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General knowledge
The Guinness Book of Records, officially known as Guinness World Records, is a chronicle that brings together the world's most diverse records, reflecting humanity's tireless spiri
Tourism studies
Film-induced tourism is travel to the filming locations of movies and dramas, or to studios and theme parks based on screen works. This article covers why it happens, famous exampl
Library & information science
Library anxiety is the discomfort, worry, and fear people feel when they need to find and use materials in a library, and the urge to avoid asking for help that comes with it. This
Food & nutrition
Today's dining tables are more varied and delicious than ever. Crispy fried chicken, golden-brown grilled pork belly, and bread that is crisp outside and moist inside. But behind t
Robotics
Passive dynamic walking is the idea that a machine can walk using only gravity and inertia, with no motors or controllers, as long as its body shape and weight distribution are rig
Tourism studies
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
Logistics
Cross-docking is a logistics operation in which incoming freight is not stored long-term but is sorted, transshipped, and shipped out right away. This article covers its definition
Psychology
The Asch conformity experiments, begun by social psychologist Solomon Asch in 1951, showed that people often go along with a group’s clearly wrong answer on a simple line-length ta
Journalism & communication
How do you write a press release or news article that busy readers will actually take in? This article covers the basics of article writing, the inverted pyramid, pyramid, and diam
Information technology
A deadlock is a state in which several programs each wait for a resource the other holds, so none of them can move forward. This article covers how deadlocks arise, the four Coffma
Physics
Classical mechanics is an important foundational field of physics that explains the relationship between the motion of objects and the forces acting on them. Developed on the basis
Food & nutrition
Pasteurization heats food below boiling to cut pathogens and spoilage microbes while keeping flavor and nutrition. This piece covers Pasteur’s wine experiments in 1864, Soxhlet’s m
