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Film & media

Teleporting in Front of a Green Wall: Chroma Key

Chroma key is a video compositing technique that makes one color on screen transparent and layers another background in its place. This piece covers how it works, its history from

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Statistics

An Easy Guide to Probability Sampling Methods

Probability sampling randomly selects cases so that every member of a population has a known probability greater than zero of being chosen for the sample; these probabilities need

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Food & nutrition

Water and Oil as One: Emulsion

An emulsion keeps immiscible liquids together as tiny droplets with the help of emulsifiers. From mayonnaise and milk to butter, this piece walks through O/W and W/O types, Bancrof

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Physics

Proof That the Earth Turns: The Foucault Pendulum

The Foucault Pendulum is a device that shows the Earth's rotation with your own eyes: a heavy bob on a very long wire whose plane of swing slowly turns relative to the ground. We l

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Business administration

Small Fixes Add Up to a Big Difference: Kaizen

Kaizen is a management approach in which everyone on the front line keeps making small improvements instead of one grand change. This article covers what the word means and where i

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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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Library & information science

Knowledge Hidden Outside Formal Publishing: Grey Literature

Government reports, theses, conference papers and working papers: what grey literature is, where the term came from, why research needs it, and why it is so hard to find and preser