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Information technology

Start Small to Run Big: Gall's Law

Gall's Law says that a complex system that works has always evolved from a simple system that worked. We look at where it came from, what its three sentences mean, real examples, a

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Education

The Secret of Learning That Lasts: Desirable Difficulty

Why is what we learn easily so easily forgotten? This article explains desirable difficulty, as described by Robert Bjork, covering its meaning and origins, learning methods such a

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Film & media

The Power of Scenes That Run Without a Cut: The Long Take

What effects does a long take, filming one scene at length without editing, create? This article covers what a long take is, Bazin's ideas, realism and tension, examples such as Ro

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Tourism studies

A Young Aristocrat's Graduation Trip: The Grand Tour

The Grand Tour was the long educational journey around continental Europe that young English aristocrats took with a tutor from about 1660 to the 1840s. This piece covers the origi

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General knowledge

Anything That Can Go Wrong Will Go Wrong: Murphy's Law

Murphy's Law is the rule of thumb that anything that can go wrong eventually will. This piece covers its origins in the U.S. Air Force's MX981 rocket sled tests and Edward Murphy's

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Design

Tricks That Make You Click: Dark Patterns

Dark patterns are screen designs that use layout, color, and wording to trick or push users into actions they would not have taken if they had fully understood or been free to choo

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Chemistry

Batteries: Chemical Structures That Store Energy

From the smartphone we check as soon as we open our eyes each morning to electric cars quietly passing along the street, laptops, and power banks, the daily lives of people today w

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Journalism & communication

How the Media Shows Us the World: Agenda-Setting Theory

Every morning, when we turn on our smartphones, we encounter a flood of news articles, real-time search rankings, and social media trending tabs. On some days, a particular politic