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Information technology

Slowing Down Faster Than Hardware Speeds Up: Wirth’s Law

Wirth’s Law is the rule of thumb that software gets slower faster than hardware gets faster. This piece covers where it came from, why software keeps getting heavier, examples arou

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Psychology

Overcoming Impostor Syndrome: How to Regain Your Confidence

In modern society, many people experience difficulty fully acknowledging their own success and feel as though their achievements were obtained through deception. This phenomenon is

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Chemistry

Mirror-Image Twin Molecules: Chirality

Chirality is the property of an object or molecule that cannot be superimposed on its own mirror image. This article covers the basic definition of chirality, how mirror-image mole

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Psychology

I Knew It All Along: Hindsight Bias

Hindsight bias is the mental habit of believing, after something has happened, that we could have predicted the outcome from the start. We look at the experiments that first confir

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Business administration

The Shift Toward Marketing 4C and Its Stages

This time, I would like to put together material on marketing 4C, a marketing concept in business administration. The existing marketing mix, known as 4P, had the traditional 4 sta

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Education

Metacognition: The Power of Knowing What You Know

Even when learners study the same materials for the same amount of time, their results differ markedly. In the past, academics often dismissed these differences as simply a matter

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General knowledge

The Older It Is, the Longer It Lasts: The Lindy Effect

Why do things that have already lasted a long time tend to last even longer? This article explains where the name Lindy Effect came from, what kinds of things it applies to, how to

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Food & nutrition

When Nuttiness Turns Stale: Rancidity

Rancidity is the process in which the fats in food break down by reacting with oxygen, water, or enzymes, producing unpleasant smells and flavors and lowering quality. We look at i