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Social welfare
Bringing Scattered Charity Together: The Charity Organization Society
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Journalism & communication
Why Does Only This Story Make the News? News Values
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Information technology
Bugs Reveal Themselves When You Talk: Rubber Duck Debugging
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684
Earth science
The Moment an Underground Pressure Cooker Bursts: Geysers
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685
Economics
The More You Save, the Poorer the Economy: The Paradox of Thrift
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Design
We Remember Only About Seven Things: Miller's Law
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Physics
A Thunderclap from a Clear Sky: The Sonic Boom
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Information technology
Confirming the Confirmation Never Ends: The Two Generals’ Problem
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Social welfare
When the Village Took Responsibility for Poverty: The Elizabethan Poor Law
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Design
Tricks That Make You Click: Dark Patterns
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Robotics
Three Promises Robots Must Keep: Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics
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Psychology
Hearing Your Name Through the Noise: The Cocktail Party Effect
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Information technology
Less Power as They Shrank: Dennard Scaling
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Earth science
A Band of Water Vapor Flowing Through the Sky: Atmospheric Rivers
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Psychology
Following the Majority Even When It Is Wrong: The Asch Conformity Experiments
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Film & media
A Composition That Divides the Frame into Nine: The Rule of Thirds
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Business administration
Why People Pay After Using It for Free: Freemium
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Food & nutrition
The Temperature at Which Oil Starts to Smoke: Smoke Point
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Journalism & communication
News Staged for the Camera: The Pseudo-Event
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Earth science
Caldera: The Giant Cauldron Formed When the Ground Collapses
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