Earth science
The Coriolis Effect: What It Is and How It Affects Us
The Coriolis effect is the phenomenon in which Earth's rotation alters the paths of moving objects. This article looks in detail at its definition and principle, its influence on w
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Design
Design That Shows You What to Do: Affordance
Affordance is the relationship in which an object’s physical and perceptual characteristics suggest what actions a user can take. This article covers its origins, perceived afforda
Economics
Commodities Driving the Global Economy: An Analysis of Markets and Impacts
Commodities are a central component of the global economy, encompassing resources that significantly affect various industries and markets. A wide range of commodities, including c
Economics
Gross Domestic Product (GDP): The Key to Understanding Economic Growth
Gross domestic product (GDP) is one of the most important indicators in modern economics, used to measure the size and growth of a country's economy. By capturing the sum of a coun
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
Robotics
The Machine That Crawled After Light: Grey Walter’s Tortoises
Grey Walter’s Tortoises were small robots built in the late 1940s by British neurophysiologist William Grey Walter that explored their surroundings on their own using just two vacu
Robotics
Reaction Before Thought: Subsumption Architecture
Subsumption architecture is a robot control method in which simple behavior layers are stacked from the bottom up and higher layers override lower ones when needed. This article co
Film & media
The Principles of VFX, Required Technologies, and the Evolution of CG
VFX(Visual Effects) is an important technology widely used in modern film, games, advertising, and various media industries. VFX uses computer graphics and animation to create and
Chemistry
Particles That Neither Dissolve Nor Sink: Colloids
A colloid is a mixture in which particles too small to see are evenly dispersed and suspended in another substance. This article explains how colloids differ from solutions, the co
Library & information science
The Words We Use Most Are Always Few: Zipf's Law
Why do a handful of words appear on every page while most words show up only once or twice? This article covers how Zipf's Law became known, the inverse relationship between rank a
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
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