Logistics
The Logistics Behind the Order Button: Order Fulfillment
Order fulfillment covers everything from the moment an order is received until the customer holds the product. This article explains what fulfillment means, its step-by-step flow,
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Psychology
More Precious When You Build It Yourself: The IKEA Effect
The IKEA effect is the cognitive bias that leads people to value things they made or assembled themselves far more than they are actually worth. This article covers how the effect
Film & media
Teleporting in Front of a Green Wall: Chroma Key
Chroma key is a video compositing technique that makes one color on screen transparent and layers another background in its place. This piece covers how it works, its history from
Physics
Superconductors Open New Horizons in Technology
Superconductors are materials whose electrical resistance becomes 0, meaning that current can flow without energy loss. Thanks to this property, superconductors offer possibilities
Food & nutrition
The Science of Sugar Turning Brown: Caramelization
Caramelization is the reaction in which sugar, heated to high temperatures, breaks down and recombines into brown compounds and aroma molecules. We look at how it works, the temper
General knowledge
Suspect a Mistake Before Malice: Hanlon’s Razor
Hanlon’s Razor is a rule of thumb that says not to blame malice for what mistakes or foolishness can adequately explain. This piece covers where it came from, why we tend to read o
Robotics
The Robot That Walks Without Trying: Passive Dynamic Walking
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
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
General knowledge
A Way of Thinking That Shaves Off Assumptions: Occam’s Razor
Occam’s Razor is the methodological guideline that, when several hypotheses explain the same phenomenon, we should favor the one that adds no unnecessary assumptions. This article
Information technology
How to Integrate and Develop with APIs
What an API (application programming interface) is, how Korean services such as Naver, Kakao, and the Public Data Portal use APIs, how to get an API key and connect to an API, and
Chemistry
Why Bubbles Fizz When You Open the Lid: Henry's Law
Henry's law says that the amount of gas dissolved in a liquid is proportional to the pressure of the gas above it. This article covers why a soda fizzes when opened, what happens i
Information technology
Slowing Down Faster Than Hardware Speeds Up: Wirth’s Law
Wirth’s Law is the rule of thumb that software gets slower faster than hardware gets faster. This piece covers where it came from, why software keeps getting heavier, examples arou