The sleeper effect is the phenomenon in which a message from a hard-to-believe source has little power at first but becomes more persuasive as time passes. We look at how it was di
With advances in video production and streaming technology, we can now easily access high-quality video. However, many people still do not clearly understand the important factors
P-hacking is the practice of analysing data in different ways until a “statistically significant” result appears. We look at what p-values mean, the common ways p-hacking happens,
Air pressure shapes our weather and is something we feel in everyday life. This article covers the basic concept of air pressure, the role and importance of atmospheric pressure, t
When we picture a huge warehouse, we often think only of seemingly endless floor space. Yet the real innovation in modern logistics begins with the use of vertical space reaching t
The Producer Price Index (PPI) is an economic indicator and an important tool for measuring changes in the prices of goods and services that producers supply to the market. It does
The inverted pyramid is a way of writing news that puts the conclusion and key facts first and places less important information further back. This piece covers how it is structure
The Economic Order Quantity (EOQ), presented by Ford W. Harris in 1913, is the order size that minimizes the sum of fixed ordering costs and inventory holding costs when demand is
A guide to the connectors and ports used to hook up a monitor: the difference between a connector and a port, the features of HDMI, DisplayPort, DVI, and VGA, a comparison of the m
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
This time, we will explore the concepts of the Semantic Web, which is attracting attention as a next-generation web technology, and the related concept of ontology, as well as thei
Why does trying to hide information make it spread even further? This article covers the 2003 lawsuit that gave the Streisand effect its name, four reasons suppression backfires, w