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.

778 articles found

Translated article

Food & nutrition

Killing Germs Without Boiling: Pasteurization

Pasteurization heats food below boiling to cut pathogens and spoilage microbes while keeping flavor and nutrition. This piece covers Pasteur’s wine experiments in 1864, Soxhlet’s m

Translated article

Information technology

The Interest on Rushed Code: Technical Debt

Why do the shortcuts we take for speed today come back later at a high price? This article explains technical debt, the term first used by Ward Cunningham, how interest builds up,

Translated article

Design

Design That Shows You What to Do: Affordance

Affordance is the relationship in which an object’s physical and perceptual characteristics suggest what actions a user can take. This article covers its origins, perceived afforda

Translated article

Information technology

Programming (Coding) Syntax Overview - Commonly Used Syntax

Programming (coding) is a language used to give instructions to a computer, and it requires following specific syntax. To this end, this material will cover various syntax elements

Translated article

Earth science

When the Ground Flows Like Water: Soil Liquefaction

Why does solid ground turn soft and flow like water during an earthquake? This article explains soil liquefaction, in which water-saturated sandy ground behaves like a liquid, cove

Translated article

Physics

Lifting a Car with a Small Force: Pascal’s Principle

Pascal’s principle states that pressure applied to a confined fluid at rest is transmitted undiminished throughout the fluid. We look at how it was formulated, how hydraulic device

Translated article

Library & information science

Research Cited Together Is Close: Co-citation Analysis

Co-citation analysis judges two documents to be closer in subject the more often other documents cite them together. Learn how it emerged, how co-citation strength is counted, how

Translated article

Film & media

The Grammar of Space: The 180-Degree Rule

When two people face each other in conversation on screen, we never lose track of who is sitting where, thanks to a filmmaking convention known as the 180-degree rule. This article

Translated article

Chemistry

Twin Atoms with Different Weights: Isotopes

Isotopes are atoms of the same element that differ in weight because they have different numbers of neutrons. We look at atomic structure, stable and radioactive isotopes, how carb