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Food & nutrition

How to Measure Spiciness in Numbers: The Scoville Scale

The Scoville Scale expresses how hot a chili pepper is as a number, the Scoville Heat Unit (SHU). This article explains why spiciness is actually pain, how the scale is measured by

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Journalism & communication

How We Say It Changes the World: The Medium Is the Message

"The medium is the message" is Marshall McLuhan's 1964 claim that we should look at the medium itself before the content it carries. This article explains what the phrase means, Mc

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Social welfare

The Right to an Ordinary Life: The Normalization Principle

What does it mean for people with disabilities to live as close as possible to the everyday life everyone else takes for granted? This article explains the normalization principle,

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Physics

New Interpretations of Dark Energy and Cosmic Expansion

The universe is so vast that its limits are impossible to fathom, and countless mysteries lie hidden within it. Humanity has pursued research tirelessly over a long period to uncov

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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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General knowledge

How to Create a Mind Map - A Method for Generating Ideas

This time, I would like to put together material about mind mapping, a technique frequently used to discover (generate) new ideas. Whereas brainstorming, another method for generat

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Journalism & communication

Government Message Management Through the Lens of Backbriefing

In modern society, government policy announcements have a tremendous impact on people's lives. However, identifying the true intentions and strategies hidden behind these announcem

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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