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Economics

The Deflation Trap and Strategies for Overcoming It

Deflation poses a serious threat to economic stability, negatively affecting the entire economy as prices continue to fall. This article will provide an in-depth analysis of the de

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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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Business administration

Why People Pay After Using It for Free: Freemium

Freemium is a pricing strategy that gives away a basic product or service for free and charges for better features, more capacity, or added convenience. This article covers where t

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Earth science

The Force That Pushes Continents: Plate Tectonics

Plate tectonics is the theory that Earth’s outer shell is divided into rigid plates that move over a weaker layer, causing earthquakes, volcanoes, and mountain ranges. This article

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Physics

The Secret Behind Curving Balls: The Magnus Effect

Why does a free kick bend and a curveball drop? This article covers Newton's tennis ball, Magnus's cylinder experiment, the pressure difference created by spin, its uses in sports

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Tourism studies

How Welcome Turns to Resentment: Doxey's Irritation Index

Why do residents' smiles toward tourists turn into sighs as tourism grows? This article covers the background of Doxey's Irritation Index, its four stages of euphoria, apathy, anno

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Psychology

Why Everyone Just Watches: The Bystander Effect

Why does help often arrive more slowly when more people are watching? This article covers the case and classic experiments that launched research on the bystander effect, the three

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Library & information science

The Family Tree of Research Papers: Citation Indexes

How do you find the studies that have cited a paper you are reading? This article explains how Eugene Garfield's citation index came about and what it is, how to search backward an