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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
General knowledge
Why does trying to hide information make it spread even further? This article covers the 2003 lawsuit that gave the Streisand effect its name, four reasons suppression backfires, w
Film & media
Why does a slightly tilted frame make us uneasy? This article covers what the Dutch angle is, its roots in German Expressionism and the origin of its name, how film and TV have use
Journalism & communication
Why do opposing sides both feel the same news report is biased against them? This article covers the 1985 Vallone, Ross and Lepper study, why the effect occurs, how it shows up in
Psychology
Where does the feeling that nothing you do will work come from? This article covers Seligman's experiments, attributional style, how neuroscience overturned the explanation in 2016
Food & nutrition
What is the deep, savory taste that is neither salty nor sweet? This article covers umami from Kikunae Ikeda's discovery to glutamate, inosinate and guanylate, the synergy effect,
Social welfare
What if everyone received the same money every month, no questions asked? This article covers the origins of basic income from More and Paine, its five defining features, experimen
Physics
Why does a free kick bend and a curveball drop? This article covers Newton's tennis ball, Magnus's cylinder experiment, the pressure difference created by spin, its uses in sports
Logistics
How do milk and vaccines reach us while staying cold? This article covers the history of the cold chain from ice-packed shipping to refrigerated trucks, its four stages and tempera
Library & information science
Why do a small number of researchers write so many papers? This article covers the inverse square law Lotka identified in 1926, its uses in bibliometrics, and its limits, such as e
Robotics
How do robot arms and drones stop right at their target? This article covers the history of PID control starting with Minorsky, the roles of the proportional, integral and derivati
Design
Why do sites we use for the first time still feel easy? This article explains the origin of Jakob's law as stated by Jakob Nielsen, the principles of mental models and conventions,
