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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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Design

The More Choices, the Slower the Decision: Hick's Law

Why do decisions take longer the more options there are? This article explains Hick's Law, covering its meaning and origins in a lamp experiment, decision time that grows logarithm

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Business administration

The PDCA Cycle for Achieving Goals

This time, I would like to prepare material on the PDCA cycle for achieving goals and improving organizations. PDCA (plan–do–check–act) is a method for managing production, quality

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Film & media

The Grammar of Space: The 180-Degree Rule

When two people face each other in conversation on screen, we never lose track of who is sitting where, thanks to a filmmaking convention known as the 180-degree rule. This article

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Robotics

The Number of Joints Shapes Movement: Degrees of Freedom

What determines how a robot can move? This article explains degrees of freedom, covering what the term means, how six-axis industrial robot arms work, the degrees of freedom of the

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General knowledge

Suspect a Mistake Before Malice: Hanlon’s Razor

Hanlon’s Razor is a rule of thumb that says not to blame malice for what mistakes or foolishness can adequately explain. This piece covers where it came from, why we tend to read o