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Library & information science

The Power to Handle Information: Information Literacy (IL)

Information literacy is the ability to recognize what information you need, find it, evaluate it, and use it ethically. This article covers its definition and origins, the core fra

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Earth science

An Invisible Lid Over the Sky: Temperature Inversion

Why does a layer of air form that gets warmer, not colder, with height? This article explains how temperature inversions form and their types, their effects on fine dust, fog, and

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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

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Food & nutrition

Food Labels and Nutrition Facts: The Key to Healthy Choices

Food labels are tools that provide very important information when we choose foods. In modern society, healthy food choices can greatly influence our quality of life, and reading f

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Logistics

A Buffer Against Stockouts: Safety Stock

Why do warehouses hold more inventory than they expect to sell? This article explains what safety stock is and how it relates to the reorder point, how to calculate it from the ser

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Psychology

I Knew It All Along: Hindsight Bias

Hindsight bias is the mental habit of believing, after something has happened, that we could have predicted the outcome from the start. We look at the experiments that first confir

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Earth science

The Force That Pushes Continents: Plate Tectonics

Plate tectonics is the theory that Earth’s outer shell is divided into rigid plates that move over a weaker layer, causing earthquakes, volcanoes, and mountain ranges. This article

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Library & information science

Books Are for Use: The Five Laws of Library Science

The Five Laws of Library Science are five short principles, published by the Indian mathematician and librarian S. R. Ranganathan in 1931, that sum up whom and what a library exist

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Film & media

Plots for Writing Stories for Novels, TV Dramas, and Films

This time, I would like to put together material on the concept of plot, which is essential to understand when writing scripts or stories for films, TV dramas, novels, and similar