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Economics

Bad Money Wins: Gresham's Law

If you had a worn, crumpled bill and a crisp new one in your wallet, which would you hand over first? This article explains Gresham's Law, the idea that bad money drives out good:

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Physics

The Secret of Walking on Water: Surface Tension

Why can a full glass of water bulge above the rim without spilling, and how do water striders walk on ponds? This article explains how surface tension arises, why water's is unusua

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Psychology

I Knew It All Along: Hindsight Bias

Hindsight bias is the mental habit of believing, after something has happened, that we could have predicted the outcome from the start. We look at the experiments that first confir

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Library & information science

The Family Tree of Research Papers: Citation Indexes

How do you find the studies that have cited a paper you are reading? This article explains how Eugene Garfield's citation index came about and what it is, how to search backward an

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Physics

Light That Knocks Out Electrons: The Photoelectric Effect

The photoelectric effect is the phenomenon in which electrons at the surface of a material such as a metal or semiconductor absorb energy from incident light and escape. This artic