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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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Logistics

Logistics That Skips the Warehouse: Cross-Docking

Cross-docking is a logistics operation in which incoming freight is not stored long-term but is sorted, transshipped, and shipped out right away. This article covers its definition

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Robotics

The First Robot Arm to Enter the Factory: Unimate

Unimate, installed at a General Motors plant in New Jersey in 1961, is regarded as the world’s first industrial robot. Learn how it grew from George Devol’s patent, how its hydraul

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Education

Metacognition: The Power of Knowing What You Know

Even when learners study the same materials for the same amount of time, their results differ markedly. In the past, academics often dismissed these differences as simply a matter

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Education

A Bridge Laid Before New Knowledge: The Advance Organizer

Proposed by educational psychologist David Ausubel, an advance organizer is a broad, general idea presented before new material so it can connect to what learners already know. Thi

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Design

White Space in Design: Creative Ways to Use Space

In design, 'white space' is often readily regarded as a simple background or empty space. In reality, however, white space (margins) is an important element that brings out creativ

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Food & nutrition

Eating by the Body Clock: Chrononutrition

Chrononutrition is the study and practice of aligning meal timing and patterns with the body’s circadian clock to understand the effects of nutrition. This article explains its con

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Psychology

Remembered by Its Peak and Its End: The Peak-End Rule

The peak-end rule is our tendency to judge a past experience mainly by its most intense moment and its final moment, rather than by its total or average. This article covers the cl

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Business administration

It Gets Cheaper the More You Make: The Experience Curve

The experience curve is the phenomenon in which the cost of making one unit falls by a fixed percentage every time cumulative production doubles. This piece covers its origins, fro