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Journalism & communication

A Message That Strikes Like a Bullet: The Magic Bullet Theory

The Magic Bullet Theory is the view that media messages hit audiences directly, like bullets, and produce the same effect in everyone. We look at the age of propaganda that produce

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Food & nutrition

The Science of Sugar Turning Brown: Caramelization

Caramelization is the reaction in which sugar, heated to high temperatures, breaks down and recombines into brown compounds and aroma molecules. We look at how it works, the temper

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Business administration

It Gets Cheaper the More You Make: The Experience Curve

The experience curve is the phenomenon in which the cost of making one unit falls by a fixed percentage every time cumulative production doubles. This piece covers its origins, fro

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Film & media

Remaking Even a Single Footstep: Foley

Foley is the craft of recording everyday sounds such as footsteps, rustling clothes, and closing doors in post-production to match the picture. This piece covers its roots in 1920s

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Psychology

The Trap of Words That Fit Everyone: The Barnum Effect

The Barnum effect is our tendency to accept vague personality descriptions that fit almost anyone as accurate analyses of ourselves. This piece covers where the name came from, P.

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Film & media

The Sound That Rings Inside the Screen: Diegetic Sound

Diegetic sound is sound whose source we accept as being inside the story world, like dialogue, footsteps, or a radio in the scene, while non-diegetic sound such as background music

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Journalism & communication

Making Friends on the Screen: Parasocial Interaction

Parasocial interaction is the one-sided sense of face-to-face closeness we feel with media figures who don’t know us. This piece covers Horton and Wohl’s 1956 concept, the differen

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Food & nutrition

Why a Cut Apple Changes Color: Enzymatic Browning

Enzymatic browning is the reaction in which enzymes in fruits and vegetables use oxygen to oxidize phenolic compounds into brown pigments. This piece covers how polyphenol oxidase

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Food & nutrition

Water and Oil as One: Emulsion

An emulsion keeps immiscible liquids together as tiny droplets with the help of emulsifiers. From mayonnaise and milk to butter, this piece walks through O/W and W/O types, Bancrof