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Journalism & communication

Words from the Parliamentary Press Gallery: The Fourth Estate

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

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Information technology

Adding More Makes It Later: Brooks's Law

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

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Tourism studies

Who Finds a Destination First? Plog’s Psychographic Model

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

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General knowledge

The Older It Is, the Longer It Lasts: The Lindy Effect

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

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Tourism studies

A Young Aristocrat's Graduation Trip: The Grand Tour

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

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Business administration

Where Should We Grow? The Ansoff Matrix

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

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Statistics

Understanding t-Tests and How to Use Them Effectively

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

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Library & information science

The Web Address That Vanished One Day: Link Rot

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

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Chemistry

Separating by Differences in Boiling Point: Distillation

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