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Logistics
What is the secret that lets us buy cosmetics from overseas with a single click online and put imported bananas on our breakfast tables? It is all thanks to a vast logistics system
Journalism & communication
The media plays a central role in modern society and is closely connected to our daily lives. For this reason, the media must uphold high ethical standards when communicating infor
Psychology
The Asch conformity experiments, begun by social psychologist Solomon Asch in 1951, showed that people often go along with a group’s clearly wrong answer on a simple line-length ta
Psychology
In psychology, impressions are considered a very important concept, and the first impressions we form of other people or things have a very powerful influence. These impressions gr
Social welfare
Case management is a social work practice that coordinates resources through assessment, planning, linking, monitoring, and evaluation so that people with complex needs can receive
Library & information science
Mooers’ Law is the principle that no matter how good an information retrieval system is, it will not be used where having information is more painful and troublesome than not havin
Journalism & communication
What does the press actually do for society? This article explains the main functions of the press, from providing information, acting as a watchdog, and shaping public opinion to
Earth science
The westerlies are strong winds that blow from west to east across the Earth's mid-latitudes and have a major influence on climate and weather. This article covers how the westerli
Chemistry
Inorganic chemistry is a branch of chemistry that, unlike organic chemistry, which centers on carbon, studies most elements other than carbon and their compounds. As a fundamental
Design
Miller's Law, drawn from psychologist George A. Miller's 1956 paper “The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two,” describes the limited amount of information people can hold at on
Statistics
Why is it so likely that two people in a small group share a birthday? This article covers the birthday paradox, the two keys to calculating it, why our intuition misses it, and ho
Information technology
Why doesn’t doubling your cores double your speed? Amdahl’s Law shows that the serial portion you cannot parallelize caps the overall speedup at 1/s. This piece covers the formula,
