Why is the press called the “fourth estate”? This article traces the phrase from the three estates and the press gallery of the British Parliament to Macaulay, Carlyle, and the Bur
Why does adding people to a late software project often make it even later? This article covers the origin of Brooks's Law and the illusion hidden in the man-month, why adding peop
Plog’s Psychographic Model places travelers on a spectrum from adventurous allocentrics to familiarity-seeking psychocentrics and links them to the rise and fall of destinations. T
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
Why do things that have already lasted a long time tend to last even longer? This article explains where the name Lindy Effect came from, what kinds of things it applies to, how to
The Grand Tour was the long educational journey around continental Europe that young English aristocrats took with a tutor from about 1660 to the 1840s. This piece covers the origi
This time, I will review the roles of MPEG standard families related to video, then explore the difference between codecs and file containers. MPEG emerged when the need to distrib
The Ansoff Matrix splits “what to sell (products)” and “whom to sell to (markets)” into existing and new, showing four growth strategies a company can choose along with how risky e
Many statistical techniques are used in data analysis, and the t-test is a prominent method frequently used in data analysis and research to test differences between two groups. Th
Why do people travel, and why do they choose a particular place? This article explains the origins of push-pull theory, push factors as travel motives, pull factors as destination
Link rot is the phenomenon in which web addresses, over time, no longer lead to the material they once pointed to. We look at what link rot is and why it happens, how large the pro
Distillation heats a liquid mixture, sends the more volatile components off as vapor first, then cools that vapor back into liquid to separate what was mixed. We look at its histor