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Library & information science

Library Checkout and Return Systems: Flowcharts and Concepts

This time, I would like to put together some material about the system used to check out and return books at a library. A library's checkout and return system automates its loan-re

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Robotics

Reaching Out a Hand from Afar: Teleoperation

Teleoperation lets a person control a distant machine directly, sending their hands and eyes where people cannot safely go. This article covers its origins in 1940s–50s nuclear lab

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Logistics

The Cold Path That Must Never Break: Cold Chain Logistics

How do milk and vaccines reach us while staying cold? This article covers the history of the cold chain from ice-packed shipping to refrigerated trucks, its four stages and tempera

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Food & nutrition

Why Egg Whites Turn White and Firm: Protein Denaturation

Protein denaturation is the unraveling of a protein’s carefully folded three-dimensional structure by heat, acid, or physical force, while its amino acid sequence stays intact. Thi

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Design

We Remember Only About Seven Things: Miller's Law

Miller's Law, drawn from psychologist George A. Miller's 1956 paper “The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two,” describes the limited amount of information people can hold at on