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Social welfare

How Vouchers, Neither Cash nor Goods, Are Changing the World

Social welfare used to be simple. It consisted entirely of delivering goods (In-kind), such as rice or instant noodles, to neighbors facing financial hardship, or depositing a set

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Film & media

Shooting Deep Night at Midday: Day for Night

Day for night is a filmmaking technique that makes scenes shot in daylight look like night. This article covers why filmmakers shoot night in the daytime, the four main ways to fak

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Logistics

Moving Road Freight onto Rails and Sea Lanes: Modal Shift

Modal shift means moving freight that used to travel mainly by truck onto modes that carry large volumes at once, such as rail and coastal shipping. This piece covers why it matter

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Information technology

Programming (Coding) Syntax Overview - Commonly Used Syntax

Programming (coding) is a language used to give instructions to a computer, and it requires following specific syntax. To this end, this material will cover various syntax elements

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Journalism & communication

Persuasion That Wakes Up Over Time: The Sleeper Effect

The sleeper effect is the phenomenon in which a message from a hard-to-believe source has little power at first but becomes more persuasive as time passes. We look at how it was di

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Library & information science

Catalog Concepts and Structure for Library MARC Work

This time, we will examine catalogs, one of the concepts frequently used in libraries. Catalogs are intended to ensure that the same book can be registered according to the same s

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Logistics

A Buffer Against Stockouts: Safety Stock

Why do warehouses hold more inventory than they expect to sell? This article explains what safety stock is and how it relates to the reorder point, how to calculate it from the ser

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Social welfare

The Right to an Ordinary Life: The Normalization Principle

What does it mean for people with disabilities to live as close as possible to the everyday life everyone else takes for granted? This article explains the normalization principle,