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Tourism studies

Where Does Tourists’ Money Go? Tourism Leakage

Why does so little of what tourists spend reach local fishermen and neighborhood restaurants? This piece explains tourism leakage: how tourism revenue reaches the local economy, im

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Earth science

Cooling Cities: Understanding and Responding to Heat Waves

Heat waves are occurring frequently around the world, and their intensity and frequency are steadily increasing. As a result, many people are experiencing health problems, and agri

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Tourism studies

Why Do Peak and Off-Peak Seasons Exist? Tourism Seasonality

Tourism seasonality is the regular bunching of visitors and spending into certain times of the year. This article covers what it is, its natural and institutional causes, the probl

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Library & information science

Research Cited Together Is Close: Co-citation Analysis

Co-citation analysis judges two documents to be closer in subject the more often other documents cite them together. Learn how it emerged, how co-citation strength is counted, how

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Physics

Lifting a Car with a Small Force: Pascal’s Principle

Pascal’s principle states that pressure applied to a confined fluid at rest is transmitted undiminished throughout the fluid. We look at how it was formulated, how hydraulic device

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General knowledge

Monitor Connectors and Ports: A Complete Connection Guide

A guide to the connectors and ports used to hook up a monitor: the difference between a connector and a port, the features of HDMI, DisplayPort, DVI, and VGA, a comparison of the m

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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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General knowledge

Suspect a Mistake Before Malice: Hanlon’s Razor

Hanlon’s Razor is a rule of thumb that says not to blame malice for what mistakes or foolishness can adequately explain. This piece covers where it came from, why we tend to read o