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Chemistry

Mirror-Image Twin Molecules: Chirality

Chirality is the property of an object or molecule that cannot be superimposed on its own mirror image. This article covers the basic definition of chirality, how mirror-image mole

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Education

Words and Pictures Stay Together: Dual Coding Theory

Dual Coding Theory holds that the mind has separate verbal and nonverbal systems, and that linking words with pictures helps us understand better and remember longer. This piece co

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Social welfare

The Right to an Ordinary Life: The Normalization Principle

What does it mean for people with disabilities to live as close as possible to the everyday life everyone else takes for granted? This article explains the normalization principle,

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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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Earth science

The Force That Pushes Continents: Plate Tectonics

Plate tectonics is the theory that Earth’s outer shell is divided into rigid plates that move over a weaker layer, causing earthquakes, volcanoes, and mountain ranges. This article

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Information technology

How to Integrate and Develop with APIs

What an API (application programming interface) is, how Korean services such as Naver, Kakao, and the Public Data Portal use APIs, how to get an API key and connect to an API, and

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Information technology

Clever Code Is Hard to Fix: Kernighan's Law

Kernighan's Law says that debugging is twice as hard as writing code, so code written as cleverly as possible can't be debugged by its own author. We look at where the line came fr

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Film & media

The Art of Shifting Only the Gaze: Rack Focus

Rack focus shifts the sharp subject within a single shot by changing the lens focus, guiding the viewer's eye without a cut. This article covers how it works, what it says in a sto

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Education

Flipped Learning: The Classroom Belongs to the Students!

In traditional education, we always see the same scene. The teacher explains diligently at the blackboard, while students sit at their desks, busy taking notes. When class ends, th