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Economics

Saving More, Using More: The Jevons Paradox

The Jevons paradox is the phenomenon in which improving the efficiency of resource use ends up increasing total consumption. This piece covers its origins in Jevons’s The Coal Ques

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Design

Familiarity Drawn to Look Real: Skeuomorphism

Skeuomorphism is a design approach that keeps the look of old objects on new products so they feel familiar. This piece covers the word’s Greek roots and archaeological origins, ev

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Information technology

Certain No, Maybe Yes: The Bloom Filter

A Bloom filter is a probabilistic data structure that uses a tiny bit array to tell you a value is definitely not in a set. This article covers where it came from, how adding and c

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Statistics

Maximizing Practical Use Through Data Correlation Analysis

Data analysis has become an important tool in the modern business environment. In particular, data correlation analysis plays a key role in understanding relationships among multip

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Food & nutrition

The Science of Delicious Browning: The Maillard Reaction

Why do bread crusts and grilled meat turn brown and taste so savory? This article explains what the Maillard reaction is and how it works, conditions such as temperature, moisture,

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Earth science

Black Chimneys Under the Sea: Hydrothermal Vents

Thousands of meters down, where sunlight never reaches, chimneys pour out black smoke and life crowds around them. This article explains how hydrothermal vents were discovered, how

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Business administration

Strategies for Efficient Task Force (TF) Operations

Efficient problem solving is one of the challenges commonly faced by many organizations and businesses. To address such problems, many organizations have recently been using specia

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Library & information science

Research Cited Together Is Close: Co-citation Analysis

Co-citation analysis judges two documents to be closer in subject the more often other documents cite them together. Learn how it emerged, how co-citation strength is counted, how