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Food & nutrition

The Secret Behind Chewy Dough: Gluten

Gluten is a net-like mass of protein that forms when two wheat proteins meet water and become entangled. We look at how it forms, how flour types differ, the cooking tricks that st

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Tourism studies

Too Much and It Collapses: Tourism Carrying Capacity

Tourism carrying capacity is the maximum number of visitors a place can receive without seriously harming its environment, residents, or the visitor experience. This piece covers i

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Education

Complete Only When the Pieces Fit: The Jigsaw Classroom

The jigsaw classroom is a cooperative learning method in which each student masters one piece of the material and teaches it to the group. This piece covers Elliot Aronson’s 1971 c

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Library & information science

Splitting a Subject into Many Sides: Faceted Classification

Faceted classification divides a subject into non-overlapping aspects and combines their symbols into one class number. This piece covers enumerative versus analytico-synthetic cla

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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