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Economics

Only the Bad Cars Remain: The Market for Lemons

Why can good products disappear from a market where buyers cannot judge quality? This article covers Akerlof's 1970 paper, how adverse selection drives good goods out, examples bey

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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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Economics

Too Invested to Quit: The Sunk Cost Fallacy

Why do we sit through a dull movie just because we paid for the ticket? This guide explains sunk costs, the bygones principle, why people fall into the sunk cost fallacy, classic e

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Information technology

The Chip That Keeps Doubling: Moore’s Law

Why have computers kept getting smaller, faster, and cheaper for more than half a century? This article explains Moore’s Law: how it began, what it really means, how it changed the

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Journalism & communication

The Social Influence and Ripple Effects of the Media

In this article, we aim to offer a realistic analysis of the media's social influence and ripple effects and examine the implications that can be drawn from it. The media play a ve

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Food & nutrition

When Nuttiness Turns Stale: Rancidity

Rancidity is the process in which the fats in food break down by reacting with oxygen, water, or enzymes, producing unpleasant smells and flavors and lowering quality. We look at i

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Social welfare

Everyone's Hour Is Worth the Same: Time Banking

Time banking is a neighborhood service-exchange system in which people earn time credits for the hours they spend helping others and use those credits to get help when they need it

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Physics

The Real Reason the Sky Is Blue: Rayleigh Scattering

Rayleigh scattering, worked out by Lord Rayleigh in 1871, is the scattering of light by particles much smaller than its wavelength, such as air molecules, and it is far stronger fo

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General knowledge

When Arguments Drag On, Hitler Shows Up: Godwin’s Law

Godwin’s Law is the internet adage that the longer an online discussion grows, the closer the probability of someone comparing others to Nazis or Hitler gets to 1. This article cov