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Earth science

Understanding Typhoons Made Easy: Causes and Characteristics

Typhoons are among the most powerful weather phenomena created by nature, with an impact felt across the globe. Every year, countless people directly experience their force and the

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Statistics

When to Stop and Choose: The Secretary Problem

The secretary problem asks how to maximize the chance of picking the very best candidate when you must decide on each one on the spot. This article explains its rules, why the answ

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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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Economics

The Core of Microeconomics: The Game of Supply and Demand

Microeconomics is a branch of economics that analyzes the economic decisions of individuals and businesses, focusing on exploring the fundamental elements of economic activity and

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Education

A Bridge Laid Before New Knowledge: The Advance Organizer

Proposed by educational psychologist David Ausubel, an advance organizer is a broad, general idea presented before new material so it can connect to what learners already know. Thi

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Library & information science

The Family Tree of Research Papers: Citation Indexes

How do you find the studies that have cited a paper you are reading? This article explains how Eugene Garfield's citation index came about and what it is, how to search backward an

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General knowledge

The Research Process in the Social Sciences (Procedures)

This time, I would like to put together material on the process through which research in the social sciences is conducted. Unlike natural science research, which studies matter th