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General knowledge

Safe Driving Guide: Accident Prevention and Essential Checks

Safe driving is an essential virtue for every driver and an important responsibility for protecting one's own safety and that of others. With traffic accidents increasing recently,

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Design

Widen, Then Narrow, Twice Over: The Double Diamond

The Double Diamond is a model that draws the design process as two diamonds side by side. This article covers what the two diamonds mean, the Discover and Define phases, the Develo

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Information technology

Cloud Computing: Understanding Its Concepts and Principles

Cloud computing is a concept that has become an essential technology in the modern IT industry. It allows businesses and individuals to easily access various computing resources ov

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Journalism & communication

News Staged for the Camera: The Pseudo-Event

A pseudo-event is an event planned and staged so that it will be reported and widely publicized, rather than one that happens on its own. This article covers the concept introduced

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General knowledge

Long Talk Only on Easy Things: The Law of Triviality

Why does a contract worth hundreds of millions of won pass in minutes while the office coffee takes an hour? This article explains Parkinson’s Law of Triviality, why people talk mo

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Economics

Getting Sick from a Flood of Money: Dutch Disease

Dutch Disease is the phenomenon in which a sudden boom in one sector, such as natural resources, causes other export industries like manufacturing and agriculture to decline. This

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Business administration

Watching Changes Things: The Hawthorne Effect

Why does performance often jump right after a new management practice is introduced, only to slip back later? This article explains the Hawthorne effect: its definition and the ori

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Psychology

When Your Eyes Change What You Hear: The McGurk Effect

The McGurk effect is an illusion in which a mismatch between the sound you hear and the lip movements you see makes you hear a sound that was never actually spoken. This article co