where the name came from, the conditions gey