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Difference Between Product-Based and Service-Based Companies
In the business world, companies can be broadly classified into two categories: product-based and service-based. While both types of companies aim to generate revenue, their approach toward achieving this goal is significantly different. This article aims to explore the difference between product-based companies and service-based companies, their advantages and disadvantages, and the challenges they face.
By Ishita Juneja4 years ago in Education
Our Nearest Star
The Sun is a massive, luminous ball of gas with a diameter of approximately 1.39 million kilometers (864,938 miles), primarily composed of hydrogen (about 74% of its mass) and helium (about 24% of its mass), with trace amounts of other elements. It is the closest star to Earth and is the center of our solar system. The Sun's energy is produced through a process called nuclear fusion, in which hydrogen atoms combine to form helium, releasing a tremendous amount of energy in the process. The Sun's energy sustains life on Earth, providing light and heat that drive weather patterns, photosynthesis, and other essential processes. The Sun's magnetic field also plays a crucial role in protecting Earth from harmful cosmic radiation.
By Captain Kidd4 years ago in Education
How Uncertainty Can Impair Our Ability to Make Rational Decisions
We make decisions every day, many of which are so straightforward that we hardly notice we are making them. But we tend to struggle when faced with decisions that have uncertain outcomes, such as during the pandemic. Cognitive scientists have long been interested in understanding how people make such uncertain decisions. Now our research, published in November 2021 in the journal JAMA Network Open, gives a clue.
By BURN BRIGHT4 years ago in Education
How Designers Engineer Luck Into Video Games
On Sept. 16, 2007, a Japanese YouTuber who goes by the handle “Computing Aesthetic” uploaded a forty-eight-second-long video with the deafening title, “ULTRA MEGA SUPER LUCKY SHOT.” The video shows a high-scoring shot in Peggle, a vastly popular video game, loosely based on Japanese pachinko machines, in which a ball bearing clatters down the screen, accruing points as it bounces through a crowd of candy-colored pegs, which disappear shortly after being touched; more bounces, more points. Although Peggle involves some skill—before firing the ball, the player must carefully aim the launcher that dangles at the top of the screen—you are principally at the mercy of the luck of the bounce. In Computing Aesthetic’s footage, the points pile up as the ball bounces fortuitously between pegs. To underscore the seemingly miraculous shot, Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy” blares euphorically until, in the video’s final moments, the ball bearing sinks into the bucket at the base of the screen and the words “FEVER SCORE” flash onscreen. The description on the video, which has been watched nearly a quarter of a million times, reads, “I couldn’t balieve this when it happened!!!!!!!!!”
By BURN BRIGHT4 years ago in Education
The Pitfalls of the Pursuit of Happiness
In many cultures around the world, happiness is generally considered to be a positive emotion. But is the pursuit of happiness and “feeling happy” a good thing? Clinical psychologist June Gruber, social psychologist Iris B. Mauss, and researcher Maya Tamir looked into answering a related question: might happiness be dysfunctional at times? The short answer is: it depends.
By BURN BRIGHT4 years ago in Education
The “Chosen Ones” Choose Themselves
In 1994, a young woman asked for an order of restraint against her husband and filed for divorce. With no job and little money to live on, she signed up for welfare benefits so that she could afford to care for her baby daughter.
By BURN BRIGHT4 years ago in Education
Where Great Writers Are Made?
Introduction The world is full of aspiring writers, and many of them dream of making it big in the literary world. But where do great writers come from? Is there a secret formula or a particular place where writers are made? In this article, I will explore the different factors that contribute to the making of great writers.
By Chiara Landini4 years ago in Education
