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Psychology
Self-efficacy is the belief that an individual can achieve a goal in a particular situation, and it has an important influence on the individual's behavior, emotions, and overall q
General knowledge
Understanding and caring for a dog's traits and behavior is an important task for every dog owner. This guide covers dogs' physical and physiological characteristics, the distincti
Food & nutrition
Pasteurization heats food below boiling to cut pathogens and spoilage microbes while keeping flavor and nutrition. This piece covers Pasteur’s wine experiments in 1864, Soxhlet’s m
Earth science
A volcanic winter is a drop in global temperatures lasting several years after a huge, sulfur-rich eruption spreads tiny sulfuric acid droplets through the stratosphere and blocks
Statistics
Why do conclusions drawn only from what survived so often mislead us? This article explains survivorship bias: what it is and how it arises, the story of the World War II bombers,
General knowledge
Godwin’s Law is the internet adage that the longer an online discussion grows, the closer the probability of someone comparing others to Nazis or Hitler gets to 1. This article cov
Library & information science
This time, I would like to put together some material about the system used to check out and return books at a library. A library's checkout and return system automates its loan-re
Food & nutrition
The Scoville Scale expresses how hot a chili pepper is as a number, the Scoville Heat Unit (SHU). This article explains why spiciness is actually pain, how the scale is measured by
Education
Educational philosophy is an academic field that identifies the nature and values of education and offers practical direction through systematic, in-depth inquiry into its purposes
Business administration
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
Journalism & communication
This time, we will explore frames, one of the concepts addressed in journalism studies. We will look at what frames are and what role they play. Journalism studies is an academic f
Psychology
The self (ego) is one of the most important concepts in human psychology and a key element in understanding an individual's identity and self-awareness. The self (ego) goes beyond
