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Tourism studies

Traveling to Help: Volunteer Tourism

Volunteer tourism is travel in which tourists spend part or all of their trip volunteering to help local communities or nature. We look at how it began, its main types, what travel

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Physics

The Secret of Floating Iron Ships: Archimedes' Principle

An object in a fluid is buoyed up by the weight of the fluid it displaces. This piece explains Archimedes’ principle, why buoyancy comes from pressure differences with depth, when

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Library & information science

Authority in Library Catalogs: Concept and Flowchart

This time, on the subject of an important concept in cataloging within resource organization theory (information organization theory), authority, I would like to prepare some mater

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Education

Words and Pictures Stay Together: Dual Coding Theory

Dual Coding Theory holds that the mind has separate verbal and nonverbal systems, and that linking words with pictures helps us understand better and remember longer. This piece co

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Film & media

A Gaze That Tilts the World: The Dutch Angle

Why does a slightly tilted frame make us uneasy? This article covers what the Dutch angle is, its roots in German Expressionism and the origin of its name, how film and TV have use

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Physics

Superconductors Open New Horizons in Technology

Superconductors are materials whose electrical resistance becomes 0, meaning that current can flow without energy loss. Thanks to this property, superconductors offer possibilities