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Earth science

The Science of Clouds: Reading the Signals in the Sky

Clouds are a familiar sight, yet few people understand how they form, what kinds there are, and what each one tells us. This article explains the principles of cloud formation, the

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General knowledge

Loud Expectations and Quiet Change: Amara's Law

Amara's Law says we tend to overestimate the effect of a new technology in the short run and underestimate it in the long run. This article covers where the saying came from, why t

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Chemistry

Batteries: Chemical Structures That Store Energy

From the smartphone we check as soon as we open our eyes each morning to electric cars quietly passing along the street, laptops, and power banks, the daily lives of people today w

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Social welfare

The Power That Connects Services: Case Management

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

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Robotics

The Number of Joints Shapes Movement: Degrees of Freedom

What determines how a robot can move? This article explains degrees of freedom, covering what the term means, how six-axis industrial robot arms work, the degrees of freedom of the

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Journalism & communication

The Thoughts That Come After the News: Media Priming

Media priming is the phenomenon in which issues the media highlights become the standards we use to judge people and policies later. From Iyengar and Kinder’s 1987 experiments and