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Tourism studies

How Welcome Turns to Resentment: Doxey's Irritation Index

Why do residents' smiles toward tourists turn into sighs as tourism grows? This article covers the background of Doxey's Irritation Index, its four stages of euphoria, apathy, anno

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Physics

Why Cold Coffee Never Warms Back Up: Entropy

Entropy is a quantity that captures why nature flows in only one direction. This article covers its origin with Clausius, the Second Law of Thermodynamics, Boltzmann's probabilisti

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Food & nutrition

The Secret of Foods That Don't Spoil: Water Activity

Why doesn't honey spoil easily even though it contains water? This article explains water activity, a measure of the free water in food, and how it is measured, the limits below wh

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Earth science

When the Whole Planet Froze Over: Snowball Earth

Snowball Earth is the hypothesis that Earth’s surface was once almost entirely covered in ice during the Cryogenian Period. This article explains how the idea arose, the ice-albedo