Psychology
The Illusion That Nothing Works: Learned Helplessness
Where does the feeling that nothing you do will work come from? This article covers Seligman's experiments, attributional style, how neuroscience overturned the explanation in 2016
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Statistics
The Number to Check Before the Evidence: The Base Rate Fallacy
The base rate fallacy is judging from vivid case details while ignoring how common an event usually is. This piece covers Kahneman and Tversky’s research, the cab problem, everyday
Information technology
How Compilers Work and Optimization Techniques
Compilers are essential to software development, playing the important role of converting source code written by programmers into a form that computers can understand. Compilers go
Psychology
Gaslighting: Frightening Psychological Warfare That Manipulates Another Person's Mind
Have you ever heard things like "Aren't you being too sensitive?", "I'm saying all this for your own good, so why are you acting like that?", or "When did I ever do that? You must
Business administration
Mastering the Break-Even Point (BEP): A Core Concept in Business Administration
When starting a business or launching a new business project, the metric many people fixate on first is revenue. Yet it is common to see companies and self-employed business owners
Economics
Strategies for Successful Stock Investing in Korea: Practical Experience and Lessons
The Korean stock market is constantly changing in response to global economic trends and domestic political changes, and the pace and patterns of these changes are becoming increas
Tourism studies
Where Does Tourists’ Money Go? Tourism Leakage
Why does so little of what tourists spend reach local fishermen and neighborhood restaurants? This piece explains tourism leakage: how tourism revenue reaches the local economy, im
Social welfare
When the Village Took Responsibility for Poverty: The Elizabethan Poor Law
The Elizabethan Poor Law was a 1601 English law that made each parish collect a tax to support its poor instead of leaving relief to church charity alone. Learn why it was created,
Psychology
A Balance the Mind Creates on Its Own: Cognitive Dissonance
Cognitive dissonance is the psychological discomfort that arises when contradictory beliefs, attitudes, or behaviors exist at the same time, together with the automatic process of
Physics
The Secret That Determines the Weight of the Universe: The Higgs Boson (Higgs Boson)
The universe we live in is filled with countless forms of matter. The desk in front of us, the air we breathe, and even we ourselves all have mass. But one of the most fundamental
General knowledge
The Science of Seasonal Vegetables and a Four-Season Nutrition Map
With advances in modern agricultural technology and the widespread use of protected cultivation (greenhouse growing), we live in an era when lettuce, cucumbers, and tomatoes are av
Film & media
Secrets to Writing Well-Crafted Scenarios
Scenarios are important tools that play a central role in various fields. They are widely used not only in films, television dramas, and theater, but also in areas such as business