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General knowledge

Causes of Car Battery Discharge and How to Jump-Start a Car

The car battery is one of a vehicle's key components, playing an important role in supplying power to start the engine, operate electronic devices, and run various electrical compo

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Film & media

Key Secrets to Producing Polished Videos

Effective video production plays a very important role in modern digital marketing and content strategy. Simply picking up a camera and filming is not enough to create successful c

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Film & media

The Most Beautiful Light of the Day: Magic Hour

Magic hour is the short stretch just after sunrise or just before sunset when light turns red and soft. We look at why the light changes, a landmark example from film history, shoo

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Physics

A Thunderclap from a Clear Sky: The Sonic Boom

A sonic boom is the loud sound made when the shock waves created by an object moving faster than sound reach the ground. This article explains how sonic booms form, the small sonic

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Physics

Why Cold Coffee Never Warms Back Up: Entropy

Entropy is a quantity that captures why nature flows in only one direction. This article covers its origin with Clausius, the Second Law of Thermodynamics, Boltzmann's probabilisti

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Earth science

When the Ground Flows Like Water: Soil Liquefaction

Why does solid ground turn soft and flow like water during an earthquake? This article explains soil liquefaction, in which water-saturated sandy ground behaves like a liquid, cove

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Design

Typography Design Elements and Considerations

This time, I would like to write about typography design, which requires consideration of how to make lettering beautiful while also conveying its content effectively. We will look

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General knowledge

A Preview of Major Accidents: Heinrich’s Law

Major accidents rarely happen “suddenly”; they are usually preceded by many small warning signs. This article explains Heinrich’s Law (the 1:29:300 rule), its domino theory, later

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Library & information science

One Number for Papers and Citations: The h-index

The h-index folds the number of papers and the number of citations into a single figure. This article covers how to calculate it, what it measures and its strengths, its limits acr

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Business administration

Small Fixes Add Up to a Big Difference: Kaizen

Kaizen is a management approach in which everyone on the front line keeps making small improvements instead of one grand change. This article covers what the word means and where i