Economics
Inflation: A Crisis or a Temporary Phenomenon?
Inflation is one of the major issues in the modern economy, and discussions about its impact and causes continue unabated. In particular, recent global economic conditions have pro
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Film & media
Teleporting in Front of a Green Wall: Chroma Key
Chroma key is a video compositing technique that makes one color on screen transparent and layers another background in its place. This piece covers how it works, its history from
Psychology
Hearing Your Name Through the Noise: The Cocktail Party Effect
The cocktail party effect is our ability to focus on one voice amid many overlapping sounds while still reacting to important information, such as our own name, in the sounds we ar
Statistics
When Chance Adds Up to Order: The Law of Large Numbers
Why does the share of heads get closer to half the more times you toss a coin? This article explains the meaning and principle of the law of large numbers, its history beginning wi
Economics
The Numbers Went Up but Life Got Tighter: Money Illusion
Money illusion is the mistake of judging gains and losses by the face value of money rather than its real purchasing power. This article covers nominal versus real value, the famou
Economics
The Tug-of-War Between Prices and Jobs: The Phillips Curve
The Phillips curve shows an inverse relationship between unemployment and the pace at which wages and prices rise. This article covers what Phillips found, how the curve was used i
Physics
The Secret Behind How Sunglasses Erase Glare: Polarization of Light
Polarization of light is the state in which light’s vibrations are lined up in one direction. This article covers how polarization works, including Malus’s law, the three ways ligh
Tourism studies
A New Balance Between Life and Work: Everything About Workations
In modern society, the boundary between work and rest is changing rapidly. While the binary idea of working when it is time to work and resting when it is time to rest once prevail
Education
Complete Only When the Pieces Fit: The Jigsaw Classroom
The jigsaw classroom is a cooperative learning method in which each student masters one piece of the material and teaches it to the group. This piece covers Elliot Aronson’s 1971 c
Information technology
Certain No, Maybe Yes: The Bloom Filter
A Bloom filter is a probabilistic data structure that uses a tiny bit array to tell you a value is definitely not in a set. This article covers where it came from, how adding and c
Statistics
Why Your Friends Have More Friends Than You: The Friendship Paradox
The friendship paradox is the phenomenon in which most people's friends have, on average, more friends than they do. This article explains why it happens with a simple calculation,
Physics
The Core of Future Technology: Revolutionary Changes Brought About by Quantum Mechanics
Modern science plays a central role in understanding the various phenomena we encounter in everyday life and developing new technologies based on that understanding. Among its theo