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Education

Complete Only When the Pieces Fit: The Jigsaw Classroom

The jigsaw classroom is a cooperative learning method in which each student masters one piece of the material and teaches it to the group. This piece covers Elliot Aronson’s 1971 c

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Journalism & communication

The World Our Screens Have Cultivated: Cultivation Theory

Why does the world feel more dangerous after hours of news and crime dramas? This article explains cultivation theory, which holds that long-term, heavy media exposure gradually sh

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Statistics

The Illusion That Comes After Choosing: Berkson's Paradox

Berkson's Paradox is the phenomenon in which a false inverse relationship appears between two unrelated traits when you look only at a group filtered by some criterion. This piece

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Tourism studies

When Your Dream City Disappoints: Paris Syndrome

Paris syndrome is the severe confusion some travelers feel when a long-dreamed-of destination falls short of their expectations. We look at how the name came about, its main sympto

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Design

We Remember Only About Seven Things: Miller's Law

Miller's Law, drawn from psychologist George A. Miller's 1956 paper “The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two,” describes the limited amount of information people can hold at on

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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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Chemistry

Water Moving Across a Single Membrane: Osmosis

Why does salted cabbage release its water overnight? This article covers what osmosis is, the three factors that drive it, everyday examples, and reverse osmosis, the technology th

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General knowledge

A Preview of Major Accidents: Heinrich’s Law

Major accidents rarely happen “suddenly”; they are usually preceded by many small warning signs. This article explains Heinrich’s Law (the 1:29:300 rule), its domino theory, later