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Design

Tricks That Make You Click: Dark Patterns

Dark patterns are screen designs that use layout, color, and wording to trick or push users into actions they would not have taken if they had fully understood or been free to choo

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Business administration

It Gets Cheaper the More You Make: The Experience Curve

The experience curve is the phenomenon in which the cost of making one unit falls by a fixed percentage every time cumulative production doubles. This piece covers its origins, fro

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Logistics

Not All Inventory Is Equal: ABC Analysis

ABC analysis divides inventory into three classes, A, B, and C, by annual usage value and manages each class with a different level of care. Learn how it emerged from Pareto and Ju

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Chemistry

A Solid That Vanishes Without Melting: Sublimation

Sublimation is the process in which a solid turns directly into a gas without passing through the liquid state. This article covers the principle and conditions behind it, everyday

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Tourism studies

Traveling to Help: Volunteer Tourism

Volunteer tourism is travel in which tourists spend part or all of their trip volunteering to help local communities or nature. We look at how it began, its main types, what travel

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Physics

Faster Flow, Lower Pressure: Bernoulli’s Principle

Bernoulli’s principle says that within a single flow, a fluid’s pressure drops where it speeds up and rises where it slows down. This piece covers how the principle came about, the

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Film & media

The Power of Scenes That Run Without a Cut: The Long Take

What effects does a long take, filming one scene at length without editing, create? This article covers what a long take is, Bazin's ideas, realism and tension, examples such as Ro

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Business administration

Watching Changes Things: The Hawthorne Effect

Why does performance often jump right after a new management practice is introduced, only to slip back later? This article explains the Hawthorne effect: its definition and the ori