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General knowledge

How to Create a Mind Map - A Method for Generating Ideas

This time, I would like to put together material about mind mapping, a technique frequently used to discover (generate) new ideas. Whereas brainstorming, another method for generat

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Social welfare

How Vouchers, Neither Cash nor Goods, Are Changing the World

Social welfare used to be simple. It consisted entirely of delivering goods (In-kind), such as rice or instant noodles, to neighbors facing financial hardship, or depositing a set

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Earth science

The Moment an Underground Pressure Cooker Bursts: Geysers

A geyser is a hot spring that shoots out groundwater heated underground, together with steam, at regular intervals. This article covers where the name came from, the conditions gey

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Journalism & communication

A Persuasion Vaccine You Get in Advance: Inoculation Theory

Inoculation theory holds that people who meet weak counterarguments in advance and practice refuting them resist stronger persuasion later. This piece covers William J. McGuire’s 1

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Library & information science

Thesaurus — A Dictionary Showing Relationships Between Terms

This time, I would like to put together some material on thesauruses, dictionaries that show the various relationships among keywords when searching for the information you want. A

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Library & information science

Authority in Library Catalogs: Concept and Flowchart

This time, on the subject of an important concept in cataloging within resource organization theory (information organization theory), authority, I would like to prepare some mater

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Economics

Getting Sick from a Flood of Money: Dutch Disease

Dutch Disease is the phenomenon in which a sudden boom in one sector, such as natural resources, causes other export industries like manufacturing and agriculture to decline. This

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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