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Food & nutrition
Why doesn't honey spoil easily even though it contains water? This article explains water activity, a measure of the free water in food, and how it is measured, the limits below wh
Information technology
The Internet of Things connects everyday objects to the internet so they can collect and share data. This article looks at what IoT is, the key technologies behind it, the fields w
General knowledge
The Nobel Prize is one of the world's most prestigious awards, presented annually to individuals or organizations that have achieved outstanding accomplishments in their respective
Information technology
A Bloom filter is a probabilistic data structure that uses a tiny bit array to tell you a value is definitely not in a set. This article covers where it came from, how adding and c
Business administration
The value chain is a framework that breaks a company's work down into individual activities to see where value is created and where costs leak. This piece covers the basic concept,
Tourism studies
Leiper’s Tourism System views tourism as one connected system of tourists, the region they leave, the route they travel, the destination they stay in, and the tourism industry. Lea
Film & media
What effects does a long take, filming one scene at length without editing, create? This article covers what a long take is, Bazin's ideas, realism and tension, examples such as Ro
Social welfare
The principle of less eligibility holds that people receiving public relief must live at a lower standard than the poorest workers who support themselves. This piece covers why the
Social welfare
Family welfare is regarded as an important element that forms the foundation of every society. It plays an important role in improving individuals' quality of life, ensuring social
Food & nutrition
Pasteurization heats food below boiling to cut pathogens and spoilage microbes while keeping flavor and nutrition. This piece covers Pasteur’s wine experiments in 1864, Soxhlet’s m
Social welfare
Deinstitutionalization is the process of reducing care centered on large institutions and rebuilding housing, care, and relationships so people can live ordinary lives in the commu
Psychology
The Asch conformity experiments, begun by social psychologist Solomon Asch in 1951, showed that people often go along with a group’s clearly wrong answer on a simple line-length ta
