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Information technology

Clever Code Is Hard to Fix: Kernighan's Law

Kernighan's Law says that debugging is twice as hard as writing code, so code written as cleverly as possible can't be debugged by its own author. We look at where the line came fr

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Earth science

Reading Age from an Atomic Clock: Radiometric Dating

Radiometric dating calculates how old a rock or artifact is by comparing a radioactive isotope with the material it decays into. This article covers how half-life works, how differ

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Earth science

When the Whole Planet Froze Over: Snowball Earth

Snowball Earth is the hypothesis that Earth’s surface was once almost entirely covered in ice during the Cryogenian Period. This article explains how the idea arose, the ice-albedo

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Logistics

Logistics That Skips the Warehouse: Cross-Docking

Cross-docking is a logistics operation in which incoming freight is not stored long-term but is sorted, transshipped, and shipped out right away. This article covers its definition

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Education

The Need for Special Education and the Role of Educators

Special education is an educational program designed for students who have special educational needs related to their individual learning abilities, physical abilities, sensory abi