Skip to content
GK LibraryA home for curious minds
English
Browse articles

Articles to explore

You are browsing the English interface. Articles without a published translation are clearly marked and open in Korean.

810 articles found

Translated article

Physics

Electric Whirlpools Inside Metal: Eddy Current

An eddy current is a swirling electric current induced inside a conductor such as metal by a changing magnetic field. This article covers how eddy currents arise, Lenz's law, why t

Translated article

Tourism studies

Who Finds a Destination First? Plog’s Psychographic Model

Plog’s Psychographic Model places travelers on a spectrum from adventurous allocentrics to familiarity-seeking psychocentrics and links them to the rise and fall of destinations. T

Translated article

Physics

Water Droplets Floating on Vapor: The Leidenfrost Effect

Why does a drop of water skate across a very hot pan and last longer than on a merely warm one? This article explains the Leidenfrost effect, from the vapor cushion that lifts the

Translated article

Film & media

The Camera That Circles Frozen Time: Bullet Time

Bullet time is a visual effect in which time seems to slow down or stop while the camera keeps moving around the scene at normal speed. This article explains how it differs from sl

Translated article

Psychology

The Trap of Words That Fit Everyone: The Barnum Effect

The Barnum effect is our tendency to accept vague personality descriptions that fit almost anyone as accurate analyses of ourselves. This piece covers where the name came from, P.

Translated article

Earth science

Lightning and Thunder: Electrical Phenomena in Nature

Lightning is one of the most remarkable electrical phenomena produced by nature. The moment lightning flashes is not only visually beautiful but also conceals complex scientific pr