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Information technology

How to Integrate and Develop with APIs

What an API (application programming interface) is, how Korean services such as Naver, Kakao, and the Public Data Portal use APIs, how to get an API key and connect to an API, and

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Design

Texture Design That Maximizes Realism

Texture has become an essential element in contemporary visual design and user experience (UX). Beyond being a visual element, texture brings physical qualities that we can actuall

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Tourism studies

Traveling to Help: Volunteer Tourism

Volunteer tourism is travel in which tourists spend part or all of their trip volunteering to help local communities or nature. We look at how it began, its main types, what travel

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Chemistry

Holding Steady When Shaken: Buffer Solutions

A few drops of lemon juice make water sour, so why does the pH of blood stay the same? This article explains buffer solutions, whose pH barely changes even when acid or base is add

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Social welfare

A Blueprint That Took On Five Giants: The Beveridge Report

The Beveridge Report, published in Britain in 1942 during the Second World War, proposed rebuilding postwar welfare around flat-rate social insurance for every citizen. This piece

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Film & media

The Camera That Follows Without a Shake: The Steadicam

The Steadicam is a body-worn camera stabilizer that keeps the operator's movements from reaching the camera. We look at how it was born, the structure and principles that tame the

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Film & media

When Sound Leads or Lingers: J-Cut and L-Cut

Why do some dialogue scenes feel so natural? This article explains the split edit, which cuts picture and sound at different moments, and the difference between the J-cut, where so