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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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Journalism & communication

Why Does Only This Story Make the News? News Values

News values are the criteria that decide which events become news and how they are reported. This article covers Galtung and Ruge’s 1965 study that started the field, the main news

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General knowledge

Refuting Takes Ten Times the Effort: Brandolini's Law

Brandolini's Law is the rule of thumb that refuting a false claim takes far more effort than producing it. We look at where the law came from, why rebuttals are so hard, older insi

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Chemistry

Particles That Neither Dissolve Nor Sink: Colloids

A colloid is a mixture in which particles too small to see are evenly dispersed and suspended in another substance. This article explains how colloids differ from solutions, the co

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Journalism & communication

How the Media Shows Us the World: Agenda-Setting Theory

Every morning, when we turn on our smartphones, we encounter a flood of news articles, real-time search rankings, and social media trending tabs. On some days, a particular politic

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Food & nutrition

The Importance of Food Additives: Diversity and Functions

In modern society, food plays an indispensable role in our daily lives. Various food additives that help maintain the taste and quality of food and allow it to be stored longer hav

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Physics

Electric Whirlpools Inside Metal: Eddy Current

An eddy current is a swirling electric current induced inside a conductor such as metal by a changing magnetic field. This article covers how eddy currents arise, Lenz's law, why t