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Library & information science

Authority in Library Catalogs: Concept and Flowchart

This time, on the subject of an important concept in cataloging within resource organization theory (information organization theory), authority, I would like to prepare some mater

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Psychology

The Memory of Unfinished Tasks: The Zeigarnik Effect

Why do unfinished tasks linger in our minds longer than completed ones? This article explains the Zeigarnik Effect: its origins, how memory and psychological tension work together,

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Robotics

Smarter Together Than Alone: Swarm Robotics

Swarm robotics is the field of robotics that designs many simple robots to work together without a central leader, using only signals exchanged with nearby peers. This piece covers

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Economics

Reading the Economy through the Producer Price Index (PPI)

The Producer Price Index (PPI) is an economic indicator and an important tool for measuring changes in the prices of goods and services that producers supply to the market. It does

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Statistics

The Illusion That Comes After Choosing: Berkson's Paradox

Berkson's Paradox is the phenomenon in which a false inverse relationship appears between two unrelated traits when you look only at a group filtered by some criterion. This piece

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Earth science

Why Cities Run Hotter: The Urban Heat Island

An urban heat island is when a city runs warmer than the countryside around it. This piece covers Luke Howard’s early records in London, why pavement and buildings trap heat, how t

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Library & information science

Books Are for Use: The Five Laws of Library Science

The Five Laws of Library Science are five short principles, published by the Indian mathematician and librarian S. R. Ranganathan in 1931, that sum up whom and what a library exist