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Earth science
Natural disasters can cause enormous harm to human lives and property, and landslides pose a particularly serious risk among them. Because landslides occur alongside sudden changes
Information technology
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
Information technology
Drones are used in more and more fields, from the military to commercial, industrial, and personal use. This article explains what drones are, where they are used, the key technolo
Social welfare
Time banking is a neighborhood service-exchange system in which people earn time credits for the hours they spend helping others and use those credits to get help when they need it
Tourism studies
Slow travel is a way of traveling in which you stay in one place for a long time and experience it at a pace close to everyday life, rather than brushing past many places in a shor
Logistics
Why does steady consumer demand turn into wild swings in orders further up the supply chain? This article explains how the bullwhip effect works, its four main causes, the Beer Gam
Library & information science
We live in an age of 'information overload,' with an enormous amount of information and books pouring out every day. Everyone has probably experienced feeling overwhelmed about whi
Information technology
HTML is short for Hyper Text Markup Language and is one of the languages needed to create websites. Here, HTML mainly uses the concept of tags to create web documents, and this art
Psychology
Psychology uses the concepts of personal space and territory to study how we perceive and try to protect our physical and emotional space. Personal space and territory are importan
Statistics
The secretary problem asks how to maximize the chance of picking the very best candidate when you must decide on each one on the spot. This article explains its rules, why the answ
Statistics
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
Journalism & communication
Parasocial interaction is the one-sided sense of face-to-face closeness we feel with media figures who don’t know us. This piece covers Horton and Wohl’s 1956 concept, the differen
