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Earth science

The Rhythm of the Ice Ages: Milankovitch Cycles

Why has Earth swung back and forth between glacial and interglacial periods? This article explains the Milankovitch cycles, the slow but regular changes in Earth's orbit and axis:

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Education

Adults Learn Differently: Andragogy

Andragogy is the art and science of helping adults learn. This article covers how the idea emerged, Malcolm Knowles’s six assumptions about adult learners, examples from everyday l

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Psychology

I Knew It All Along: Hindsight Bias

Hindsight bias is the mental habit of believing, after something has happened, that we could have predicted the outcome from the start. We look at the experiments that first confir

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Library & information science

KORMARC (Korean Machine-Readable Cataloging) Tag Reference

This time, I would like to write about MARC, which is used in libraries. MARC and cataloging cover such an extensive range of material that I plan to divide the discussion into sev

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Statistics

The Rule Hidden in the First Digit: Benford's Law

In many naturally occurring sets of numbers, smaller leading digits appear far more often: about 30.1% start with 1, and only about 4.6% with 9. This article explains the definitio

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Film & media

Plots for Writing Stories for Novels, TV Dramas, and Films

This time, I would like to put together material on the concept of plot, which is essential to understand when writing scripts or stories for films, TV dramas, novels, and similar

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Chemistry

Same Heat Either Way: Hess's Law

Whether a chemical reaction takes one step or many, the total heat is the same if the start and finish match. This article covers who Hess was, why the law holds, how to calculate