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General knowledge

Staying Healthy with Seasonal Fruits Throughout the Year

Seasonal fruits are rich in the nutrients unique to each season. This article introduces the fruits recommended for spring, summer, autumn, and winter, along with their characteris

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Film & media

The Magic of Creating Cinematic Reality: Montage

How are the emotions and immersion we experience when watching films or video content created? They may come from an actor shedding tears on screen or from majestic music. Yet the

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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

The Ocean's Giant Conveyor Belt: Thermohaline Circulation

How does the ocean carry heat around the planet? This article covers how temperature and salt drive deep-ocean currents, the route of the global conveyor belt, its effects on clima

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Journalism & communication

A Custom World Only You See: The Filter Bubble

A filter bubble forms when the personalization algorithms of search engines and social media show us only the information we are likely to like, trapping us in a bubble of content

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Chemistry

Neither Liquid nor Gas: Supercritical Fluid

A supercritical fluid is a substance pushed past its critical point, where the line between liquid and gas disappears. This article explains what the critical point means, the flui

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Information technology

When Clocks Jump Back to 1901: The Year 2038 Problem

What is the Year 2038 problem? It is the glitch in which computers that store Unix time in 32 bits mistake moments after January 19, 2038, for 1901. This article covers how it work

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Film & media

Teleporting in Front of a Green Wall: Chroma Key

Chroma key is a video compositing technique that makes one color on screen transparent and layers another background in its place. This piece covers how it works, its history from