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Robotics

Smarter Together Than Alone: Swarm Robotics

Swarm robotics is the field of robotics that designs many simple robots to work together without a central leader, using only signals exchanged with nearby peers. This piece covers

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Robotics

Reaching Out a Hand from Afar: Teleoperation

Teleoperation lets a person control a distant machine directly, sending their hands and eyes where people cannot safely go. This article covers its origins in 1940s–50s nuclear lab

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Journalism & communication

The New Era of Communication Reshaped by Social Media

With the digital revolution, the way information circulates is changing faster than ever, and social media lies at the center of these changes. Today, social media has a profound i

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Psychology

When Your Eyes Change What You Hear: The McGurk Effect

The McGurk effect is an illusion in which a mismatch between the sound you hear and the lip movements you see makes you hear a sound that was never actually spoken. This article co

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Earth science

When Volcanoes Block the Sun: Volcanic Winter

A volcanic winter is a drop in global temperatures lasting several years after a huge, sulfur-rich eruption spreads tiny sulfuric acid droplets through the stratosphere and blocks

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Robotics

The Hand at the End of the Robot Arm: The End Effector

The end effector is the device at the tip of a robot arm that actually does the work. This article covers where it attaches, the types of grippers, process tools and sensors, how t

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Design

The More Choices, the Slower the Decision: Hick's Law

Why do decisions take longer the more options there are? This article explains Hick's Law, covering its meaning and origins in a lamp experiment, decision time that grows logarithm

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Library & information science

Principles and Criteria for Public Library Budget Preparation

This time, I would like to put together material on budgets in public libraries. Public library budget preparation is the process of developing, analyzing, and finalizing plans for

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Logistics

The Way Back Is Logistics Too: Reverse Logistics

Returns, recalls, reusable crates, and recycling all flow in the opposite direction from ordinary shipping. This piece explains what reverse logistics covers, the collection–inspec