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Information technology

Wearable Devices: Smart Technology Revolutionizing the Future

Modern society is experiencing rapid technological advances, and wearable devices stand out as an innovative technology bringing significant changes to various aspects of our lives

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Chemistry

Separating by Differences in Boiling Point: Distillation

Distillation heats a liquid mixture, sends the more volatile components off as vapor first, then cools that vapor back into liquid to separate what was mixed. We look at its histor

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Business administration

The Option That Changes Your Choice: The Decoy Effect

The decoy effect is when a deliberately less attractive option makes another product look better. This piece explains asymmetric dominance from Huber, Payne and Puto’s 1982 study,

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Business administration

How to Maximize Market Opportunities Through PEST Analysis

Systematically analyzing a company's external environment is very important when developing a business strategy. One widely used tool for analyzing this external environment is PES

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Earth science

The Whole Sea Comes Rushing In: Tsunami

A tsunami is a series of giant, very long waves created when a huge volume of seawater is displaced at once by an undersea earthquake, landslide, or volcanic eruption. This piece c

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Economics

Saving More, Using More: The Jevons Paradox

The Jevons paradox is the phenomenon in which improving the efficiency of resource use ends up increasing total consumption. This piece covers its origins in Jevons’s The Coal Ques

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General knowledge

Staying Healthy with Seasonal Fruits Throughout the Year

Seasonal fruits are rich in the nutrients unique to each season. This article introduces the fruits recommended for spring, summer, autumn, and winter, along with their characteris

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Social welfare

A Blueprint That Took On Five Giants: The Beveridge Report

The Beveridge Report, published in Britain in 1942 during the Second World War, proposed rebuilding postwar welfare around flat-rate social insurance for every citizen. This piece

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Design

Design That Shows You What to Do: Affordance

Affordance is the relationship in which an object’s physical and perceptual characteristics suggest what actions a user can take. This article covers its origins, perceived afforda