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Chemistry

A Different Color for Every Element: The Flame Test

A flame test identifies metal elements by the unique color of light they emit in a flame. This piece covers how the colors arise, Bunsen and Kirchhoff’s spectroscopy, fireworks, an

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Psychology

Attachment Theory: A Guide to Its Types and Characteristics

How attachment theory developed from Bowlby and Ainsworth, the main attachment types and their traits, and how the theory is applied today in education, therapy, family counseling,

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Economics

Only the Bad Cars Remain: The Market for Lemons

Why can good products disappear from a market where buyers cannot judge quality? This article covers Akerlof's 1970 paper, how adverse selection drives good goods out, examples bey

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Information technology

Bugs Reveal Themselves When You Talk: Rubber Duck Debugging

Rubber duck debugging is a debugging method in which you find problems by explaining your code, line by line and out loud, to a rubber duck on your desk. This article covers where

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Library & information science

Thesaurus — A Dictionary Showing Relationships Between Terms

This time, I would like to put together some material on thesauruses, dictionaries that show the various relationships among keywords when searching for the information you want. A

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Design

Design Connections: Patterns Linking Form and Meaning

In visual design, patterns are elements that play an important role by bringing form and meaning into harmony. Patterns go beyond merely repeating forms and serve an important func

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Journalism & communication

The Thoughts That Come After the News: Media Priming

Media priming is the phenomenon in which issues the media highlights become the standards we use to judge people and policies later. From Iyengar and Kinder’s 1987 experiments and

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Information technology

Less Power as They Shrank: Dennard Scaling

Dennard scaling is the semiconductor scaling rule that if transistors are made smaller while voltage is lowered by the same ratio, the power used by a given area of a chip stays th

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Film & media

Secrets to Writing Well-Crafted Scenarios

Scenarios are important tools that play a central role in various fields. They are widely used not only in films, television dramas, and theater, but also in areas such as business