Earth science
Causes of Flooding and Ways to Prevent It
Floods are natural disasters that threaten countless lives and properties around the world every year. Climate change and rapid urbanization are increasing the frequency and intens
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Information technology
Malware, the Enemy of Cybersecurity: Types and Countermeasures
Cybersecurity has become an essential part of modern information society, with understanding malicious software (Malware) and responding to it playing a central role. Malware is ha
Statistics
The Rule Hidden in the First Digit: Benford's Law
In many naturally occurring sets of numbers, smaller leading digits appear far more often: about 30.1% start with 1, and only about 4.6% with 9. This article explains the definitio
Psychology
Understanding Fear and Apprehension and How to Overcome Them
Fear and apprehension are among the most instinctive and primal emotions humans experience. These emotions are closely connected to our survival instincts and affect our bodies and
Statistics
Judging Individuals by the Average: The Ecological Fallacy
The ecological fallacy is the mistake of assuming that conclusions drawn from group-level data apply equally to each individual in the group. This article covers how the name arose
General knowledge
Post a Wrong Answer and the Right One Arrives: Cunningham’s Law
Cunningham’s Law is the internet adage that the best way to get the right answer online is not to ask a question but to post a wrong answer. This article covers where the law came
Psychology
Improving Self-Efficacy: Effective Methods and Positive Changes
Self-efficacy is the belief that an individual can achieve a goal in a particular situation, and it has an important influence on the individual's behavior, emotions, and overall q
Library & information science
Dreaming of the Internet on Paper Cards: The Mundaneum
The Mundaneum was a vast index-card archive founded in Brussels by Belgian lawyers Paul Otlet and Henri La Fontaine to gather the world’s knowledge in one place. This article cover
Chemistry
The Reaction That Slowly Eats Away at Iron: Corrosion
Corrosion is the process by which a metal reacts chemically with its surroundings, loses its original properties, and breaks down. This piece covers how iron rusts, what happens wh
Journalism & communication
The History and Development of Korean Media (From Ancient Times to the Present)
Korean media have developed in various forms over thousands of years. From ancient records and medieval methods of communication to modern digital media, the history of Korean medi
Library & information science
The Concepts of Ontology and the Semantic Web and Their Relationship
This time, we will explore the concepts of the Semantic Web, which is attracting attention as a next-generation web technology, and the related concept of ontology, as well as thei
Journalism & communication
Persuasion That Wakes Up Over Time: The Sleeper Effect
The sleeper effect is the phenomenon in which a message from a hard-to-believe source has little power at first but becomes more persuasive as time passes. We look at how it was di