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Education

A Garden Where Children Grow: The Kindergarten

The kindergarten, a school where young children learn through play, was created by the German educator Friedrich Fröbel in 1840. This article covers the first kindergarten, his tea

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Journalism & communication

Put the Conclusion First: The Inverted Pyramid

The inverted pyramid is a way of writing news that puts the conclusion and key facts first and places less important information further back. This piece covers how it is structure

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Information technology

How Compilers Work and Optimization Techniques

Compilers are essential to software development, playing the important role of converting source code written by programmers into a form that computers can understand. Compilers go

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Psychology

The Illusion That Nothing Works: Learned Helplessness

Where does the feeling that nothing you do will work come from? This article covers Seligman's experiments, attributional style, how neuroscience overturned the explanation in 2016

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Physics

The Secret of Floating Iron Ships: Archimedes' Principle

An object in a fluid is buoyed up by the weight of the fluid it displaces. This piece explains Archimedes’ principle, why buoyancy comes from pressure differences with depth, when