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Food & nutrition
Why does your appetite come back for dessert even when you feel too full to eat another bite? This article explains sensory-specific satiety: what it is, the brain and evolutionary
Journalism & communication
Why does the gap between those who know and those who don't widen as information floods in? This article covers what the knowledge gap hypothesis means and where it came from, why
Economics
The law of diminishing marginal utility describes how the extra satisfaction from getting one more of something keeps shrinking. We look at what marginal utility means, how the ide
Logistics
When we order something from an online store, it arrives at our doorstep with a shipping label attached. This label contains all the information needed for delivery, including the
Food & nutrition
Food processing has played an important role in addressing humanity's food supply challenges and improving nutritional status. Today, food processing is evolving beyond techniques
Statistics
The normal distribution plays a central role in statistics and data analysis. This article covers its basic concepts and characteristics, its mathematical definition and properties
Economics
The balance of payments (BOP) is a comprehensive statistical indicator that records all financial activities arising from a country's economic exchanges with other countries. This
Information technology
How did the early internet keep working despite small differences between implementations? This article covers where Postel's Law (the Robustness Principle) came from, why it matte
Statistics
Anscombe’s Quartet is a set of four datasets whose summary statistics are nearly identical but whose graphs look completely different. This piece covers how it came about, the trap
Food & nutrition
The smoke point is the temperature at which an oil or fat, when heated, begins to give off a continuous, visible bluish smoke. This article covers why oil smokes, what determines t
Information technology
Advances in AI technology are bringing new changes to our lives. We can now interact with artificial intelligence (AI) that thinks and learns like humans. Among these technologies,
Library & information science
The Matthew effect is the phenomenon in which a person or work that starts slightly ahead gains more opportunities and recognition thanks to that lead, so the gap widens over time.
